Families with children ages 5–11 are invited to participate in conversations in the galleries and art-making activities in the Education Studio (Level C). This month, explore the sensations of sound and touch in Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within and consider how our senses connect us to land and earth.

This session of Art for Tots is designed for preschool toddlers ages 3–4 and their caregivers. Explore artworks in the galleries and strategies for navigating museum spaces with young ones.

This month we’ll look at colorful ceramics created by artist Toshiko Takaezu, and use fruits and vegetables to create our own edible paints and dyes.* Advance registration is required. The program registration includes full admission to the Museum.

土曜日の３時から日本語でのツアーを実施します。

ツアーは会話型で美術館の常設展、特別展の中から選ばれた数点の作品に焦点を当てて、イサム・ノグチの生涯、作品観について探索します。ノグチ自身が来館者の観点から作品見ることに興味があったことを踏まえて、参加者は自身の所見や解釈を共有し、会話に参加することが勧められます。

Public tours in Japanese take place on select Saturdays at 3 pm. Tours are conversational and explore select works in the Museum’s collection and exhibitions while introducing the life and vision of Isamu Noguchi. In keeping with Noguchi’s interest in the visitor’s personal experience of the Museum, groups will be encouraged to share their observations and interpretations throughout the course of the tour.

Recorridos públicos del museo en español ocurren los primeros viernes de cada mes a las 1 pm. Entrada al museo es gratis cada primer viernes.

Los recorridos del museo son conversacional y exploran obras seleccionadas de la colección mientras se presenta la visión del artista Isamu Noguchi. En acuerdo con el interés de Noguchi a la experiencia personal de cada visitante, alentamos a los participates que compartan sus observaciones e interpretaciones durante el recorrido.

On the first Friday of every month, Museum admission is free. Advance reservations are highly recommended. Visitors without a reservation will be admitted based on museum capacity.

Tickets for Free First Friday are released two weeks before each date. Please contact tickets@noguchi.org with any questions.

This session of Art for Tots is designed for preschool toddlers ages 3–4 and their caregivers. Explore artworks in the galleries and strategies for navigating museum spaces with young ones.

This month we’ll look at colorful ceramics created by artist Toshiko Takaezu, and use fruits and vegetables to create our own edible paints and dyes.* Advance registration is required. The program registration includes full admission to the Museum.

Join us for a free, virtual art-making workshop that closely examines scenes from Distance Noguchi. These films feature spaces in The Noguchi Museum captured from a fixed perspective over several hours, with light shifting in real time and nature actively interacting with sculpture. Learn introductory drawing techniques and then settle into a flow while creating a long sketch. Reflect on your drawings and discuss the integration between art, space, and time.

Materials: Pencils, an eraser, and paper. Previous drawing experience is not necessary.

Families with children ages 5–11 are invited to participate in conversations in the galleries and art-making activities in the Education studio (Level C). This month, we will use clay to explore the visual and tactile textures of Isamu Noguchi’s sculptures.

Space is limited and advance registration is required. The program registration includes Museum admission. Family programs are free for members at the Family level and above, SNAP benefits recipients with EBT card or WIC card, and members of Cool Culture.

Families with children of all ages are invited to explore the galleries and engage in a related art-making activity in the Education studio (Level C). Families are encouraged to work together to explore themes connected to the art on view.

Free with admission; no RSVP required. Please join before 1:30 pm if you are participating.

On February 18, admission is free in commemoration of Day of Remembrance and the 82nd anniversary of Executive Order 9066, authorized by president Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II to evacuate and incarcerate Japanese citizens and American citizens of Japanese heritage living in the Western United States.

Join an extended conversation about Isamu Noguchi’s sculpture Lunar Infant (1944), on view on the second floor in the exhibition A Glorious Bewilderment.

Free, as part of Free First Friday. Advance registration is not required.

Families with children of all ages are invited to explore the galleries with an activity worksheet and engage in a related art-making project in the Education studio (Level C). Families are encouraged to work together to explore themes connected to the art on view.

Free with admission; no RSVP required. Please join before 1:30 pm if you are participating.

Explore the words, texts, and archival documents of Isamu Noguchi and use writing as a tool for engaging with Noguchi’s sculptures. Free with admission; advance registration is not required.

Families with children ages 5–11 are invited to participate in conversations in the galleries and art-making activities in the Education studio. This month, explore the connections between the work of Isamu Noguchi and experimental filmmaker Marie Menken, and create prints that play with shape and shadow.

This session of Art for Tots is designed for preschool toddlers ages 3–4 and their caregivers. Explore artworks in the galleries and strategies for navigating museum spaces with young ones.

Families with children ages 5–11 are invited to participate in conversations in the galleries and art-making activities in the education studio. This month, we’ll look at the connection between art and design in Isamu Noguchi’s work and create designs for everyday objects such as a lamp, table, or bench.

Space is limited and advance registration is required.

Visitors of all ages are invited to explore resources related to Isamu Noguchi and the Museum in the Education Studio (Level C).

At 12 pm and 4 pm, join us for screenings of Isamu Noguchi (1972), a 30-minute documentary film by Michael Blackwood that illuminates Noguchi’s unique perspective on the way we as individuals and as a collective society exist in time.

Families with children of all ages are invited to explore the galleries with an activity worksheet and engage in a related art-making project in the education studio (Level C). Families are encouraged to work together to explore themes connected to the art on view.

Coinciding with a special installation in the Museum Shop of Isamu Noguchi’s tri-tone Prismatic Tables, we’ll create paper models exploring the design possibilities of folded shape, form, and pattern.

Families with children ages 5–11 are invited to participate in conversations in the galleries and art-making activities in the education studio.

This month, we’ll look at the textures in Isamu Noguchi’s landscape sculptures and create a collage inspired by a place that brings you peace.

Guitarist Brandon Ross and bassist Stomu Takeishi are both longtime veterans of New York City’s creative music scene. Over the course of their long collaboration, the duo have developed a unique dialogue and timbral language for guitar and bass. In Living Lovers’s music poses questions: physical, philosophical, and sonic—all while inviting the listener to participate in an intimate conversation.

Families with children of all ages are invited to explore artworks by Isamu Noguchi in the galleries and participate in art-making activities in the education studio (Level C). No registration is required for this drop-in program.

On the first Friday of every month, Museum admission is free. Advance reservations are highly recommended. Visitors without a reservation will be admitted based on museum capacity.

At Socrates Sculpture Park (32-01 Vernon Blvd)

Free with advance registration

Connect with nature through art making in a series of hands-on workshops led by Noguchi Educators at nearby Socrates Sculpture Park. These workshops are open to all ages and any skill level. Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. All participants will be given a free pass to visit The Noguchi Museum after the program.

Learn introductory drawing techniques, and then settle into a flow while creating a long sketch. This monthly series feature spaces from The Noguchi Museum where light shifts and nature actively interacts with sculpture.

Materials: Pencils, an eraser, and paper. Previous drawing experience is not necessary.

All registrants will be sent a link to participate through Zoom. Participants should have access to a computer, smart phone, or tablet with a microphone, camera, and internet access.

Visitors of all ages are invited to pick up art materials from our educators, and explore Isamu Noguchi’s work through art-making in the galleries. In this session, explore Noguchi’s sheet metal sculptures and experiment with folding paper to understand his process.

Families with children of all ages are invited to take inspiration from the element of wind in Isamu Noguchi’s artwork and construct colorful paper kites. This program coincides with a special presentation of works by Kite House Magoji in the Museum Shop.

On the first Friday of every month, Museum admission is free. Advance reservations are highly recommended. Visitors without a reservation will be admitted based on museum capacity.

Les esperamos los miércoles por la mañana durante el verano, para disfrutar una serie de Talleres gratuitos de arte en español para toda la familia dirigidos por la artista Sol Aramendi. Pasaremos tiempo explorando las galerías y el jardín del museo. Y podrán participar de un taller de arte en el estudio creando conexiones con su vida.

Join The Noguchi Museum for an evening of community celebration, featuring a meditative percussion piece by Hisham Akira Bharoocha, tours, and art-making activities inspired by the theme of peace.

Learn introductory drawing techniques, and then settle into a flow while creating a long sketch. This monthly series feature spaces from The Noguchi Museum where light shifts and nature actively interacts with sculpture.

Materials: Pencils, an eraser, and paper. Previous drawing experience is not necessary.

All registrants will be sent a link to participate through Zoom. Participants should have access to a computer, smart phone, or tablet with a microphone, camera, and internet access.