Education at Park Avenue Armory

Education at Park Avenue Armory engages students from the community and the New York City public school system in the Armory’s programs and seeks to foster interest in the arts, architecture, renovation, preservation, and American history. Through cross disciplinary programming, students may participate in both the historic aspect of the Armory as well as original programming produced in all artistic disciplines throughout the year.

Christian Boltanski Educational Programming

French artist Christian Boltanski will create a monumental new work, No Man’s Land, for Park Avenue Armory’s soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, filling the space with thousands of pieces of discarded clothing and a soundtrack of reverberating heartbeats. This installation will be Boltanski’s largest and most ambitious project ever staged in the United States—an affecting and poetic spectacle that explores concepts of human identity, memory, and loss.

Saturday Arts at the Armory

Saturdays May 15, May 22, May 29

Families with children ages 6-11 are invited to explore No Man’s Land in our “Armory Art Detective” session that will encourage careful observation, reflection, dialogue, and art-making to provide a deeper investigation of the installation. Sessions will begin at 12:30pm and 1:30pm and families will work through a series of stations at their own pace. Activities will include:

• A teaching artist guiding families in the construction of a collage artwork
• Children having the opportunity to record their own heartbeat
• Participants working with a teaching artist to create their very own performance poetry

$15 per family; includes all materials and admission to the installation
FREE for Park Avenue Armory Members

Pre-registration is required and space is limited. CLICK HERE to register.

Weekday Arts at the Armory

On weekdays when the exhibit is open, secondary student class groups will be invited to visit the Armory, view the exhibit and participate in a workshop led by one of several of NYC’s most sought after teaching artists. Participating classroom teachers will be sent curriculum materials designed to enhance their students’ experience with the exhibit.

For further details, please contact the Armory at artseducation@armoryonpark.org