Bring your little ones (ages 1–2) to Art for Tots! This month, we’ll explore textures in Isamu Noguchi’s sculptures and even try making art with our feet. Enjoy a relaxed experience in the galleries, along with tips for exploring museum spaces with young children. Program registration includes full museum admission.

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.

Join us for Art for Tots, crafted for children ages 3–4 and their caregivers! This month, dive into Noguchi's textured sculptures and discover how we can create art with our feet. Registration includes museum admission. Sign-ups open at 9 am!

Families with children ages 5–11 are welcome to join us for gallery conversations and hands-on art-making in the Education Studio! This month, dive into Isamu Noguchi’s mixed-media sculptures and explore how art transforms materials and shapes into dynamic, body-inspired forms.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and Climate Week 2024 with a community poetry event! Hear readings from Arte en el Noguchi participants, featuring poems from Claudia Prado's "Entering a Forest" workshop. Explore themes of nature and heritage through evocative texts. No registration required—just join us for this inspiring celebration!

Teachers and educators are invited to an exclusive reception and private tours of Against Time: The Noguchi Museum 40th Anniversary Reinstallation. Explore over 60 works by Isamu Noguchi, from 1930s portrait busts to 1940s interlocking sculptures, plus unrealized designs for monuments and playgrounds. Learn about Noguchi’s life and the museum's reinstallation while discovering educational programs and academic partnerships for all grade levels. Don’t miss this chance to deepen your understanding and enrich your teaching resources!

Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present a series of live concerts in the Museum’s first floor galleries. Doors at 3 pm; performances start at 3:30 pm. Tickets include full access to the Museum.

Visitors of all ages are invited to learn more about Isamu Noguchi’s Akari light sculptures and explore their own designs in the Education Studio (Level C). No advanced registration is required.

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 en el estudio de un taller de arte creando conexiones con su vida.

On second Saturdays in summer 2024, join us for free admission days with special programming to celebrate “love and labor” and solidarity with the AANHPI community. Advance reservations are recommended; visitors without a reservation will also be welcomed 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 en el estudio de un taller de arte creando conexiones con su vida.

Join us for a free, virtual art-making workshop that closely examines scenes from Distance Noguchi.

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.