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Laguna Art Museum offers a wide variety of educational programming year-round for all ages.
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Educational Events
In conjunction with its exhibitions, the museum offers many informative, interactive, and educational lectures and workshops throughout the year. Programmed events are free to members and free to non-members with paid admission. Please check the museum’s website periodically for information on upcoming lectures with experts and curators, workshops with artists, and hands-on art activities for families.
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School Tours
The museum offers interactive exhibition tours led by a trained docent for all grade levels. Additionally, in March, April, and May of each year, the museum offers a special tour program for third and fourth grade classes that is connected directly to the local and state history curriculum. This special program connects California history to the museum’s California-focused permanent collection and current exhibitions, encourages careful observation of art, and emphasizes the elements of art and principles of design.
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Other Tours
The museum offers interactive exhibition tours led by a trained docent for all groups. Contact the museum two weeks in advance to schedule a school or group tour of the museum’s exhibitions. Docents are also available for walk-in tours every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 2:00 p.m. beginning one week after an exhibition opens to the public. Walk-in tours are free for museum members, and free for non-members with paid admission.
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Young Artists Society Gallery
The Young Artists Society Gallery is a museum gallery space that features exhibitions of K-12 works of art from Orange County schools. Students in Young Artists Society Gallery exhibitions receive recognition and value for participating in artistic activities and are introduced to the inner-workings of the museum. This program provides a direct connection between the student artists, their families, and Laguna Art Museum. It also gives students and special education groups the chance to see their work on display in a museum.
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Internship Opportunities
Laguna Art Museum offers volunteer internships for college students and recent college graduates. Applicants can apply for internships in the following departments: Curatorial, Education, Marketing/Public Relations, Membership, Collections, Events, and Development. Curatorial, collections, and education applicants should have a background in art history, studio art, or museum studies and all applicants should possess general clerical skills and organizational abilities. Although interns are assigned to a specific department, Laguna Art Museum endeavors to expose its interns to the complete inner-workings of the museum. Thus interns will participate in various projects interdepartmentally and have the opportunity to actively observe and participate in many areas of the museum’s operations.
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Docent Corps
The Laguna Art Museum Docent Corps serve as ambassadors to the arts by providing interactive tours for visitors and school groups. Docents seek to engage museum visitors through discussion about the art in the rotating exhibitions. The Docent Corps is a highly trained group dedicated to working with the community to increase its understanding of the visual arts.