Seattle Art Museum Teens

05/02/2025

Get ready for an epic Teen Night Out! Join us on May 9th from 7–10 PM for a night full of fun, friends, and good vibes — exclusively for teens!

04/18/2025

Mini field trip anyone? 🌸

04/04/2025

Thank you to everyone who showed up to our zine making event. We hope you enjoyed the ones made by TAG and your personal ones!!!
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03/22/2025

Thank you to for having us for the Teen Action Fair today! TAG had a blast!!!

03/07/2025

🗣️📣 What would you like to scream? We want to hear it!

SAM’s Teen Arts Group (TAG) is now accepting youth art submissions for their upcoming exhibition, “[REDACTED]!” This is an exhibition for unique self-expression that defies expectations and challenges censorship. Have something the world isn’t ready to hear? Now is the time to channel it through art.

Submissions will be accepted through April 13. Selected artworks will be on display in our Seattle Asian Art Museum's Community Gallery from May 27 to September 17.

To learn more and apply, follow the link below!
https://forms.gle/6E38tY6MmhU3BUzJ6

12/02/2024

✨ Join us on Dec. 5 for a night of creativity and fun! ✨

SAM’s Teen Arts Group invites you to learn the art of beaded coasters with the amazing , whose vibrant work connects beautifully to our Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams exhibition. Let’s get crafty at The Brotman Forum from 5:30–7 PM. Don’t miss it! 🎨 ”

11/03/2023

🌊 TAG takes "making waves" to a new level!

This week the Teen Arts Group (TAG) had a chance to explore SAM's new special exhibition "Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence"! Ramzy Lakos, Educator for Digital Learning, gave the team a behind-the-scenes look at the Make Your Own Woodblock Print digital interactive and encouraged the group to hold woodblocks of the iconic Great Wave. TAG members were eagerly sketching and gathering inspiration from the show; "why" you might ask? Because the group will be creating their very own woodblocks next week!

Stay tuned for a fun and thought-provoking addition to 's new TAG Talks series as one of our TAG members reflects on their visit to the exhibition and their experience crafting a one-of-a-kind woodblock print!
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[📸 .tina]

04/29/2022

Teen Night Out is one week away! What can you expect to see at this exclusive party made for teens, by teens? Live figure drawing, a photo booth, endless sweets, a recycled fashion pop-up, an open mic, and more! No RSVP is necessary and this event is free to all high school aged youth—we'll see you there!

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[📸 Jen Au]

04/27/2022

The biggest party made for teens, by teens is BACK! Mark your calendars for May 6 at 7 pm and make the trip to SAM for Teen Night Out. This action-packed night is open only to high school aged teens and will feature art-making activities, musical performances, a photo booth, delicious treats, and more. We can't wait to welcome you all back to SAM!
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04/20/2022

In her memoir "Just Kids", Patti Smith explores the naivete of feeling as if you know everything, but truly not knowing anything at all. To be a part of an inseparable connection with another human through the lens of art and the love that comes with it. While Smith explored youth through becoming immersed within the New York City art scene, you have your own unique experience that we want to see through your art. The Teen Arts Group at the Seattle Art Museum invites you to vulnerably reflect on what being a kid means to you– with all its vivid emotions of beauty, love, pain, and hope. We seek submissions that intimately express your experience growing up and where you want to go in this life. What moments in life have shaped you? What do you so intensely yearn for?

We are accepting artworks done on canvas and paper from artists between the ages of thirteen and twenty within the greater Seattle area. The exhibition will be on view from May 25th to September 4th at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, with more details for art drop-off to come. The first few people who submit and those whose art we choose to display will receive a fifteen-dollar BLICK gift card. We look forward to seeing everyone's artwork! Submissions are due May 8th.

Apply by using the QR code or by clicking “Call for art” on the link tree in our biography!
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[“Patti Smith with Doves,” Robert Mapplethorpe, 1979, gelatin silver print, 20cm x 25 cm., Untitled photo of Patti Smith by unknown photographer, 1977.]

04/14/2022

Applications for the 2022-2023 Teen Arts Group are now open. Head to the link in our bio to learn more and apply!

Deadline May 16

07/03/2019

The 5th Avenue Theatre is opening its doors to student groups this summer for a special free matinee performance of "West Side Story!" Get out this summer and take advantage of this great offer July 11 at 10:30 am!

Rising Star Project: West Side Story A Summer Matinee Performance for Teens, Student Groups, and Families