About Teen Programs

Teen Programs at the Getty Museum strive to celebrate the perspectives, voices, ideas, and experiences of young people, and to inspire them to actively contribute as creative thinkers. Through a spectrum of project-based, visual arts programming we work in community and in collaboration with one another. Our mission is to create spaces and programs for youth representation by committing to work and learn with BIPOC audiences who are underrepresented by and within arts institutions.

We do this by:

• Honoring the value and importance of art and interpretations made by young people and teens
• Addressing historical and contemporary occurrences of institutional exclusion by committing to creating opportunities for intentional inclusion
• Engaging with neighborhoods across Los Angeles with a particular focus on those that have been identified as having little to no arts programming
• Building connections with artists and arts professionals who activate the museum and its collections, from antiquity to contemporary art
• Applying a critical and analytical lens to the collection, to explore all that it is and all that it isn't
• Being responsive to potential barriers to participation through providing transportation, meals, and paid opportunities to ensure that interested young people can engage fully