POP ART Summer Program
Led by Hally McGehean at Tuxedo Park School
for rising 6th through 9th graders from all schools
June 16 - 27 2025
Monday - Friday
9am - 3 pm
Do you know the artist Andy Warhol and his Campbell’s Soup cans?
Have you seen Keith Haring’s bold outlined figures?
Or Roy Lichtenstein’s giant comics?
How about Yayoi Kusama’s dots?
All of these artists came out of the Pop Art movement, a genre of art that emerged from the United States and Britain in the 1950s and exploded over subsequent decades. Pop Art uses imagery from popular culture; sometimes to celebrate it, sometimes to critique it, and sometimes to do both.
In this workshop, open to rising 6th through 9th graders from Tuxedo Park and beyond, we will celebrate and critique popular culture - music, fashion, sports, and celebrity - using all the images found in magazines like photo editorials, text, and advertisements. We will curate and collage images from magazines in order to make different, and more 3-dimensional works with them such as laminated mosaics, rings of things, and wooden nesting dolls. Each artist will take their accomplishments home with them at the end of the 2-week session.
Materials and snacks will be provided. Students should bring a packed lunch and a water bottle.
About Your Program Leader
Hally McGehean first became enamored with pop art when she was a rising 6th grader. At the time, she also happened to be performing in a Broadway show and was often invited to the storied Studio 54 nightclub where she fell in love with everything shiny, mirrored, and jewel-toned in pop culture. Since then, she has created work for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Barack Obama Presidential Center, the Boston Children’s Museum, La Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Westport Arts Gallery, and the Agora and Christin Tierney Galleries in Chelsea, NYC. Her clients include Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Brandon Maxwell, Nicola Formichetti, Judith Jamison, Jacques D’Amboise, and Molly Ringwald. Her debut runway show of dresses on the High Line was named one of the highlights of New York Fashion Week by Entertainment Weekly.
Hally studied philosophy at Columbia University and Shakespeare at the British American Drama Academy, Balliol College, Oxford.
Most importantly, she is Henry Mann’s mom, a rising 7th grader at Tuxedo Park School.
