Burpee Museum Art of the Earth - Mammoth Paper Puppet 1207

Enhance your visit to Burpee Museum with a 60 min art class on select days at the museum, 1 - 2pm.

COST:

Adult Non-Members 14+: $18, ($3 Plus $15 Admission)

Youth Non-Members 4 - 12: $16, ( $3 Plus $13 Admission)

Members: $2 (FREE admission)

Learn how artists and scientists can work together to create a visual representation of a time on Earth we have never seen before: Paleoart! Learn how to draw a T-rex or Allosaurus using modern models, skeletons, and research. Imagine a mammoth and learn how artists recreate amazing prehistoric worlds through sculpture, video, painting, and more! Classes are taught by Burpee Museum resident artists. Examine plants, skulls, and animals up close and learn techniques that bring nature to life in your art!

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Saturday December 7, 1 - 2 PM

A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. They lived from the late Miocene epoch (from around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. Mammoths are distinguished from living elephants by their (typically large) spirally twisted tusks and in at least some later species, the development of numerous adaptions to living in cold environments, including a thick layer of fur.

Mammoths are more closely related to Asian elephants than to African elephants. The oldest mammoth representative, , appeared around 6 million years ago during the late Miocene in what is now southern and Eastern Africa. Later in the Pliocene, by about three million years ago, mammoths dispersed into Eurasia, eventually covering most of Eurasia before migrating into North America around 1.5–1.3 million years ago, becoming ancestral to the Columbian mammoth (M. columbi). The woolly mammoth (M. primigenius) evolved about 700–400,000 years ago in Siberia, with some surviving on Russia's Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until as recently as 4,000 years ago, still extant during the existence of the earliest civilisations in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

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Basic supplies included in registration fee. Students should feel free to bring personal supplies they like to use. Each class lasts about 1 hour with guided instruction; however, students are welcome to stay longer and continue their work. Because admission is included in class fee, students should feel free to remain and explore the museum after class!

Host or Publisher Burpee Museum of Natural History