Family Days at the Museum

Each Family Day event includes sessions from 12:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m., with engaging arts & crafts activities led by Museum Educator Elizabeth Vienneau.

Please note: the January and March events in this series will take place in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries; the February and April events will take place in the Walsh Gallery. Our Family Day series is inspired by the exhibition For Which It Stands... (for more information, click here).

Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom

What’s so “American” about American Impressionism? We’ll use Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 painting as a jumping-off point for a fun painting workshop in the American Impressionist style.

Regina A. Quick Center Lobby

Escape the chill and draw some comics with us! Participants will be guided to create a comic-strip-like depiction, either of a significant moment in American history,

or in their and their family's personal history.

Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom

Participants and family members will be invited to celebrate the flags of their family background by designing and creating a new flag that expresses their unique identity and heritage!

Regina A. Quick Center Lobby

Participants will be invited to bring their own materials and choose from the broad array of fabrics, single-use plastics, egg cartons, and the like, to create a unique 3D flag assemblage inspired by some of the contemporary artworks in the exhibition that use unconventional materials, from American military gear to native wildflowers. 

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