Families

Gallery+Studio: Torn Paper Portraits

Frank Moore’s exuberant paintings were part of the late artist’s wide-ranging practice exploring our capacity to connect with one another as people. Even his landscape paintings feel like portraits. Taking his soft-edged paintings as inspiration, use torn tissue paper to “paint” a portrait.
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Gallery+Studio: Found Object Sculpture

Rina Kimche’s sculptures are rich in their textures and earthy colors, and they look like fragments of other things–maybe pottery shards or parts of tools. After looking at some of her artworks in the gallery, experiment with a range of found objects collected by artist Natasha Loewy.
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Roundtable Reading: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street in Harlem, New York City. It’s practically another member of the family.
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Roundtable Reading: A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry

Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains, learning to hunt, competing with his brothers and sisters for hierarchy, and watching over a new litter of cubs. Then a rival pack attacks, and Swift and his family scatter. Alone and scared, Swift must flee and find a new home.
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Roundtable Reading: Honestly Elliott by Gillian McDunn

Elliott has a really full plate. He’s dealing with his parents’ divorce, his best friend moving away, not fitting in at his new school, and, on top of it all, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). His number one solace is cooking, where he can test new recipes and control the outcome.
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Gallery + Studio: Stories to Tell

Does your family have a special place or story, a favorite dish, unusual objects, or a beloved pet? Inspired by Amalia Mesa-Bains’s altars, re-create a family story, memory, or situation in a miniature altar of your own.
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Gallery + Studio: A Little Fluxusbook

Take a gallery tour to explore Alison Knowles’s many imaginative uses of the book form, and then create your own Fluxusbook from a combination of geometric forms, personal signifiers, poetic imagery, and secret codes.
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Gallery + Studio: A House of Imagination

Alison Knowles created A House of Dust by following a simple script and using a computer to fill in the words. Then she built a house based on this computer-generated poem!
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Art Making for Families / Creación artística para familias

Make art inspired by Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory with local artist Rebeca Flores. / Haz arte inspirado en la exposición, Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, con la artista Rebeca Flores.
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¡Roundtable Reading Bilingüe! Dancing Home/Nacer bailando by Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel Zubizarreta

Margie has finally convinced the other kids at school she is one-hundred percent American—just like them. But when her cousin Lupe visits from Mexico, the image she’s created crumbles. Things aren’t easy for Lupe, either. Mexico hasn’t felt like home since her father went North to find work.
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