• Students gather at The House of Dust, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA, 1971; Courtesy of California Institute of the Arts, Institute Archives.


Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under


Gallery + Studio: A House of Imagination

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

  • Workshop led by
    Erin McCluskey Wheeler

    Erin McCluskey Wheeler is an artist and writer based in Richmond, CA. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and currently works as a studio facilitator at NIAD Art Center.

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! Using the same structure, compose a poem from random pieces and then draw, design, and build a small model house inspired by your poem.