Family Saturdays
Family Events, October 10, 2009 through December 12, 2009
2:00pm to 3:30pm, every Saturday
2:00pm to 3:30pm, every Saturday
In keeping with the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery’s mission to foster interdisciplinary thinking and studying, to invite active and collaborative learning and to awaken the community to the richness and diversity of the human experience through the medium of art, we offer a series of family and adult programs.
More than 30 Family Saturday programs are offered each year in the fall, spring, and summer. These programs are designed to foster multi-generational creative cooperation. Each week we spend a little time in the galleries, focusing on a particular aspect of the exhibition. Just as with our school programs, we conduct discussions that allow the participants to find their own meaning in the artwork, rather than lecturing about it. We then spend an hour or more engaged in a hands-on art activity related to the artwork we have just seen. Children, parents, grandparents, and other adult companions all work on the same type of project, collaborating or working side-by-side on their own projects, proving over and over again that people of all ages have all the creativity they need to have a delightful time while making something extraordinary.
More than 30 Family Saturday programs are offered each year in the fall, spring, and summer. These programs are designed to foster multi-generational creative cooperation. Each week we spend a little time in the galleries, focusing on a particular aspect of the exhibition. Just as with our school programs, we conduct discussions that allow the participants to find their own meaning in the artwork, rather than lecturing about it. We then spend an hour or more engaged in a hands-on art activity related to the artwork we have just seen. Children, parents, grandparents, and other adult companions all work on the same type of project, collaborating or working side-by-side on their own projects, proving over and over again that people of all ages have all the creativity they need to have a delightful time while making something extraordinary.
Fall 2009
Family Saturdays Calendar
Tang Teaching Museum and Art GalleryOctober 10 – December 12, 2009
(No program November 28)
2-3:30pm
The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College presents a series of nine Family Saturday programs to accompany the work in our exhibitions this fall: Lives of the Hudson; and Arlene Shechet: Blow by Blow.
Held on Saturdays from October 10 to December 12 (except November 28), the programs include a brief tour followed by a hands-on art activity, with all materials provided.
The programs run from 2:00 – 3:30 PM, and are free and open to the public. Suitable for children ages 5 and up along with their adult companions, the Family Saturday programs are fun and educational.
Reservations are highly encouraged as space is limited and the programs are very popular. You may sign up for each program up to one week in advance.
For additional information and reservations, or to be added to our Family Saturday e-mail list, please call the Tang’s Visitor Service Desk at 580-8080.
If you have a reservation and have not arrived by 1:55 PM, your seats may be given to someone on the waiting list. Please let us know in advance if you have a reservation and find you cannot attend, so that we can give your places to other eager artists.
Programs are subject to change without notice.
October 10
Tissue-Paper Collage Rivers
After looking at images of the Hudson River in Lives of the Hudson, we will make tissue-paper collage rivers showing the waves and currents, with small birch-bark boats to sail upon them.
October 17
Celebration Day! Make Fantastic Fish!
No reservations required, drop by anytime from 2:00-3:30 with your family and make a School of Fantastic Fish together!
October 24
Bubbly Sculptures
Inspired by Arlene Shechet’s abstract ceramic sculptures in Blow By Blow, we will make sculptures out of bubble wrap and aluminum foil.
October 31
Halloween Art Project!
November 7
Drawing with Light on Dark
After talking about Kysa Johnson’s landscape drawn with white chalk on black paper in Lives of the Hudson, we will make our own imaginary landscape drawings using light-colored gel pencils on dark paper.
November 14
Log Jammin’!
We will discuss the use of the river for transportation, industry, and the moving of logs down the river, then make 3-D log jams out of corrugated cardboard and other materials.
November 21
Seventh Annual Potato Turkey Festival!
Believe it or not, this is our Seventh Annual Make-a-Turkey-Out-of-a-Potato Festival! We will make centerpieces out of potatoes, pipe-cleaners, feathers, and beads. Create a fantastic bird sculpture to decorate your table!
November 28
No Program This Week
December 5
Fish Sculptures
After looking at Bob Braine and Leslie Reed’s unusual fish sculptures in Lives of the Hudson, and discovering together what they are made from, we will make wild fish from a variety of unexpected materials.
December 12
Steamboat Wheels
We will look at the 8-foot diameter steering wheel taken from a real steamboat, The Mary Powell, then make some sparkling wheels that can double as holiday decorations if you like!