April School Vacation Week

Learn how to stage self-portraits at home and how artists have long used self-portraits as various forms of self-expression.

Best for ages 8 and up. 

In this activity, we’ll be folding small boxes and then filling them with images, ideas, or words that relate to the things we hold dear to us. All that is required is knowing what you love, a little creativity, and a few basic materials!.

Explore Carrie Moyer’s “Intergalactic Emoji Factory” using movement as a way to connect with the lines and expressive paint layers in this artwork. Movement helps us look at artwork in new and different ways.

Recommended for ages 2–8, and the young at heart.

Use your senses to examine Monet’s The Seine at Vétheuil and come up with a list of descriptive words. Then, use these words to create a haiku poem meant to be shared with someone.

Recommended for ages 6 and up.

Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe talk about collaboration as being fun, playful, and experimental. In this activity, you will work with another artist to create two collaborative drawings. You will use a window in your home as a way to observe and frame life outside.

Ages 5 and up. 

Dahlov Ipcar’s Blue Savanna is full of animals! Each of these creatures is doing something; some are running, some are jumping, and some are making animal sounds. Take some time to look at this amazing painting, and see if you can answer the questions below.

Best for ages 3–8

Try three different writing activities based on Jeffrey Gibson’s PEOPLE LIKE US.

Best for ages 6 and up