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Making Art Together

Collaborative Window Collage

January 30th, 2017

Once a month we offer a drop-in project in addition to our ongoing Everyday Art Project. At one of these recent Special Sunday events we took inspiration from the landscape to create a collaborative installation exploring light and color. READ MORE

Remarkable Rainbow Collage

November 2nd, 2016

To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Brown Bear Turns 50! we spent five weeks in the Art Studio exploring collage techniques, and the colors within Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle. Focusing on one color at a time, we started experimenting with orange papers and worked our way backwards through the book to the brown of Brown Bear. READ MORE

Watercolor-Painted Collage Papers

August 5th, 2016

If you’re a parent or educator, hearing the name Eric Carle probably brings many colorful pictures mind. His iconic tissue paper collages are loved by many. We’ve come up with a few alternative materials and processes so that children and adults can have a fun and successful experience creating their own visually-textured collage papers. READ MORE

Nothing But Nonsense

March 22nd, 2016

Just how silly you can be? For the Studio's recent art activity, we are making black paper collages that could belong in Eric Carle?s new book, The Nonsense Show, with drawing tools and nonsensical clip art pictures.

March 14th, 2016

A mosaic is sort of like a puzzle: several smaller pieces, or tiles glued together to make one larger image. For a recent Every Day Art activity, guests created colorful mosaic patterns or pictures with shapes made from bumpy, squishy, soft and other textured materials.