Faith Ringgold, The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles (detail). Lithograph on paper.
Collection of Danforth Art, 1997.5. Gift of Leah Lipton.

Danforth Art Museum\School is committed to providing opportunities for creativity and imaginative exploration for children, teens, and adults, and for its museum and studio art school to be a community resource for all, regardless of income.

Upcoming Free Family Days take place on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day and Presidents’ Day. On Free Family Days, admission and all activities are free for all. Advanced registration is not required.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Free Family Day

Monday, January 18, 2016
12-5pm \ Free Admission & Activities
inspired by the exhibition The Memory Palace: Domesticity, Objects, and the Interior

  • 12-5pm Gallery Game: Find it! Follow clues to find objects in artwork on view
  • 12-4pm Art-Making: Collaborative Design Play Make mini origami furniture for a cardboard house constructed together
  • 12:30pm Family Tour of the exhibition
  • 1-4pm: Art-making: House Collage Use pages from a book to create a house collage
  • 1-4pm: Art-Making: Mini Wooden House Sculpture Inspired by the architectural elements of houses from around the world, make your own sculptural home out of wood
  • 1:30pm Story Time: A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
  • 3:30pm Story Time: A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams

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Presidents’ Day Not-Even-Bedtime Pajama Party

Monday, February 15, 2016
12-5pm \ Wear your pajamas and join us for Free Admission & Activities
inspired by the exhibition The Memory Palace: Domesticity, Objects, and the Interior

  • 12-5pm Gallery Game: Sleepy Eye Spy
  • 12:30pm Family Tour of the exhibition
  • 1-4pm Art-making: Design Your Own PJ’s Be a fashion designer and create a pajama collage with paper and cloth
  • 1-4pm Art-making: Bedside Table Still Life Create a watercolor of the bedside objects staged in our studios
  • 1:30pm Bedtime Yoga Join staff from The Yoga Leaf for a guided bedtime yoga session. Limited to the first 20 children (and their accompanying adults)
  • 2:30pm Bedtime Yoga Join staff from The Yoga Leaf for a guided bedtime yoga session. Limited to the first 20 children (and their accompanying adults)
  • 3:30pm Bedtime Stories Enjoy classic bedtime stories including Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

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Other Family Programs include

• Drop Into Art on the first Sunday of the month from October to May, led by Danforth Art staff, faculty,
and Teen Docents
• Family Days each year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, and other special holidays
• Free Fun Friday, sponsored by the Highland Street Foundation during the summer
• Family studio art workshops in clay, painting, and other media. See classes page for upcoming
family studio art workshops.

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