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Magical Masks at Family Art Labs!
Not only is spring finally here, but we had a great turnout for Saturday’s Family Art Lab, Magical Masks! This workshop took families on an exploration of Tibetan Masks through a mini presentation, a journey through the galleries, and an art-making … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family
Tagged Art Making, Education, Education Center, Families, Family, Family Art Labs, family learning, Family Programs, look deeply, Mask-making, Masks, Painting, storytelling, think deeply, Tibet, Tibetan Masks
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Cool Culture Family Day at the Rubin!
Over the weekend Family Programs held our spring Family Day with Cool Culture. We worked hard the past few months preparing for the event, and were finally rewarded in a fun and successful day! The families of Little Star … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family, Museums, Outreach, Uncategorized
Tagged Art Making, community, Cool Culture, Education, Education Center, Family, family day, family learning, Four Friends, gallery tours, Gateway to Himalayan Art, Partnership, storytelling
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Celebrating Holi and Color at Yak Packers!
Each Spring, many Hindus in India and Nepal celebrate the festival of Holi. Holi is a festival of color, celebrating the coming of Spring. This year Holi will fall on Wednesday, March 27th. Here in Family Programs, we decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family, Himalayan Art, Museums, Uncategorized
Tagged Art Making, Buddha, color, community, early childhood, Education, Education Center, Family, family learning, feel deeply, finger painting, holi, holi festival, holi nyc, India, Painting, think deeply, yak packers
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Tibetan Felting at Family Art Labs!
I have been hearing about how cool felting is since I began my work here at the Rubin Museum (back in September 2012). I learned how to felt through a mini workshop with my fellow coworkers and was very inspired by … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family, Museums, Uncategorized
Tagged Art Labs, Art Making, Education Center, Family, Family Art Labs, family learning, feel deeply, felt, felting, Gallery, Gateway to Himalayan Art, Tibet, Tradition Transformed
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Collaborative Sand Mandalas at Family Art Labs!
Nemo who!? Despite blizzard conditions over the weekend, Family Art Labs was in full swing. We had a small, yet brave group of families who trudged through the snow to help us begin the celebration of Losar (the Tibetan New … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family, Museums, Uncategorized
Tagged Buddha, drawing, Education, Education Center, Family, Family Art Labs, Gateway to Himalayan Art, look deeply, Losar, Mandala, Mandalas, Sand Mandalas, think deeply, Tibet
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Saturday Family Art Lab Puppeteering Workshop!
It’s January already!? Another year has come and the Family Programs team has just finished hosting our monthly Saturday Family Art Lab. This month’s theme was Shadow Puppets, a personal favorite of mine. We began the workshop by discussing the … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family, Himalayan Art, Museums, Uncategorized
Tagged Art Labs, Education, Education Center, Family, family day, Family Programs, feel deeply, Gallery, gallery tours, Gateway to Himalayan Art, look deeply, Saturdays, storytelling
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Green Greetings at Saturday Family Art Labs! (Family Programs in Action)
On the second Saturday of each month, the Family Programs team hosts a Saturday Family Art Lab. Each month has a different theme and December’s was Green Greetings! During this Art Lab, families came together to make eco-friendly holiday cards … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Education Center, Gateway to Himalayan Art
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Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University
A few weeks ago I attended Brown commencement as a guest, and I was blown away by the new Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. If you’ve never been to Brown University, it’s as New England-y as … Continue reading
Introducing the Education Center at the Rubin Museum
Designed by Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, this new two-floor, five-thousand-square-foot space includes an art studio, commons room, seminar room, and display space for student art and the museums study collection. The design supports and enhances the educational … Continue reading
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Thresholds
Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus’dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th’ Almighty Maker … Continue reading
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Tagged Education Center, Ganesha, John Milton, Paradise Lost, planning, reflection, students, Teachers, transitions
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