This imaginative project involves creating a mirror-image transfer and a watercolor-resist painting of your signature then decorated as a monster. Read More

This imaginative project involves creating a mirror-image transfer and a watercolor-resist painting of your signature then decorated as a monster. Read More

In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy and the work of artist Fred Wilson, create and share an example of juxtaposition through the combination of two found objects or images from online and/or your immediate surroundings. Read More

Bring your family together in a photo collage. Gather family members from across the generations in a group photo collage that will not damage your original photographs in this step-by-step art-making activity. Read More

Involve the whole family and boost your fall decorations with this art-making project inspired by the Spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden   Read More

Express yourself and share your talent through writing, drawing, mixed media, dance, or spoken word with a new weekly prompt from NOMA. Read More

Create a positive message in your community with this Word Power activity. Read More

Create a paper quilt square and ask your family members, friends, or neighbors to contribute to it. Read More

With inspiration from NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden, make a small drawing and then replicate it in a larger scale. Read More

Identify distinctive shapes in sculptures from NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden and create a shape collage using found household items and pictures. Read More

Create a self-portrait on paper from collaged materials using your hand as a representation of your body. Read More

What do you see when you look at this sculpture by artist Will Ryman? A club house? A log cabin? A home? This is a big sculpture that we are allowed to step inside. And although the inside may look different than your house, it is a place that provides shelter. A neighborhood is a… Read More

Louisiana artist Lin Emery creates kinetic sculptures from reflective materials. Wave, installed in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, relies on forces of nature—wind and gravity—to go with the flow.  In a play on the reflective nature of Wave, this activity asks you to reflect on the things that inspire gratitude for you. Before… Read More

Create your own breathing wand—a fun tool to help you take three deep breaths developed by community partner Project Peaceful Warriors. Materials Pipe cleaner Feather Beads Make Take your pipe cleaner and twist one end around the bottom of the feather. Add three beads to the pipe cleaner. Make a loop at the bottom of… Read More

Artists utilize color to create expression in works of art. Artist Joan Miró painted this abstract image of a “young girl” using organic shapes and a range of bold colors. Perhaps it was someone he knew and how he saw them in an extension of his imagination? In this activity, you will make a mixed-media… Read More

All around the world, people make art and utilitarian objects out of clay. For this activity, we are going to make a salt dough that will behave a bit like clay. Salt dough is cheap and easy to make. When baked in the oven on very low heat, the dough becomes hard and can be… Read More

Dig into the textures and colors of your home to create a decorative tassel inspired by Brindaban Pink by Louisiana sculptor Lynda Benglis. Adults, this one’s for you! All-ages art-making activity Sculptor Lynda Benglis is best known for her pioneering abstract works that capture materials in action like poured latex or dripped wax, pulled and… Read More