Family Workshops


Saturday, November 7 10 am- 12 noon
Do you want to be a sculptor?
Come to the Museum and be a sculptor!  Explore our current exhibit and use your imagination to make a sculpture of your own.  Work with many of the same materials that exhibiting artists use and give life to your project with found and recycled materials

 Where: Art Museum of the Americas
201 18th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20006
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When: Saturday, November 7
from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon

Cost: $5 per participant / reservation required

reservations and info:

aospinaj@oas.org or (202) 458-3362

Saturday, August 1, 2009

10 am - 12 noon
Building with Bricks Family Workshop
Art Museum of the Americas
201 18th Street, NW 
Washington, DC 20006

$5 per participant (reservations required)
Reservations and information:   
aospinaj@oas.org  or (202) 458-3362

Come and explore the Museum’s current exhibit Rogelio Salmona: open spaces / collective spaces, and learn the secrets of bricks.  How are they used?  What are they made of?  What makes them stick together?  Use your know-how to build your own house with real miniature bricks that you mold from modeling dough.


O
ngoing Programs
As part of our educational programs, we invite you to participate in interactive workshops, where participants learn traditions of the Americas through hands-on activities.  

Create a piñata,
a corn husk doll, or a carnival mask!

Piñata (recommended for ages 4 to 12)
Corn Husk Dolls (recommended for 7 to 14)
Carnival Cast Mask (recommended for ages 12 to 14)

Workshops are scheduled by appointment, from Tuesday to Friday, for groups of 8-20, and cost $5 per participant.

To make an appointment or for more information contact aospinaj@oas.org  


past workshop video clips now online! click here to view videos!

click here to view past workshop archives!






the disappeared family workshop, february 2009



trash and treasure, april 2009

 


see what we do at family workshops!  here are a few photos from past workshops:


building the city of your dreams, september 2008


weaving baskets, a haitian tradition, june 2009



weaving baskets, a haitian tradition, june 2009


tap-tap family workshop,  june 2009


tap-tap family workshop,  june 2009