Storytelling and Playing with Light
Ryan Murray from Guest Services at The Carle has been noticing guests create in the galleries this spring and wrote a blog post to share with us. Read more to see what has been happening in the galleries!
Our recent 15th anniversary exhibit, Treasures from the Collection: A Fifteen Year Celebration, held numerous stories. For our interactive part of the exhibition, Let’s Tell A Story, we invited guests to create one of their own.
Using colored pencils, crayons and notecards, they could write words or draw pictures prompted by basic storybook phrases such as “Once upon a time, there was a…”
In addition, there was an option to create a “wild card” which could go under any prompt.
If someone drew a dragon, could that card become “Once upon a time, there was a dragon”? Or “In search of a dragon”? Guests could also rearrange existing cards to create something really wacky!
In The Art of Eric Carle: Night, guests created images through the use of light.
Photograph by Jim Gipe/Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Our exhibition team created light tables with pegboard on top for guests to play with. People placed the different colored pegs in the holes, allowing light to shine through in different colors and patterns, resembling stars of the night sky.
Photograph by Jim Gipe/Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Photograph by Jim Gipe/Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Photograph by Jim Gipe/Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Photograph by Jim Gipe/Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
They could also press their hands against a panel which would leave imprints known as “moon shadows”. This was a great sensory experience that was a big hit among guests of all ages!
Photograph by Jim Gipe/Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
We look forward to more interactive opportunities in our next exhibit The Art of Eric Carle: Seasons!
