Dripped watercolor paint creating pools of color
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Making Art Together

The Art Studio facilitates creative projects for all ages. Join us as we share materials, ideas, and reflections.

A young guest explores glue and its sticky qualities.
A colorful tissue-paper-collage mountain across three panels of windows.
Collage Nature

Collaborative Window Collage

Check out how we created a collaborative installation exploring light and color.
Eight cardboard puppet theaters attached to a display wall, each with a different colored background inside.
Infants and Toddlers Nature Sculpture Theory and Resources

The Lifecycle of a Cardboard Box

We are always fascinated to see how many ways we can use cardboard!
A table and floor covered in black and white paper with colorful stickers on it.
Infants and Toddlers Theory and Resources

Sticker Play

Explore stickers and masking tape with young learners.
An adult and child working together to construct a tower sculpture.
Sculpture

Jamie’s Special Sunday: Fantastical Far Away Places

Create found material sculptures inspired by land and cityscapes.
A wall covered in colorful collages on white background papers.
Collage Theory and Resources

Remarkable Rainbow Collage

Explore how we created an evolving collage installation.
An adult and two children smiling as they reach into a mystery texture box.
Collage Drawing

The Art of Surprise

Explore how surprise can be used as inspiration for artmaking.
Young children standing and painting with black paint on the floor using long brushes.
Drawing Infants and Toddlers Painting

Music, Motion, and Marks: Oil Pastels and Long Paintbrushes

Explore painting and drawing to music with infants and toddlers.
Two people sitting at an Art Studio table with the Brown Bear endpaper display wall behind them.
Collage Painting

Brown Bear Turns 50: Picture Book Endpapers Display Wall

The Art Studio team creates a large-scale installation inspired by Eric Carle’s endpapers.
A black piece of paper painted with red, yellow, & blue with stencils, and black & white splatters.
Painting Printmaking

Stencil and Paint Experiment Workshop

Inspired by Jon Klassen’s illustrations, experiment with printmaking techniques to create your own layered prints.
An adult and child smiling and holding up their circle-stamped paper.
Drawing Sculpture

Art Olympics

Step aside Rio – The Art Olympics, with events including stamping, drawing, sculpting, and even flying, is going for the gold!
Four watercolor-painted tracing papers stacked on top of each other in the colors red, yellow, blue, and green.
Collage Drawing Painting Printmaking Theory and Resources

Watercolor-Painted Collage Papers

Create your own textured papers inspired by Eric Carle’s work.
A white basket with five homemade stamps in it, covered in blue paint.
Drawing Painting Printmaking

Summer Stamps

Create your own stamped painting inspired by Robert McCloskey’s Blueberries for Sal.