Virtual Family Adventures

Though we might build and make connections between classes, each class will stand on its own as well. Feel free to come to one session or come to a few depending on your availability and interest!

Explore works of art in our collection through interactive games and activities, designed for kids ages 4–8 and their caregivers. Each week, find hope through art as we explore this semester's theme, “Silver Linings,” through art-making with digital or household materials, as well as songs, stories, scavenger hunts, and other games.

Thursday October 22- What might the sky outside your window look like today? This week’s session explores looking at the sky and clouds through the work of Byron Kim, and has families creating their own observational drawings with any drawing materials they have at home.

Thursday October 29- Have you ever seen a beautiful rainbow after a storm? This week, we’ll look at Brooklyn Museum collection artworks by Alma Thomas, and others, focus on bright colors. We’ll sing songs about rainbows, and make our own collaborative digital artwork.  

Thursday November 5-Outside, the world is changing all around us- and we can notice it in the changing leaves. How can we notice and appreciate the changes all around us, and in ourselves? We’ll create our own found materials artwork after looking at Hudson River School landscapes in our collection- feel free to gather leaves and other natural materials in preparation for this artwork! 

Thursday November 12- What has changed about Brooklyn, and what is the same? This week’s session explores artworks that feature New York City and Brooklyn. Participants will create their own maps and create three-dimensional artworks using paper and scissors.

Thursday November 19- You can change the world! This week’s session thinks about what makes us special, and how we can fight for what we believe in using our own special and unique powers. We’ll look at colorful artworks by the arts collective AfriCOBRA that focus on activism, and create our own wearable art using an old t-shirt or cloth.  

Thursday December 3- Go green! This week’s session continues to think about how we might improve our world by exploring artworks from Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change and Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks, and make artworks out of recyclable materials.

Thursday December 10- This week, we wonder, what if we could create our own world- what would it look like? We’ll explore artworks and songs that focus on space and new worlds, and create our own paints to make our own artwork using coffee, tea, or food coloring.

Thursday December 17- This week explores hope and humor. What makes an artwork funny? How can we tell our funniest (or most memorable) family stories? Families will attempt to make each other laugh in this session, and we’ll create our own artwork that focuses on important family moments using the drawing materials you have at home.