Art at Home

Twinkly Icicle Suncatchers

Artist Joseph Breitenbach created surrealist photographs. Surrealism is an art movement that started in France in the early 1900s. Surrealist artists were interested in the creative power of dreams. They often manipulat...

Family Day To-Go: Holiday Tidings

About This Exhibition

The exhibition “36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea” is currently on view at the museum. It is a project by the performance artist Sarah Cameron Sunde. Performance art is a kind o...

Make a Mini Monolith

Last month, scientists discovered a mysterious metal monolith in a canyon in the Utah desert. No one knows yet who made it, and some unidentified people removed it a few days later. Another one showed up in Romania. A “monolith” is usually a large piece of stone, l...

Light Sculpture

Lila Katzen was an American sculptor known for her large-scale, fluid, abstract metal sculptures. She hoped these public works of art would invite people to connect with their environment. Katzen also used materials like light, plastics and liquid in her art. She l...

Toddler Tuesday: Have a Seat

These are special chairs made just for kids.

What do you notice?

How many different sizes can you find? Which one is the biggest? And which one is the smallest?

Soap Carvings

People have used relief carving to make sculptures for thousands of years. Artists start with a flat base, usually wood or stone, and carve away material until a final design stands out against the background. Reliefs a...

Family Day To-Go: The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design

About This Exhibition

Chairs tell a story about how furniture design has changed over the years. Technology, style and society all influence how people design and use chairs.

You can see this history in the ex...

Popsicle Stick Composition Puzzles

A composition is the placement of shapes or other elements in a work of art. Composition means “putting together.” This painting by Albert Eugene Gallatin shows a composition made from layered shapes and colors. Gallati...

Toddler Tuesday: Color Explosion

This painting has a rainbow of colors in it. It was made by an artist named Carl Holty.

Gallery Gumshoes: Outdoor Sculpture

Patricia Leighton creates outdoor, temporary sculptures that relate to their location and the environment. To connect her sculptures to their sites, Leighton uses the natural materials of the area, like soil, stones and plants, to create works of art. Her sculptures connect the people looking at ...