Art at Home

Toddler Tuesday: Butterflies

Have you seen any butterflies lately? Butterflies hatch in warm weather and love the spring. They love it because the weather feels good and flowers are blooming everywhere.

Do you think a butterfly would like to live in this painting? Why or why not?

This painting shows a flower ga...

Family Day: Victoria’s Wild Critters

Rediscovering the Art of Victoria Hutson Huntley

During the 1930s and 1940s, Victoria Hutson Huntley (1900 – 1971) was a well-known printmaker. She mainly created two types of prints: lithographs and intaglio (in-TAL-ee-oh). Both are types of relief...

Albrecht Dürer Coloring Pages

The German artist Albrecht Dürer created highly naturalistic works, suggesting depth and texture using only the black lines of etching, engraving and woodcut. That makes his works perfect for coloring pages. We created some using works of his in our collection. Download and print or use an image...

Found Object Shacks

Beverly Buchanan is an African American artist who explored everyday southern architecture. Buchanan is best known for creating small-scale sculptures of the houses where black tenant farmers lived. She called these sculptures “shacks.” Her shacks are made of found objects like wood, tar, buttons...

Styrofoam Plate Cityscapes

Victoria Hutson Huntley was a well-known printmaker in the 1930s and 1940s. Printmaking is a process in which the artist carves or etches a design onto a solid surface (called a plate), then transfers it onto another surface, like paper, using paint or ink. In this print, Huntley...

Earth Day: Recycled Binoculars

Recycled Binoculars

This Earth Day, explore nature around you in your backyard or neighborhood. In this Art at Home project, we’ll recycle toilet paper rolls and turn them into wearable art. Then you can take your binoculars outside (or take a look through the window!) and notice the bea...

Toddler Tuesday: Beautiful Oops

What do you think about mistakes or accidents? Some people think abstract paintings like this one look like they were painted by accident. It is full of thick brushstrokes, drips and splashes that almost look like spills of paint.

What do you think of this painting by Angelo Ippoli...