If you have ever been to the Nevada Museum of Art, you know it is an amazing place filled with beautiful exhibits that we are sure not to touch. But for those of us and our children there is something fun, free and totally hands-on… Hands on 2nd Saturdays!
Hands On Second Saturdays provides hands-on activities throughout the Museum. The activities offered encourage adults and children to make art together. It is for ages 3 to adult and admission is FREE all day.
Here is the 2015 schedule…
Local Landscapes and Wells Fargo Community Day
Saturday, September 12, 2015
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Inspired by the exhibition, Tahoe: A Visual History, children and families will create artworks inspired by the West and the Lake Tahoe region while enjoying free hands-on art activities, performances, storytelling and a docent guided tour.
SCHEDULE
10 am – 6 pm | Free Admission for all Visitors
10 am – 6 pm | View the Wells Fargo Stage Coach
10 am – 4 pm | Torn Collage Landscapes
10 am – 4 pm | Western Watercolor Sunsets
10:30 & 11 am | Children’s Storytelling with Kathleen Durham
12 & 1 pm | Western Songs and Trick Roping with Tumbleweed Tex Weir
1:00 pm | Public Tour (adult focus)
2:30 & 3 pm | Children’s Storytelling with Kathleen Durham
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
Saturday, October 10, 2015
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Celebrating the Mexican tradition of Dia del los Muertos, participants will enjoy a cultural presentation, interactive performance, storytelling and hands-on art activities. Participants will be invited to contribute to a group altar honoring the souls of loved ones and will explore the Mexican tradition of papel picado.
SCHEDULE
10 am – 6 pm | Free Admission for all Visitors
10 am – 4 pm | Tissue Paper Flowers
10 am – 4 pm | View and add to a community Altar
10 am – 4 pm | Papel Picado
10:30 & 11 am | Children’s Storytelling with Kathleen Durham
1:00 pm | Public Tour (adult focus) – 3rd Floor
2:30 & 3 pm | Children’s Storytelling with Kathleen Durham
LOCAL LANDSCAPES
Saturday, November 14, 2015
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Inspired by the exhibition, Tahoe: A Visual History, children and families will be engaged with free art activities related to the geography of the Lake Tahoe region and will enjoy free hands-on art activities, performances, storytelling and a docent guided tour.
SCHEDULE
10 am – 6 pm | Free Admission for all Visitors
10 am – 4 pm | Hands-on art project
10 am – 4 pm | Hands-on art project
10:30 & 11 am | Children’s Storytelling with Kathleen Durham
1:00 pm | Public Tour (adult focus)
2:30 & 3 pm | Children’s Storytelling with Kathleen Durham
WINTER WONDERLAND AND MUSEUM SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, December 12, 2015
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Children and families will be enjoy faculty demonstrations in the E.L. Cord Museum School free hands-on art activities, performances, storytelling and a docent guided tour.
SCHEDULE
10 am – 6 pm | Free Admission for all Visitors
10 am – 4 pm | Hands-on project
10 am – 4 pm | Hands-on project
10:30 & 11 am | Children’s Storytelling with Kathleen Durham
1:00 pm | Public Tour (adult focus)
2:30 & 3 pm | Children’s Storytelling with Kathleen Durham
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