Sunday, January 15, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 2012
Borough Monsters! – AAAHHHH!!! The 5 boroughs of New York City are alive, and they’re taking over the Queens Museum. Using the shapes of each borough as your base, create your own New York City borough monster with crayons, markers, and construction paper. Is Queens a friendly snaggletoothed purple fuzzball? Is Brooklyn a crafty orange [...]
Sunday, November 20, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 2011
Museum of Wonder – Inspired by the exhibition Wonderstruck in the Panorama: Drawings by Brian Selznick. We invite you to imagine a Museum of your own creation. What is your Museum about? What kinds of things are on exhibit there? Participants will work with pencil and paper to bring their visions to life.
Sunday, October 30, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 2011
Diwali Time – In India this time of year is known as the festival of lights called Diwali. The annual festivities include people lighting ceremonial lamps that signify the light of goodness in our lives. Please join us, as we create our own colorful paper lanterns to celebrate this traditional holiday.
Sunday, October 23, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 2011
Get Your Mask On: How about we devote one Family workshop to making a simple mask in celebration of Halloween? We will provide a treasure trove of supplies, and the rest is up to you. Who or what would you like to be? It’s time to get your mask on.
Sunday, October 16, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 2011
What is a City? – Alright, ladies and gents, here is what we are going to do. First, we make a great big list of as many different things we can identify in this great big city of ours. Next, we take giant sheets of paper and pack them full of every single thing that [...]
Sunday, October 2, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm, 2011
Picture Detectives – Please join us for an exciting workshop that brings us into the exhibition entitled Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore. Participants will investigate these works with sketching materials in hand, learning how to depict the basic shapes that they find contained within the different composition, as they learn to talk about the [...]