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Big Art Weekend


  • Bay Area Discovery Museum 557 McReynolds Road Sausalito, CA, 94965 United States (map)

Reuse, Recreate, Reimagine

Tickets go on sale on March 12 at 8 p.m. 

In honor of Earth Day, celebrate the art of nature and creative reuse at Big Art Weekend, April 22 – 23. Around every corner, you’ll discover new possibilities for creativity.

April 22 and 23, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Member Hour: 9 – 10 a.m.
General Admission: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
All activities included in admission. Tickets are required due to limited capacity.
Tickets are free for members and must be reserved in advance.

Programs include:

  • Bubble Boppin’ Dance Party: Pop it, bop it, rock it! Create bubbles big and small as you dance with friends and family to live music. 

  • Art Rocks!: Decorate your own rock and add it to our community rock garden or bring your rock friend home!

  • Flower Power Garden: Join our friends at SCRAP SF to create beautiful cardboard flowers then plant them in a growing garden. 

  • Nature Painting: Create a masterpiece with nature’s tools. Use leaves, twigs and grasses to paint a community mural.  

  • Recycled Runway: Design your own cardboard crown or cap accessory and show off your creation by strutting the recycled runway. 

  • Scribblebots: Use recycled materials to design and build your own robot that draws!  

  • Wild Impressions: Explore and play with the texture of natural materials by pressing flowers, leaves, gumnuts and more into clay.

  • Performances by: Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble

  • Donor Circle Event, April 22: Look out for an email to RSVP for breakfast and more bubbles the morning of April 22!