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Celebrate 20 Years in the Making with MCD during our MakeArt Family Day 20-Year Birthday Party!
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Celebrate 20 Years in the Making with MCD during our MakeArt Family Day 20-Year Birthday Party!
Join us for hands-on art making inspired by our Get in the Game exhibition. Invent and make your own mascot in January, and then in March get inspired by Gene Luen Yang, author of Dragon Hoops and creator of the Bay Area Hoops mural on Floor 2!
This free program provides art-making opportunities for parents and families to create with their children.
Let's create an enormous, temporary artwork together at the beach.
In depth experience of creating epic, collaborative, ephemeral art at the beach!
We invite you, and all Bay Area families, to attend the 4th annual de Youngsters Day Out on Saturday, May 3, 2025.
Celebrating Native American culture, art, music and food.
This free program provides art-making opportunities for parents and families to create with their children.
Join us for an exploration of exhibiting artists’ techniques. Michelle will lead a Josef Albers-inspired exercise in composition and color theory. Johanna will guide a brush and ink workshop. All ages welcome!
This free program provides art-making opportunities for parents and families to create with their children.
Free, hands-on, multi-age art activities! Collaborative Weaving, Mixed Media Workshop, Artist Talk, Q/A and Demo.
The museum’s annual family celebration of art will take place on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 in 2025.
In depth experience of creating epic, collaborative, ephemeral art at the beach!
Join us for hands-on art making inspired by our Get in the Game exhibition. Invent and make your own mascot in January, and then in March get inspired by Gene Luen Yang, author of Dragon Hoops and creator of the Bay Area Hoops mural on Floor 2!
Let's create an enormous, temporary artwork together at the beach.
Inspired by the current exhibition of Charles Hobson’s innovative artist’s books, this workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to explore unusual concepts, shapes, and techniques in bookmaking and to incorporate words, pictures, and materials from the natural world in the process.
This free program provides art-making opportunities for parents and families to create with their children.
Enjoy art making and storytelling around a different theme each month — fun and creativity for the whole family!
Who do you cheer for, and how do you do it? Celebrate all the creative ways fans show their love for a team, player, or artist through art making, performances, and more.
Join us to preview our new exhibition and bring the family for a children’s art activity with artist Ellen Burns and her daughters, Clare & Freya.
Explore Marin County's many art offerings with special hours, events, tours, and family programming at some of its leading galleries and museums!
This free program provides art-making opportunities for parents and families to create with their children.
Join us for Second Sundays for Families, a program at the museum featuring art making and storytelling around a different theme each month.
Keep the family fun up during the holiday season with our Cartooning for the Whole Family workshop everyone will enjoy!
This free program provides art-making opportunities for parents and families to create with their children.
Join in to create & play with sand globes and each other! Making sand globes from moist sand and water is easy-- and it feels like magic!
Enjoy a day of art and family fun at SFMOMA! These special days include art-making activities for the whole family in our Koret Education Center, located on Floor 2, plus additional activities and activations. Admission to the museum is free for up to four adults accompanying one child or teen (eighteen and younger).
Thinking about starting your own graphic novel? This class will help you get started!
Teens, join us for a fun, FREE creative ceramic night! Learn painting techniques to personalize a unique ceramic piece with vibrant colors.
Join us for an afternoon of playful collaborative sculpture-making using dried Agapanthus flowers at Berkeley’s Codornices Park.
Join us for a fun and relaxing evening at Creative Ceramics Night!
Games and sports have taken over the museum, and we need YOU to help us create an in-gallery game that will teach visitors about the many sports-inspired artworks on view!
Centennial Weekend Celebration: Free Saturdays
Help us make a game for the exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture!
Join us at ArtWalk – the Tri Valley’s premiere one day art festival. Over 200 artists display their works on sidewalks and plazas, in parks and galleries, surrounded by boutique shops, wine tasting rooms and restaurants in historic downtown Livermore.
Featuring California Artists original works by artists and craftspeople bring a wide variety of products to interest entire families and encourage wider public attendance at major festivals presented in the Bay Area by California Artists.
Teens join us for this free event! Get creative and make your own airbrush tees and stenciled totes. This free event is for teens ages 13 -17 only. Registration is required.
Join us at the gorgeous Paradise Beach Park for a fun-filled family painting session.
Join Park Rangers in celebrating the autumn equinox.
Come join us at Backesto Park for the Luna Park Chalk Art Festival. Artists of all ages and abilities are welcome!
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