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READiculous Family ArtVenture

April 27, 2024 | 11:00am - 3:00pm

Famiy ArtVenture, Featured Event, Youth & Family, Friends of the Wichita Art Museum

Cost:

Free admission

Location:

Wichita Art Museum

Organizer:

Friends of the Wichita Art Museum

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About This Event

A woman and a toddler doing a craft with colorful pipe cleaners.

Let your imagination soar through the magic of art and stories! Performances, storytelling, activities in the galleries, and art making for the whole family will spark your creativity on this day devoted to books and art.

Activities and Schedule:

11 am to 3 pm

  • Coloring Station with Sontia Levy-Mason of Get Ya Color On Studios (River Lobby – 1st floor)
  • Art making (Art Studio)
  • Pop-up Children’s Book Nook (2nd floor galleries)
  • PLAY—WAM’s interactive family space (1st floor; Follow the dots!)
  • Taters & Toppings food truck (outside)

11:30am

  • Kathak (Classical Indian dance) performance with Sonalli Kurlekar. Sonalli Kurlekar will be performing a Kathak dance performance on ‘Hori’, a theme-based performance depicting the Festival of Colors and arrival of spring. (Ablah Gallery – 2nd floor)

12:30pm

  • Storytelling with Wanda Lonnon in (im)permanent (2nd floor galleries)

1:30pm

2:00pm

Storytelling with Emily Cass & Meghan Miller, next to Night Sun III in the Bloomfield Gallery (2nd floor

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad are Friends written by Arnold Lobel
Louise Nevelson, Night Sun III, 1959-68. Wood, 118 x 93 x 8 inches. Wichita Art Museum, Museum purchase, Wichita Art Museum Members Foundation
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◆ Youth and Family programs are generously supported by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program

◆ Youth Education programs are supported by the Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation

◆ Free Saturday Featured Events and Library Passes* are sponsored by Colby Sandlian, Sandlian Realty

◆ The Wichita Art Museum’s education programs are supported in part by the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, which receives funding from Kansas Department of Commerce and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

* Thanks to the generous support of Colby Sandlian, Sandlian Realty, more than 40 public libraries in the metro area and across the state offer access to check out passes to all temporary exhibitions at WAM for FREE! Visit your library and check out your pass today!

General admission to the museum is free to everyone.