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Family Day: Mixing It Up with Color

Join us for Family Day: Mixing It Up with Color on Saturday, April 27, 12:30-2 p.m., 2:30-4 p.m. in Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom. Each session will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m. and again at 2:30 p.m. This event is inspired by the exhibition Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color (Bellarmine Hall Galleries, April 5-July 27)! Kids ages 4-10 will dive into a rainbow of color-based activities, from ‘painting” with Skittles, to making sensory foam paintings, to creating layered collage out of…

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April 27, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm

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Join us for Family Day: Mixing It Up with Color on Saturday, April 27, 12:30-2 p.m., 2:30-4 p.m. in Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom. Each session will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m. and again at 2:30 p.m.
This event is inspired by the exhibition Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color (Bellarmine Hall Galleries, April 5-July 27)!
Kids ages 4-10 will dive into a rainbow of color-based activities, from ‘painting” with Skittles, to making sensory foam paintings, to creating layered collage out of dampened tissue paper – all led by our Museum Educator.
Don’t miss the exhibition down the hall! Artist Suzanne Chamlin (Associate Professor of Studio Art, Fairfield University), explores ideas about color theory and light through a series of landscape and interior stills. Learn more here.

Suzanne Chamlin, paint tube colors, 2012, oil on paper. © Suzanne Chamlin.

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