Open Arts Studio

Step into the colorful arts studio where children are encouraged to think in new ways and create an inspired art project! Each month, Grace Farms Arts Educator Nancy Jameson leads a new tactile project utilizing open-ended inquiry, and exploring Grace Farms’ artworks, landscape, and community. Recommended for children ages 4 through 11 with adult caregivers. Please arrive at least half an hour before the studio closes.

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when

October 17, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

where

365 Lukes Wood Road
New Canaan, CT 06840 United States

cost

12

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Step into the colorful arts studio where children are encouraged to think in new ways and create an inspired art project! Each month, Grace Farms Arts Educator Nancy Jameson leads a new tactile project utilizing open-ended inquiry, and exploring Grace Farms’ artworks, landscape, and community.
Recommended for children ages 4 through 11 with adult caregivers. Please arrive at least half an hour before the studio closes.

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The Onera Foundation

Imagination Playground

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Grace Farms

Exhibition Tour with Artist, Ellen Carey

Join world-renowned experimental photographer Ellen Carey for a tour of her exhibition, Colors in the Dark. Ellen Carey is a world-renowned experimental photographer. She is best known for her photograms (created without a camera) and her striking lens-based work using the rare 20 x 24 Polaroid cameras. She challenges our expectations of what a photograph is by exploring photographic process: this is photography that does not point a camera at a subject, but rather, explores the intrinsic process of photography…

William Benton Museum of Art

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