Celebrate the opening weekend of each new exhibition with tours, workshops, and special exhibition related activities.

Saturday, February 6 & Sunday, February 7
Opening Weekend
Collecting for the New Millennium: Recent Acquisitions, 2000 - 2010
Bakelite in Yonkers: Pioneering the Age of Plastics
12 – 5 pm

The following programs will be on both Saturday, February 6 & Sunday, February 7:

Interactive Family Tours
February 6 – Rachel Crumpler
February 7 – Deborah Yasinsky

Collecting for the New Millennium: Recent Acquisitions, 2000 - 2010
1 – 2 pm, meet in Museum lobby at 12:50 pm.
Join a Museum Educator for an interactive exploration of Collecting for the New Millennium: Recent Acquisitions, 2000 - 2010. Families will discuss the paintings, textiles and sculpture that illuminate the long narrative of the Hudson River and the people who live beside it.

Bakelite in Yonkers: Pioneering the Age of Plastics
2:30 - 3:30 pm, meet in Museum lobby at 2:20 pm.
Families are invited to look at and discuss the many objects in Bakelite in Yonkers. See how bakelite was used to create an array of 20th century objects!

Bakelite Inspired Clay Hand-Building workshop with Vicky Youngman
1 - 1:45, 2 - 2:45, and 3 - 3:45 pm
20th century designers and manufacturers capitalized on bakelite’s slickness and durability to create an array of products—ash trays, toilet seats, door handles, blocks, bracelets, clocks, dinnerware, flashlights, toasters, kitchen mixers, and toy cars—to name a few. These objects share simple, streamlined forms and designs. Join ceramicist Vicky Youngman for a hand-building workshop that includes a discussion of ceramics, form and design. Using clay, families will design and create their own objects to take home!

Each session limited to 20 people, on a first-come first-served basis. Suggested for families with children ages 7 and up.

Landscapes Real & Imagined: Exploring Painting at the Hudson River Museum with Sarah Mostow
1 – 4 pm
Brighten up the winter season with a colorful painting of the Hudson River. After viewing the Hudson River School landscape paintings, color postcards, documentary photographs, and contemporary artwork included in Collecting for a New Millennium: Recent Acquisitions 2000-2010, join Museum Educator Sarah Mostow for a painting workshop. Families will learn color-mixing techniques and use these skills to paint their own landscapes, real and imagined.

Drop-in workshop, capacity based on space availability. Suggested for families with children ages 7 and up.

Saturday, March 13 & Sunday, March 14
Opening Weekend
Jacob Lawrence: Prints, 1963-2000, A Comprehensive Survey
12-5 pm

The following programs will be on both Saturday, March 13 & Sunday, March 14:

Interactive Family Tours
March 13 – Caitlin Clark
March 14 – Deborah Yasinsky

Jacob Lawrence: Prints, 1963-2000, A Comprehensive Survey
1 – 2 pm & 2:30 - 3:30 pm, meet in Museum lobby 10 minutes before each tour.
Families are invited to join a Museum Educator for an interactive exploration of Jacob Lawrence. Identify and discuss the bold color and shapes that depict scenes of daily life on the busy streets of Harlem.

Also on March 14th only see the Sean Smith Trio.

Styrofoam Print Workshop with Sarah Mostow
1 – 4 pm
Jacob Lawrence is celebrated for a powerful, concise artistic style that expresses the vibrancy of the Harlem neighborhood in which he grew up. School children, parents, workers, families and neighbors crowd the busy sidewalks, libraries and workshops of his Harlem. What does your neighborhood look like? Who do you see on the streets? Use familiar materials in a new way to depict your own community in a printmaking workshop led by Museum Educator Sarah Mostow.

Drop-in workshop, capacity based on space availability. Suggested for families with children 7 years age and older.

Join the festivities in these bilingual museum wide days celebrating spring and the Mexican holiday of remembrance, Day of the Dead.

Sunday, March 21
El Dia de la Primavera
12 – 5

El Día de la Primavera welcomes the return of spring as it is heralded by the rebirth of the natural world. Celebrate nature’s beauty with music, arts, crafts and food.

• Be “transformed” into a spring bouquet with creative face painting by Agostino Arts.
• Enjoy a Spanish-language tour of the landscape paintings on view in Glenview.
• Feast on delicious food by Tacos el Poblano.
• Take in the Gabriel Alegria Afro Peruvian Sextet*, whose sound represents the cutting edge of contemporary Afro-Peruvian jazz music including passages of zapateo dancing and traditional Afro-Peruvian hand drumming. 

* This Gabriel Alegria Afro Peruvian Sextet presentation was made possible by generous sponsorship provided by Jazz Peru International.  www.jazzperu.org

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