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In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, Master storyteller Perry Ground (Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation), will share Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous cultures through storytelling, performance, and artifact-sharing. 1pm sessions are geared toward families; 3pm sessions are geared towards older teens and adults. Inspired by works by Shelley Niro and Frederic Remington in Everything Has a

Create your own scallop necklace in this workshop led by Native American artist Denise Silva-Dennis. Scallop necklaces were often worn by the Shinnecock (the original people of Long Island) and are still worn today as part of traditional regalia. Learn about how these necklaces reflect the Shinnecock relationship to the land and water. All materials

Create your own beaded jewelry and learn about the traditions and techniques of Native American beading with Shinnecock artist Denise Silva-Dennis, who will demonstrate how to make seed beaded earrings. This workshop is inspired by an oil painting by Shelley Niro (Turtle Clan of the Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk) Nation, from the Six Nations of the Grand River

Join us for a hands-on video workshop led by Magic Box Productions and inspired by Bill Viola: Moving Stillness. This is the first in a four-part series tailored to different audiences. Each session begins with a look at Viola’s work, using it as a jumping-off point for creativity and conversation. Learn the basics of video

Celebrate Día de Muertos at the HRM with art-making activities and our community altar, or ofrenda, where you are invited to place pictures of your departed loved ones.* Join us for a special art workshop where you can create your own sugar skull mask, or calavera, an important part of the annual celebration that ties

Create your own spooky lantern! With a mason jar, tissue paper, and a little fake candle, you’ll light up the night with fright. Recommended ages 6+.

Celebrate the spookiest weekend of the year with fun programs and projects for all ages! Get your face painted, explore our haunted historic home on a Gothic Glenview Tour, learn about the stars in our scary planetarium show, and create a masquerade mask in our Family Art Workshops. Come in costume and receive candy throughout

Using Polaroid cameras and prisms, experiment with light and reflection to create dreamlike compositions inspired by Bill Viola: Moving Stillness and Collection Spotlight: Hudson River School. Create an abstract landscape of the Hudson and the Palisades in this workshop led by Teaching Artist-in-Residence Rachael Guma. All materials will be provided, and advance registration is recommended.

Deadly heat waves, struggling forests, melting glaciers, stifling summer nights… the signs of climate change are already here. The carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we add to the atmosphere are fueling weather-related disasters, and scientists warn of a future resembling 15 million years ago, when the Arctic was ice-free and trees grew in Antarctica.

Join acclaimed artist and educator Carol Fabricatore for the first in a three-part series of seasonal plein air workshops inspired by Childe Hassam’s Summer Sea, Isles of Shoals, on loan from the Toledo Museum of Art. Learn to engage in the Impressionist practice of painting from life, capturing light, movement, and mood outdoors in real