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Sharpen your pencils, THE BIG DRAW is back! Celebrate drawing at the RISD Museum of Art

Sharpen your pencils, THE BIG DRAW is back! Celebrate drawing at the RISD Museum of Art

[ 0 ] 4.25.2012 |

Draw through the Museum in artist-led activities for all ages, spontaneous mark making in the galleries, and special demonstrations by RISD student-artists. Let live music guide your hand; contribute to a large-scale mural; make a drawing, take a drawing in the always popular Drawing Exchange; see artists at work in the galleries; and draw across time and culture using the Museum’s new Young Explorer’s Guide. There’ll be no starving artists here… venture out into the Chace Center Plaza and visit Rosie’s food truck for family-friendly lunch and snack options.

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ARTplay: Use everyday objects in unexpected ways

ARTplay: Use everyday objects in unexpected ways

[ 1 ] 5.20.2010 |

Artists often represent places they know well. Tony Capellan’s Mar Caribe is inspired by the coast of the Caribbean Sea and his home in the Dominican Republic. The many sandals in varied shades of blue suggest the ocean and wearing flip-flops on the beach. Tony Capellan collected these sandals and arranged them to create this [...]

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The Big Draw celebrates drawing for all!

The Big Draw celebrates drawing for all!

[ 0 ] 4.21.2010 |

April 24, 11-4pm at The RISD Museum. Details listed below. The Big Draw was first established in 2000 in the United Kingdom by the Campaign for Drawing, an arts organization that promotes drawing as an important and exciting tool to help people of all ages see, think, invent, and learn. It has has one aim: [...]

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ARTplay: What makes a chair?

ARTplay: What makes a chair?

[ 0 ] 3.26.2010 |

With your child: What objects make up the head, back, seat, and legs of this chair?  There is a compass, pencil, paper, and ruler.  These are some of the tools of an architect.  This chair is called a Valet Chair because you could hang your coat from the pegs at the top of the compass [...]

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ARTplay: What does a portrait tell us?

ARTplay: What does a portrait tell us?

[ 0 ] 2.26.2010 |

Artists create portraits for many reasons. They can depict what a person looks like and also reveal their profession, status, identity. Every detail in this painting is intended to tell us that this is a young woman from a royal family. She stands between palm and laurel trees on a grassy terrace above an enclosed [...]

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