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: [...]
By Mary Scott Hackman, Early Childhood Program Developer, Providence Children’s Museum Children learn best when they are allowed to make choices and experiment – the process is as important as the outcome. This statement is not only powerful; it is the sum and substance of Providence Children’s Museum’s educational philosophy. It is the message we [...]
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 [...]
By Mary Scott Hackman, Early Childhood Program Developer, Providence Children’s Museum Clay and dough are sensational media for children. It always surprises me how all-involving they can be, that a child can poke them, pick them up, push things into them for hours. I recently made a few batches of dough for the Museum’s Preschool [...]
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 [...]
