This week I am collaborating with our fantastic Gallery Greats committee to bring art and history to the library. Gallery Greats docents will be on hand to guide classes through a tour of Gallery Greats art and artists. Activities will include art explorations using iPads (MOMA art lab and NGA kids) and computers (Tate Kids- Street Art). I am hopeful that this event will generate an excitement about art in Austin as well as in cities and countries far away. When I've traveled with my family, we've gone to many museums and have experienced beautiful art, unusual artifacts, and interesting objects that create excitement and curiosity. We discuss history and places we'd like to travel in the future and search for information to enhance our new knowledge. I hope that our mini museum experience and hands-on activities do just that. I see great potential in this collaboration and look forward to expanding it in the fall perhaps with outreach to those of you who have a connection to art in the community and special talents that you'd like to share. Virginia Jones, RAD co-chair extraordinaire, has provided an amazing list of links to locations and events that you can explore right here in ATX as well as links to fun websites and apps that you and your child may find interesting! Please add a comment and share! I look forward to hearing from you! Thanks for your support of the Doss Library and me! It has been an amazing year and I am already excited for the possibilities that lie ahead for the 2015-2016 school year.
NGA Kids Art Zone- free
https://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm
Austin-area resources
Blanton Museum of Art - Free admission every third Thursday
Family Programs
The Contemporary Austin - Downtown and Laguna Gloria
Free admission every Tuesday
Family Programs
Also at the Contemporary: New World Kids- creativity camp for 5-6 year olds
Art School at Laguna Gloria - camps and weekend art lessons
Dougherty Arts Center - exhibitions and art school
Harry Ransom Center - free admission
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition - through July 6
Websites
The Smithsonian Education website
Google Art Project
TED-ed
Fraboom Online Children's Museum - drawing academy
Apps
Guggenheim Museum - free
Musee du Louvre - free
Art Museum (Match'em up) - free
MoMA Art Lab- free
http://www.moma.org/learn/kids_families/apps_websitesNGA Kids Art Zone- free
https://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm
Check back to this blog for some summer reading suggestions and ideas--- coming soon!
~Mrs. Lang
