NEW! Art Daze III for 11 to 14 year olds! Join artist James Grashow to create fabulous forms in corrugated cardboard for a one-of-a-kind garden in the Museum grounds. Learn advanced cutting, forming, and assembly techniques while contributing your vision to a garden for all of the community to enjoy. Bring your skills and ingenuity to the coolest project in town! Then, join the party to see the garden completely assembled at an end-of-summer celebration from 4 to 6 pm. Art Daze III programs at The Aldrich allow students to work with artists to experience the groundbreaking directions of today’s contemporary art. Participants in this one-day session will unleash their creative talents to design, build, learn new concepts, experiment with materials, and have fun with their peers in a museum setting. About the artist: Local artistic icon James Grashow was born in Brooklyn in 1942 and has been creating works that address themes of man, nature, and mortality. He is also a well-known woodcut artist, whose prints have been featured regularly in the New York Times and other publications throughout the country. James Grashow attended Pratt Institute where he received a BFA. On graduation, he was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant for painting and graphics to Florence, Italy. After a year abroad, he returned to Pratt to receive his MFA. James Grashow had his first sculpture exhibition at the Allan Stone Gallery in 1966. This began a relationship with the Allan Stone Gallery that continues to this day. Children’s summer programs at The Aldrich are supported, in part, by The Cowles Charitable Trust and the Estate of Ruth I. Krauss
