Georgia Museum of Art - Family Day

Exploring the arts...what a great way to spend a Saturday morning with your kids!  My family and I recently started attending Family Day at the .  Family Day events are open to the public and are all free, unless otherwise noted. Print It was the theme of this Saturday's Family Day event since several new collections on prints and printmakers just opened over the weekend.

Family Days are sponsored by Heyward Allen Motor Co., Heyward Allen Toyota, YellowBook USA and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art.  The events are held in the Michael and Mary Erlanger Studio Classroom located in the museum. On this particular Saturday, different areas were set up in the classroom for the children to try different print making techniques. The kids got to use cut fresh fruit with colorful stamp pads to make some beautiful and unique artwork. The kids and parents learned that there are many ways to transfer images from one surface to another using different methods and materials.

My daughter had a blast and cannot wait to go back to the Museum of Art for the next Family Day.  In my opinion, you are never too young to start learning and appreciating all of the different forms of art. Free events like this bring in kids who may have never entered an art museum, and then expose them to different forms of art.  

Please be sure to mark your calendar because the next Family Day event is: Making Sculpture from Recycled Materials on September 8th from 10:00 A.M. - Noon.

Be sure to check out some of the new art on view that just opened up this weekend. The aforementioned, The New York Collection for Stockholm, The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection at the Snite Museum of Art, and Francisco de Goya's "Disasters of War."

For more information on The Georgia Musuem of Art, please visit their website

See you at the Georgia Museum of Art!