A family celebration! Come to the Birthplace and paint your own family portrait.- Pre-K – 3rd Grade
A family celebration! Come to the Birthplace and celebrate Grandparents’ Day. We will read Grandpa Green by Callicott winner Lane Smith, look at American painter Eastman Johnson’s painting “The Hatch Family” and paint your own family portrait.
Saturday 9/7 @ll:30am-12:30pm
Pre- Registration is Required – Limited Space Available (8 Spots)
$25 – First child & Guardian
$20 – Second child
10% membership discount
Picture Books are a crucial tool for developing a child’s literacy and language skills in their early years. They help build self-confidence as the child learns to read through visual thinking. The children will read a book, then tell their own story through collage and other multimedia materials. They will look at the different elements of art such as changing perspective, scale, as well as multiple points of view through drawing and using collage materials.
Lena Massari Sawyer is a former Museum Educator, having worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for over 25 years. While at the Met, she specialized in early childhood education, creating and teaching numerous art history, studio art and children’s literature classes. She also developed programs for The School of American Ballet, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth as well as many special events for the Met Family Circle. Lena is a long-time resident of the Town of Huntington where she lives with her family, she enjoys painting, drawing and long nature walks.
