Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

Explore the wonderful world of Dr. Seuss through theatre play. Fun acting and improv games themed around characters and worlds created by Dr. Seuss will strengthen confidence and creative thinking while students play improv and acting games. Learn to express emotions on stage and work together to create believable moments. Theatre builds life skills in self-expression, collaboration, and empathy. This class includes a live performance of Dr. Seusss The Cat and the Hat.

Explore the magical world of Dr. Seuss. In this playful, hands-on class, children will create magical scenes and become a storyteller by building cardboard sculptures and tempera paintings and imagining their characters to life through their artwork. This class develops fine motor skills by using art-making tools, builds confidence through creating and visual storytelling, and encourages curiosity through creative problem-solving. This class includes a live performance of Dr. Seusss The Cat in the Hat in the Performing Arts Theater.

Embark on an artistic journey through people, places, and sights of Europe! View the Riveras Paris exhibition to see how the artists of Deigo Riveras time created their works and then create your own masterpieces in the studio. Paint a self-portrait, draw a landscape in pastel, and make expressive ink and brush drawings. This class uses watercolor paints, inks, brushes, and drawing pastels to engage in creative problem-solving, develop fine motor skills, and spark imaginations to become a "Mini Master" and create inspired artworks, as you build new friendships in the studio.

Dive into the whimsical world of Dr. Seuss through making art. Students will design, inspire, and make imagined characters into sculptures using found objects, and invent and paint colorful, patterned landscapes that become imagined worlds for their rhymes and stories. Students will build written and visual skills as they explore with creative expression in poetry, storytelling, and problem-solving with art materials. This class includes a live performance of Dr. Seusss The Cat in the Hat in the Performing Arts Theater.

Theatre play the Seuss way! Strengthen confidence and creative thinking while playing improv and acting games that are inspired by the characters and worlds created by Dr. Seuss, learn to express emotions on stage, and work together to create believable moments. Theatre builds life skills in self-expression, collaboration, and empathy. This class includes a backstage tour with the theatre professionals from AMFAs production of Dr. Seusss The Cat and the Hat in the Performing Arts Theater, giving students an inside look into how theatre is created for the stage and a chance to meet some of the professionals behind the scenes.

See the portraits, paintings, and landscapes that inspired Deigo Rivera along his journey through Europe, then head to the studio to create your own artworks. Students will work with charcoal to create portraits, paint with acrylics to capture a landscape, work with cut-paper to build a collage, and experiment with printmaking to design colorful mono-prints. While creating in the studio, students will develop several creative problem-solving skills and discover new visual perspectives and artwork compositions.

Students will view the Studio Time + Studio Practice exhibition and see artworks created with the materials they will be working with during this week-long arts experience. They have hands-on experiences in the ceramics, wood, and metals studios that include wheel throwing with clay, learning to use hand tools in the woodshop, and an introduction to shaping and adding color to metals in the metals studio. This is a great introduction to a variety of mediums that will be sure to spark a newfound interest in these specialized art forms while creating space for new friendships and building critical thinking skills and confidence through art making.