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Event Series: The Long View

Family Fest: Art in Bloom

August 9 @ 10:00 am 1:00 pm

Photo of a large hedge decorated with handmade paper flowers. A young boy and young girl sit playing in front of it.

Experience a day where art and gardens come together through hands-on artmaking in partnership with Little Rock Master Gardeners and Tipton & Hurst.

Inspired by the works on view in The Long View: From Conservation to Sustainability: Works from the Bank of America Collection, explore the Museum and enjoy a variety of free activities:

  • Create botanical arrangements to serve as your muse for a drawing or painting in the Flex Studio.
  • Learn how to make prints using flowers in the Drawing Studio.
  • Experiment with wheel throwing and hand building in the Ceramics Wheel Studio.
  • Build a wooden pendant in the Ceramics Hand Studio.
  • Sculpt decorative flowers in the Metals Studio.
  • Watch a torch flamework demonstration in the Glass Studio.
  • Design and decorate a flower pot while listening to bluegrass music performed by Country Breakfast in the Cultural Living Room.

Family Fest: Art in Bloom is supported in part by the Alice L. Walton Foundation. In-kind support is provided by Tipton & Hurst.

The Long View: From Conservation to Sustainability: Works from the Bank of America Collection is presented by Bank of America.

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Additional support is provided by Anne and Merritt Dyke.

This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.

Image courtesy of Jason Masters.

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