Friday, May 3, 2013

LACMA Free Admission and Family Sunday Projects

I always loved visiting LACMA on the free days each month, until I found out that if you have kids you can all get in free any time!  Isn't that great?  Just sign your kids up for the NexGen program, and they get in free and can bring an adult free too.

LACMA also has free art projects every Sunday, as part of the Andell Family Sunday series.  This month they are doing projects focusing on maps, landscapes, and compasses, and there are some basic crafts for the little kids too:)

I have been wanting to take my kids to the miniature car exhibit as well.  There is a huge track with cars that drive and zoom around.  My son is 3.5 now, and I think old enough to not be supremely disappointed that he can't touch the cars, just look at them:)

So visit the website to get your kids signed up for NexGen, or just do it at the ticket window on your next trip.  My kids got membership cards in the mail a few weeks after we registered by mail.


Andell Family Sundays—East Coast Meets West Coast

May 5, 12, 19, 26 | 12:30 pm
Travel from the East Coast to the West Coast without leaving the room! Take a tour of Compass for Surveyors: 19th Century American Landscapes.
Create your own scenic art, in the following workshops—you can even make a compass!
Maps and Compasses with artist Marianne Sadowski
Make a compass and add it to a map of the United States during the 19th century. Participants will make the map their own work by adding their own drawings.
Finding Your Direction with artist Delia DeVer
Working with images from the exhibition, participants will arrange two images side by side, then add color and texture with oil pastels.  
Your Future Landscape with artist Gloria Westcott
Imagine and then draw the landscape you envision for the future.
Toddler Tarp with artist Hannah Cassell
Artists five years old and younger will make their own landscape thaumatrope using collage materials and watercolor pencils.
While you're here, cruise on over to BCAM to see more than a thousand miniature cars zooming through Chris Burden's kinetic sculpture,Metropolis II, which is in action every Sunday at the following times: 10:30–11:30 am; 12:30–1:30 pm; 2:30–3:30 pm; 4:30–5:30 pm.
LATCC | Free, with museum admission | 12:30–3:30 pm
Children must be accompanied by an adult.

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