A Seemingly Idle Diversion: Family Workshops at the Hammer

OCT 25 SUN: October 25 2009, 03:00pm; Hammer Kids

A Seemingly Idle Diversion: Family Workshops at the Hammer

In conjunction with the exhibition Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, this series of workshops invites families to investigate doodling as a key part of the creative and learning process. Burchfield made scrapbooks for the hundreds of doodles he created, describing the doodles as a “free exercise in abstraction” that yielded some of his most useful motifs. Parents and kids will engage in the same process, doodling in response to music, conversation, sights, sounds, and smells. At the end of the workshop series, participants will create both a beautiful scrapbook of their doodles and a culminating artwork using their doodle motifs. The workshop will be taught by trained UCLA student artist/educators.

Session 1: Sunday, October, 25, 3–5pm
Session 2: Sunday, November 1, 3–5pm
Session 3: Sunday, November 8, 3–5pm

All ages welcome, parents and children encouraged to enroll together.

There will be a $25 per family refundable registration fee to hold your place. Please call Sue Bell Yank at 310-443-7047 or email syank@hammer.ucla.edu to enroll.

Parking is available under the museum for $3 for 3 hours.

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Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee.