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FAQ: Auditorium Programs
You may also be interested in Children's Films and the Adventures in Art audio tour.
Family Workshops are designed for children and adults to participate together. Taught by artists and museum educators, each two-hour workshop includes an interactive tour in the galleries followed by a hands-on studio session.
Workshops are free, but preregistration is required. Online registration begins on September 22. Topics, required age range, times, and dates follow.
(ages 6–8)
Take a peek inside paintings that show families at home, then create a work of art to take home. Led by educators Kelly Emminger and Jeni Reklis.
There are eight two-hour sessions being offered. Online registration begins on September 22.
November 2, 16, 23 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
(ages 9–12)
Explore the exhibition George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings, then experiment with drawing techniques. Led by art educator Clare Grizzard.
There are six two-hour sessions being offered. Online registration begins on September 22.
Family Weekends offer a variety of activities—films, music, hands-on art projects—for children and adults to enjoy together. All activities are free. There is no advance registration for this drop-in program; participation in each activity is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information, call (202) 789-3030.
The next Family Weekend will be April 25 and 26, 2009, featuring the exhibition Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age. A detailed schedule of the weekend's events will be available in early March.
This series of programs uses storytelling to introduce children to works of art. Led by museum educators, each program includes reading a children's book, looking at one work of art in the galleries, and completing a simple hands-on activity.
For children ages four to seven with an adult companion, this free drop-in program is designed for individual families, and we cannot accommodate groups. Space is limited to 70 children per session. There is no advance registration; participation is on a first-come, first-served basis. Sign-in for all summer stories will take place in the West Building Rotunda. Sign-in begins at 11:00 a.m. on Sundays and at 10:00 a.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays, and will continue until all spaces are filled. Each program lasts approximately forty-five minutes. Program times, dates, and topics follow. For information, call (202) 789-3030.
The summer series is presented in a four-year cycle—Explore Italy, Discover Dutch Art, Tour de France, American Adventure—with each topic featuring a different part of the permanent collection.
Would you like to take a road trip across the United States? Pack your imagination and travel to the National Gallery of Art! Explore scenes of America, including its farms, shoreline, mountains, and cities. After investigating paintings in the newly re-opened American galleries, make a souvenir to document each adventure. You will receive a passport to the summer story series and a stamp for each program attended. If you have three or more stamps at the end of the summer, you will receive a prize!
The 2009 Summer Story Series is scheduled from July 12 through August 11. Programs will be on Sundays at 11:30, 12:30, and 1:30, and Mondays and Tuesdays at 10:30, 11:30, and 12:30. A detailed schedule with each week’s topic will be available in early June.
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