Visit The Art Studio!
Experiment, create, express and explore! The Art Studio encourages both individual and collaborative visual arts experiences utilizing a wide variety of recycled materials, child-sized tools, and innovative art techniques. Many types of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and crafts are explored through color, patterns and textures.
The Art Studio at the Children’s Museum of Richmond encourages children to discover their own unique artistic expression through the process of creating. To find out more about the importance of the creative process in childhood learning & development, click here!
Children and adults can utilize various materials, media, and objects to explore art and expression. On-going features in the studio include tempera painting using brushes and textural items, weaving on a variety of looms, constructing using found objects, and drawing of all types.
Some of the projects/examples include various types of puppets, collages, holiday cards, hats, self-portraits, masks, make your own creatures, rain sticks, magnets, books and bookmarks, mobiles, and calendars. Here are some of the projects that will be featured in the coming weeks:
- Aug25-Sept 1: Self-Portraits
- Sept 2-Sept 5: MUSEUM CLOSED
- Sept 8-Sept 15: Mask Making
- Sept 15-Sept 22: Surprise Favors
- Sept 22-Sept 29: Decorate Lunch Bags
- Sept 29-Oct 6: Fall Collage
Creative art projects are made every day in CMoR’s Art Studio. Take a look at some of the cool things children and adults have made recently.
Did you know that CMoR’s art projects are featured monthly in the Richmond Times Dispatch’s Kids Extra pages and in All About Kids Magazine’s Kids Can Do section?
Be sure to check it out for some more neat project ideas!
CMoR’s Art Studio would like to thank all of the people who have donated the tools, materials, and time to making the studio experience possible and enriching for our guests.
If you would like to contribute to the studio please refer to the Art Studio Wish List. Items on our Wish List are subject to change as need changes.
The studio will accept other donations not on the Wish List. Please call 474-7002 with questions regarding other items not specifically listed.
The studio does NOT accept any glass containers/objects or plastic milk/soda bottles.
