Storytime (PROGRAM CHANGE)
This week’s Wednesday program will be Art Cart: Harmony of Nonsense to accommodate local spring breaks and allow as many young artists as possible to join us!
Storytime: Rosie Revere Engineer will be back next Wednesday at 10am. Meet us in the lobby.
Do this at home! Use your imagination to construct your own three-dimensional box inspired by artist Joseph Cornell. Instructions here.
ABOUT STORYTIME
Join Hirshhorn Kids on Wednesdays for a one-of-a-kind Storytime experience! Each week offers a fun and fresh theme for our youngest artists and their adults. Get a fun and hands-on introduction to a new artwork each week, and participate in a joyful read-aloud filled with music, stories, and movement. Then, stay and play while your little artist creates. No reservations or tickets required. Nursing caregivers are welcome. Stroller parking is available in the Hirshhorn Lobby. An ASL Interpreter may be requested for this program; two weeks advance notice is appreciated. For a group of ten or more, please contact mcgettigant@si.edu to reserve a program in advance.
Storytime: Rosie Revere Engineer
Girls can do it! Put on your red bandana and join us for a special Storytime. We’ll look at an installation by artist Barbara Kruger, participate in a lively read-aloud of Rosie Revere, Engineer, by Andrea Beaty, and engineer our own works of art.
Meet in the Museum Lobby.
Do this at home! Transform a box into a unique space inspired by Siah Armajani. Instructions here.
ABOUT STORYTIME
Join Hirshhorn Kids on Wednesdays for a one-of-a-kind storytime experience! Each week offers a fun and fresh theme for our youngest artists and their adults. Get a fun and hands-on introduction to a new artwork each week, and participate in a joyful read-aloud filled with music, stories, and movement. Then, stay and play while your little artist creates. No reservations or tickets required. Nursing caregivers are welcome. Stroller parking is available in the Hirshhorn Lobby. An ASL Interpreter may be requested for this program; two weeks advance notice is appreciated. For a group of ten or more, please contact mcgettigant@si.edu to reserve a program in advance.
Maker Morning: Build Day
For kids (and adults!) of all ages
Do you know a budding architect? Let’s build! Join Hirshhorn Kids and our friends from the District of Columbia Public Schools- Arts, Boolean Girl, District of Columbia Public Library, and children’s author Andrea Beaty for a hands-on exploration of design and building. We’ll celebrate student artists from DCPS, and feature activities to get everyone building and dreaming.
Find us on the Hirshhorn Plaza and throughout the Museum. In the event of inclement weather this event may be modified.
WHAT’S HAPPENING
- Large Scale Map featuring artwork from DCPS student Build Day projects
- Hands-on Maker Stations including sculpture design and more!
- Storytime with Andrea Beaty featuring Iggy Peck, Architect and Aaron Slater, Illustrator in the Lerner Room at 10:15 am, 10:45 am, and 11:45 am
- Circuitry workshops with Boolean Girl
- DC Public Library Storytimes and family resources
- Tot Building Zone
Want to explore architecture before or after this event? Try these activities in the classroom or at home!
Bundtshaft Cake-Off: Bake a Mini Hirshhorn
Join us again next month! Maker Morning is the Hirshhorn’s free series held on a select Saturday of each month that invites kids of all ages to experience contemporary art through interactive hands-on making activities. Each month, we’ll introduce you to new activities and ideas, focused on this year’s theme of Be Transformed. Drop in and explore the Museum through engaging interactives, kids tours, and more. Activities take place throughout the Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Art Cart: Build with Balance
How do you like to build? Do you stack, balance, or otherwise combine materials? Join us at this week’s Art Cart to explore how different sculptures in Put It This Way were built and experiment with how we can create sculptures!
Find the Art Cart on the Third Level to pick up your balancing materials.
Do this at home! Balance your own mobile inspired by artist Alexander Calder! Instructions here.
ABOUT THE ART CART
Want to make art inspired by your favorite Hirshhorn works on view? The Art Cart offers young artists a hands-on maker experience during their visit to the Hirshhorn. Each week’s Art Cart offers a fresh and fun theme featuring an artwork on view, an artmaking activity to do at the Museum, and kids projects to extend the fun at home!
The Art Cart is free; no registration required. Drop in any Thursday between 10am-12pm.
Stroller Parking is available in the Lobby and the Lower Level.
Art Cart: Build and Layer
Let’s give thanks for the power of art! Join us at the Art Cart to look closely at Mark Bradford’s: Pickett’s Charge and explore how stories are remembered. Then, artists can create their own layered works and help make a world we are thankful for together!
Find the Art Cart on the Third Level to pick up your layering materials.
Do this at home! Reveal the layers within a story that matters to you with Mark Bradford. Instructions here.
ABOUT THE ART CART
Want to make art inspired by your favorite Hirshhorn works on view? The Art Cart offers young artists a hands-on maker experience during their visit to the Hirshhorn. Each week’s Art Cart offers a fresh and fun theme featuring an artwork on view, an artmaking activity to do at the Museum, and kids projects to extend the fun at home!
The Art Cart is free; no registration required. Drop in any Thursday between 10am-12pm.
Stroller Parking is available in the Lobby and the Lower Level.
(For Kids) Build Day
Do you know a budding architect? Let’s build! Join Hirshhorn Kids and our friends from the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) Arts and Boolean Girl for a hands-on exploration of design and building. We’ll celebrate student artists from DCPS, and feature activities to get everyone building and dreaming.
Find us in the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden. In the event of inclement weather this event may be modified .
What’s happening:
- Large-scale map featuring artwork from DCPS student Build Day projects
- Hands-on maker stations including sculpture design, LEGOⓇ building, and more!
- Circuitry workshops with Boolean Girl
- Tot building zone and reading nook
- Architecture touch table with architectural materials and models
- Noon: Architecture tour. Meet at the large red sculpture, Are Years What? (For Marianne Moore)
Want to explore architecture before or after this event? Try these activities in the classroom or at home!
Bundtshaft Cake-Off: Bake a Mini Hirshhorn
Help us stay safe and healthy! Review Smithsonian health and safety guidelines before your visit
Wheelchair accessible entrance to the Sculpture Garden is on the National Mall side of the Garden.
Stroller Parking is available.
