Guided Tour: Mark Bradford Pickett’s Charge
MEET IN THE LOBBY
30–60 Minutes
FREE
Registration is not required
Join us for a guided experience of the Hirshhorn’s unparalleled collections and groundbreaking exhibitions. Each tour offers an opportunity to engage with select works on view and the art and artists of our time through close looking, critical thinking, and conversation. Explore Hirshhorn exhibitions, encounter the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, make connections, and learn new ways to create through common threads, ideas, and practices in artmaking today.
Joining is easy! Meet your Gallery Guide in the Hirshhorn Lobby.
Group of 10 or more people? Request a guided experience for your community group using our online request form.
The Hirshhorn’s campus, exhibitions, and public programs are accessible. Please let us know how we can tailor your visit to make your experience more inclusive. An ASL interpreter can be requested for this program; two weeks’ advance notice is appreciated. Email us at HirshhornExperience@si.edu with requests and questions.
Art Cart: Lines and Layers
How do you tell stories? Artists often use their materials to help tell stories. Join us to explore the lines and layers of Mark Bradford’s Pickett’s Charge, and to tell your own stories with art.
Find the Art Cart on the Third Level and pick up your storytelling 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 Saturday between 10 am and 1 pm.
Storytime: Think Outside the Crayon Box!
We’re switching up Storytime to a drop-in experience while we prepare new exhibitions for spring openings. Join Hirshhorn educators any time between 10 am–noon; we will host read-alouds at 10:30 am and 11:30 am.
What materials do you use to make art? Contemporary artists often experiment with unusual materials. Join us for a close look at artist Mark Bradford’s Pickett’s Charge and a read-aloud of A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch, then create some unusual art of your own!
Meet on the Third Level.
Do this at home! Meet the tinker tray. Much more than a vessel of materials, tinker trays encourage loosely structured, open-ended play while developing fine motor skills, creativity, and imagination. 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. If there are access services or accommodations that can make your experience more inclusive (e.g., ASL interpretation, live captioning, etc.), please contact hmsgeducation@si.edu; 1–2 week’s advance notice is recommended but not required. For a group of ten or more, please contact mcgettigant@si.edu to reserve a program in advance.
Art Cart: Layer Away
Join us for an Art Cart of building up and taking away! Together, we will explore lines and layers in art, stories and history. Young artists will take a close look at artist Mark Bradford’s work, Pickett’s Charge, and layer lines to make their own collage story inspired by Bradford and his practice!
Find the Art Cart on the Third Level and 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 Saturday between 10 am and 1 pm.
