Family Art Event

• Special Event
• Family-Friendly tag

• Event Date: Thursday, April 12, 2018
• Time: 5:00 pm–7:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

The Museum will be open late during the Boneyard Arts Festival for this special program for families with young children! Stop by on your way home from work or daycare to join our staff in some hands-on fun for little learners. Local artist and art educator Evelyne Tardy will lead visitors in a community art project and two take-home projects.

Children and their accompanying adults can learn about the Adinkra fabric painting of Ghana and Chinese brush painting. Participants will learn about the meaning of the symbols traditionally used in creating the works of art that are used on Ghanaian walls, pottery, and clothes and can create their own bandanas with Adinkra-style stamps to take with them. They can also draw their own symbols of special meaning to them as inspired by the art form. Traditional Chinese techniques of painting bamboo and plum blossom trees will the taught with bamboo brushes and india ink.Participants will be able to take their paintings with them.

About the Artist

“I am an art educator with a strong background in art therapy. I love to create and to inspire. I find my own inspiration around me on a daily basis through colors, ideas, words, thoughts and emotions. I teach art at Cunningham Children’s Home, where I have been for five years, and I previously taught In Gilman, Illinois. My current interest with art include using art as therapy for those who have experienced extreme trauma as a way to build up self-esteem and to heal wounds.”