Our co-op class has been studying art and music during the month of January. Today we met up with a few other homeschool families to explore the newly-renovated Columbus Museum of Art. My sister Reenie and niece Ava also joined us. Amazingly, admission is free on Sundays! We were very impressed with the art galleries and especially with all of the hands-on activities for the children. We had a wonderful time!
Check out Ray's awesome Chihuly hat!
This piece got our vote for "weirdest, but very awesome" artwork:
(I'm sorry I didn't get a good shot of the name of the piece or the artist. This is made out of some kind of plastic and real hair. It looked SO real!)
We participated in an art challenge by putting together a 4x4 piece puzzle of an art piece. In this shot Reenie is looking at the original artwork and trying to figure out the puzzle.
We had the most fun in the interactive children's area.
A magnetic face made by Ray:
Adam, the living sculpture -
I'm embarrassed to admit that I've lived in Columbus all my life and this was only my second visit to the museum. We had so much fun today that we're considering purchasing a family membership.
As part of our art studies, we've really enjoyed reading the "Katie" books by James Mayhew. They are all about a little girl named Katie who visits the art museum with her grandmother. She climbs in and out of the pictures and interacts with the people in them. The paintings in the stories are all famous paintings. We have read them over and over again and have had great conversations about some of the world's best and most famous paintings. They are fun stories! I highly recommend them.
More about our recent art masterpieces later this week....
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