Performance: Barefoot Puppets
Can a spider defeat an elephant at tug-of-war? Overpower a python? Capture a cloud of hornets? With Anansi the Spider, world famous trickster, all things are possible…if you only have a plan!
Fun & Games in the Galleries
Pokemon Go!, 10 am-5 pm We’ll be dropping 3 lures per day across our campus. Grab your smart phone, load up on pokeballs, and start searching! Design Your Own Board Game, 11 am-3 pm We’ll provide boards, spaces, spinners, and cards – everything you need to get started to create and play your very own board game!
Art Discovery Playgroup
Come explore hands-on play and activity stations, make new friends, and learn about our world. Open to all children 0-5 with their caregivers. Activities may include dressing up in kimonos, light table play, changing art projects, a reading corner, a Tanabata wish tree, and Chinese New Year activities, and storytelling.
Africa Playgroup
Come explore hands-on play and activity stations, make new friends, and learn about our world. Open to all children 0-5 with their caregivers. Activities may include playing with Galimotos, building our own African Safari exhibit from Legos, printing Adinkra symbols, handling furs and skins from different animals featured in the museum’s Africa Hall, and creating a different clothespin animal each week.
Artist Lecture: Pamela Chatterton-Purdy
The artist behind the special exhibit Icons of the Civil Rights Movement provides insights into her work and her personal belief in the arts as a vehicle to achieving a more peaceful world. The exhibit features luminaries such as Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks presented in “Iconic” form (gold leaf with red background on wood panels) to represent the sacred nature of their sacrifice in the fight for racial equality.
Continuing Conversation: Eleanor Roosevelt
Following the Museums a la Carte lecture with Donald Blais, Jr., join docent Pat McCarthy for further discussion at the Wood Museum of Springfield History. Museum members only.
The Life and Times of Eleanor Roosevelt
A look back on the life and legacy of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The lecture will explore her early life to her times as political activist, First Lady and her time working on Human Rights as a delegate to the United Nations.
Paintings Hung in Parlors: May Alcott and other Nineteenth Century Women Artists
In the middle of the nineteenth century, May Alcott took art classes in Boston, wandered in the woods with pen and ink, started and ran her own art school, illustrated the first edition of her sister Louisa’s best-selling novel, Little Women, and left Massachusetts to sketch and study in London and Paris.
A Life in Opera: Celebrating the Trailblazing Talents of Leontyne Price
Join Kevin Rhodes and Ms. Othalie Graham for a very special afternoon of discussion and music - celebrating the life, legacy and talents of American soprano, Leontyne Price (whose 90th birthday falls just days before this event).
Continuing Conversation: Anne Sullivan’s Massachusetts
Following the Museums a la Carte lecture with Laurie Block, join docent Peggy Perry for further discussion in Blake Court in the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts.