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At-Home Art Activities for Kids & Families

The Albright-Knox Learning and Creativity team has developed at-home art activities for families and kids of all ages. (We also have at-home activities for adults.) We are working on more all the time, so keep checking back.

We also encourage you to check out artist Julia Bottoms's art activity for kids, What Is a Protest?

Inspired by Collection Works, Public Art, and Special Exhibitions

Family Activity Inspired by Hervé Tullet: Shape and Color

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A collage of dark green, light green, red, and yellow pieces of paper on a blue background Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Esperanza Cortés’s Work in Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration

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A paper collage of a white daisy Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Raúl de Nieves’s Work in Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration

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A drawing with the word "PEACE" in the center and doves, flowers, and hearts all around it Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Ronny Quevedo’s Work in Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration

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A collage on black paper with the letter "M" made of small strips of red and blue paper Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration

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A hand holding up a paper sculpture Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Swoon’s Tree of Life in Swoon: Seven Contemplations

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Drawing of a tree Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Jun Kaneko's Dangos

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Paper dango Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Swoon’s Medea in Swoon: Seven Contemplations

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A drawing of a heart broken into different parts illustrating different emotions Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Betsy Casañas’s AK Public Art Mural

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Gifts wrapped in brown paper decorated with colored drawings Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Swoon’s Cosmos in Swoon: Seven Contemplations

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Three paper sculptures fastened together to make a large paper sculpture Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Rufino Tamayo's Women of Tehuantepec

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Cuts outs of different fruits arranged on top of a blank sheet of white paper Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Keir Johnston and Ernel Martinez's Welcome Wall

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A colorful drawing with shapes and words in different languages Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Linda Stark's Rainbow Rotation

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A tree branch with colored circles hanging off of strings attached to it Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Karel Appel's Cats

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Two people painting cats Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Sandra Cinto's Tempest in Red

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A person coloring a blue background around a shiny silver foil tree Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Fernand Leger's The Walking Flower

In English
En español

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A cardboard cutout of a walking flower Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Tam Van Tran's Untitled

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A boy gluing paper shapes to a piece of cardstock Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Norman Lewis's Street Music

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A person painting with watercolors on an oil pastel drawing Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Shantell Martin's Dance Everyday

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A drawing of orange lines and words Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Ingrid Calame's #313 Drawing (Tracings from Buffalo, NY)

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A white sheet of paper with different colored and textured crayon rubbings all over it Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Giacomo Balla's Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

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A colorful paper dog puppet on a popsicle stick Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Rogelio Polesello's Pintura (Painting)

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Overlapping circles in the shape of a diamond, all colored in Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Anne Arnold's Charlie

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A cardboard sculpture of a cat Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Marisol's Tea for Three

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A collage of a person with a cat Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Max Bill's Field of 32 Parts in 4 Colors

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An artwork made of triangles and rectangles in different colors Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Kenneth Noland's Wild Indigo

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Four artworks featuring different colored stripes Learn More

Family Activity Inspired by Henri Matisse

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An elaborate paper crown Learn More

Inspired by Books

(Please note: While these activities are inspired by books, you do not need to read the books to do the activities.)

Storytime & Artmaking: Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity

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Pumpkins and other fruit decorated with dots and arranged on a green piece of construction paper Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Starting Over in Sunset Park

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A drawing of three windows, one with a person, one with a girl, and one with a cat Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: When Julia Danced Bomba

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A maraca made out of a paper tube with a decorative paper taped around the outside Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Alma and How She Got Her Name

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The name "SAM" written in big block letters and filled with pictures and symbols Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: My Papi Has a Motorcycle

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A drawing of a mural on the side of a house. The mural features an older man and woman in colorful sweaters. Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Even Superheroes Have Bad Days

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A paper mask with a drawing of a person going on an outdoor walk Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Already a Butterfly

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A white oval with blue lines, green shapes, and a yellow dotted line Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Pilar's Worries

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A drawing of a person lying on a beach with blue wavy lines above them Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Last Stop on Market Street

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Drawing of a person sitting at a table, cars, sunglasses, and a window Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Our Class Is a Family

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A postcard with colorful flowers in green grass against a blue sky with a big yellow and orange sun Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You

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An accordion book with colorful flowers and the words "creative," "kind," and "funny" Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Tar Beach

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A collage of special places with a drawing of a person flying over them Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Julián is a Mermaid

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Paper dolls - a person, a shirt, and a mermaid tail Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Henri’s Scissors

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A paper collage of yellow flowers in a blue and white striped vase on a red background Learn More

Storytime & Artmaking: Uncle Andy’s Cats

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A drawing of four cats on a white paper - one black and white cat, one all-white cat, one white cat with brown spots, and one black cat Learn More

Inspired by Past Exhibitions

(Please note: While these activities are inspired by past exhibitions, you do not need to have seen the exhibition to do the activities.)

Activities Inspired by Swoon: Seven Contemplations (PDF)
Activities Inspired by Open House: Domestic Thresholds by Heather Hart, Edra Soto, and Rodney Taylor (PDF)
Activities Inspired by Anthony McCall: Dark Rooms, Solid Light (PDF)
Activities Inspired by We the People: New Art from the Collection (PDF)
Activities Inspired by Humble and Human: Treasures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts (PDF)
Activities Inspired by Out of Sight! Art of the Senses (PDF)
Activities Inspired by We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (PDF)

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Photograph by Tom Loonan

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