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MFAH Family Day: Let’s Hear It for the Kids! A “Días de los Niños del Mundo” Community Celebration

Sunday, Apr 07, 2013
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Beck Building
5601 Main Street Map & Directions

Law Building
1001 Bissonnet Map & Directions

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MFAH Family Days take place on select Sundays throughout the year, with opportunities for families to explore and make art, see performances, watch movies, hear stories, and much more!

Today, families are invited to make exciting discoveries about art from across the globe and to celebrate Houston's youth culture right here at home. This program is held in partnership with Días de los Niños del Mundo, a yearlong education and outreach initiative of Society for the Performing Arts. 

  • Create 3-D works of art inspired by Eduardo Chillida's outdoor sculpture
  • Discover how an artist used science to design a work of art at our Gallery Cart for families. Create a community sculpture, too.
  • Sketch in the European galleries
  • Search beautiful modern pop-ups to discover the hidden yellow square in each illustration at storytime with friendly MFAH educators (1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.)
  • Explore the endless directions a story can take by joining in a storytelling game in the galleries led by Janine Joseph of HGOco (3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.)
  • Listen to a poetry and spoken-word performance by local poets and teens from SPA's Movement Toward Literacy program (2 p.m.)

Family Programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Debra Anne Waite and J. Harrison Itz, Junior League of Houston, Inc. and Target.

All education programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive endowment income from funds provided by Caroline Wiess Law; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Favrot Fund; and Gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.