Events

Nurture your early learner’s creativity through art, music, movement, and play! Art Start invites toddlers and preschoolers to explore in a welcoming environment that encourages curiosity, imagination, and growth. Each session features a story, song, and art-making activity, plus a special letter or instrument of the day to spark hands-on discovery for families and caregivers...

Weave a unique tapestry using found objects, fabric, and other unconventional materials inspired by AMFA's exhibition, Uncommon Threads in Contemporary Art. An experienced textile artist will guide you through the weaving process and reference the artwork on display. A visit to the galleries will inspire the artwork you create during this workshop. Other materials that...

Experience artist Tim Youd’s meditative act of retyping novels one keystroke at a time. Over the course of 10 days, Youd continues his 100 Novels Project here at AMFA by retyping Charles Portis’s True Grit amongst the art on view in A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time. The 100 Novels Project is an...

Explore the enduring legacy of Charles Portis’s novel True Grit with artist Tim Youd and writer Jay Jennings while A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time is on view at AMFA. Youd’s 100 Novels Project has taken him around the country in his practice of retyping 100 works of American literature, a durational...

Experience artist Tim Youd’s meditative act of retyping novels one keystroke at a time. Over the course of 10 days, Youd continues his 100 Novels Project here at AMFA by retyping Charles Portis’s True Grit amongst the art on view in A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time. The 100 Novels Project is an...

Using dot markers, guests will focus on slowing down and layering color to create unique pointillist artworks inspired by AMFA's exhibition, A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time. At Creative Saturdays, guests of all ages and abilities are welcome. Just drop in and enjoy a free, family-friendly art-making activity in AMFA's Windgate...

Experience artist Tim Youd’s meditative act of retyping novels one keystroke at a time. Over the course of 10 days, Youd continues his 100 Novels Project here at AMFA by retyping Charles Portis’s True Grit amongst the art on view in A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time. The 100 Novels Project is an...

Jump into the joy of Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play!—a rollicking musical adventure straight from the pages of Mo Willems’ beloved, award-winning children’s books. This high-energy show features best friends Gerald the Elephant and Piggie the Pig as they navigate the ups and downs of friendship, big feelings, and unexpected surprises. When...

Jump into the joy of Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play!—a rollicking musical adventure straight from the pages of Mo Willems’ beloved, award-winning children’s books. This high-energy show features best friends Gerald the Elephant and Piggie the Pig as they navigate the ups and downs of friendship, big feelings, and unexpected surprises. When...

Create unique colorful artworks with a monoprinting technique that is rapidly growing in popularity: gelli plate printmaking. Gelli plate printmaking uses minimal equipment, is affordable to practice, and is easy on the body to work with. You will learn to layer colors, incorporate stencils, and use found objects to print one-of-a-kind images onto paper. This...

Experience artist Tim Youd’s meditative act of retyping novels one keystroke at a time. Over the course of 10 days, Youd continues his 100 Novels Project here at AMFA by retyping Charles Portis’s True Grit amongst the art on view in A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time. The 100 Novels Project is an...

Jump into the joy of Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play!—a rollicking musical adventure straight from the pages of Mo Willems’ beloved, award-winning children’s books. This high-energy show features best friends Gerald the Elephant and Piggie the Pig as they navigate the ups and downs of friendship, big feelings, and unexpected surprises. When...