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Family Art Day-Build your Story Layers!

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Ages: 0 to 100

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Class Description

Join educators from the Hirshhorn Art School for a collaborative art-making adventure inspired by artist Mark Bradford’s Pickett’s Charge (2017), a monumental artwork stretching nearly the length of a football field and installed inside the Hirshhorn Museum. Bradford is known for transforming everyday materials—posters, paper, and layered surfaces—into powerful works that explore history, memory, and the stories embedded in our communities.


Using Bradford’s process as inspiration, participants will reflect on their own important memories and experiences. Together, we’ll experiment with layering, tearing, and assembling materials to create a large collaborative artwork that reflects the many stories, perspectives, and identities that shape our communities. This workshop invites families to think about how personal memories connect to larger histories—and how art can bring those layers together in one shared piece.


About the Hirshhorn

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the national museum of modern and contemporary art and a leading voice for 21st-century art and culture. Part of the Smithsonian, the Hirshhorn is located prominently on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Its holdings encompass one of the most important collections of postwar American and European art in the world. The Hirshhorn presents diverse exhibitions and offers an array of public programs on the art of our time—free to all. The Hirshhorn Museum is open Mondays noon–5:30 PM and Tuesdays–Sundays 10 AM–5:30 PM (except December 25).


Hirshhorn Art School is the first dedicated art-making classroom in the Museum, offering Open Studios on Saturdays between 10 AM and 2 PM and additional programming for artists of all ages, especially children from birth to age 6 and teens. For more information, visit hirshhorn.si.edu. Follow the Museum on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.


Teaching Artists

Lea Winston and Domenica Guaman Ochoa


In-Person Instruction

Cost - Free

Schedule

Date Day From To
5/30/26 Sat 1:00 PM 3:00 PM

Contact

Katherine Duncan
(202) 240-2451
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Location

2208 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE Washington, District of Columbia 20020 US

Please bring any family photos and mementos that you would like to use in your artwork.

This workshop will take place in the Gallery. Enter through Door A.

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Ages: 0 to 100