DCM is CLOSED | September 3–13 | For Annual Maintenance
DCM is CLOSED | September 3–13 | For Annual Maintenance
Displays of children’s artistic expression are often limited to the family refrigerator. Any child, upon seeing his or her creative endeavors hanging in a real art gallery gets a memorable and validating experience. It doesn’t happen every day, except for the artists whose work appears in the Museum’s Good Show! Gallery.
Filling the Good Show! Gallery with children’s thoughtful work offers many unique opportunities for local students, their families, and for Museum staff in investigating the impact of creating art on critical thinking and creative development. Targeting title one schools, the Museum’s Arts Specialist, works closely with school administrators and teachers to develop art projects that support art, math, science, and literacy curriculum.
Painting with preschool children is all about PLAYFUL EXPERIMENTATION.
Painting OUTSIDE with natural materials brought the students at Hobson School, a play- and nature-based preschool in Naperville, extra inspiration as they used splashes of color, brushes, and print-making techniques to express their creativity.
Their artwork displays the joy of creating. . . the wondrous energy of childhood (in the summertime) and the abundance of freedom with which children approach creative endeavors.
Thank you to program supporters Ecolab and Ronald L. McDaniel Foundation. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
