These free programs are created especially for local students and their families, and designed in conjunction with exhibition programming. The AMAM is committed to providing quality programming to
increase student exposure to all aspects of the visual arts.

Community Day
Friday, October 16 – 12pm until 3pm
“Community Arts and Culture Day”

Four area organizations have teamed up to offer activities and workshops to area students when Oberlin City Schools are off for NEOEA Day, Friday, October 16. Parents looking for something to do can bring your young learners out, where a variety of activities and cultural events await. Most activities are geared towards primary school-aged children. Adult chaperones are required at all locations. All activities are free, and open to the public.

From 10am until 3pm at the Oberlin Depot, there will be historic games and activities offered by the Oberlin Heritage Center. Children can try writing with a quill and ink, play marbles, express their creativity with craft projects, walk on stilts, and try other fun outdoor and indoor games.

Beginning at 12pm until 3pm, the Allen Memorial Art Museum will offer a mask making activity and West African Drumming Workshop, instructed by artists from Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio. AMAM student docents will also help with this fun day of creating and learning about art from West and Central Africa.

Also beginning at 12pm and running until 3pm, FAVA is offering a LEGO and block building workshop. Let your inner child run wild with these classic building toys. Construct vehicles, buildings, robots or whatever you want! Parts and pieces will be provided, but please note that participants will not be allowed to take projects home.  Instead, photographs will be taken of completed models and posted for all to see so that building blocks may be saved for future use.  Pre-registration is not required!

From 12pm until 5pm, the Oberlin Public Library is holding “Game On!” – a day of games and activities for kids ages 8 –18! This will be held in the meeting room of the library.

FAVA-AMAM Workshop
Saturdays, November 7, 14 and 21
December 5
1 to 4pm

This popular collaboration between the AMAM and the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts returns. Geared especially towards middle and high school age students, this workshop provides instruction and materials free of charge. For more information, visit the museum’s website. The Fall 2009 workshop will be instructed by Jean Weigl, and will focus on gallery drawing in the AMAM.

For more information or to register, contact Jason Trimmer, Curator of Education, at 775-8671.