Please note: access to the de Young may be impacted 7/20 due to the AIDS Walk. Allow extra time to arrive.
Open today 9:30 am – 5:15 pm
Let’s build a diorama inside or outside of the box that the art supplies arrived in.
By Jill McLennan, senior teaching artist
Artworks tell multiple stories.
How do objects represent wealth, power, and privilege?
Materials used in art can give us clues to the artist’s process, techniques, and ways of thinking. They can also spark our understanding of the artwork.
What do you see? What do you feel? Art can make us experience a range of emotions.
How does visual density affect how you look at an artwork?
What do your beliefs mean to you? How do objects represent your beliefs?
Make an illustrated book to capture moments of your life.
By Jennie Smith, senior teaching artist
Never has the ritual of washing our hands been more critical than today.
By Thomas Wu
Create a portrait inspired by Andrea McCoy Harvey’s Afro Goddess, included in The de Young Open exhibition.
By Andrea McCoy Harvey, artist and art teacher
The subject of power is all around us.
By devorah major
Listen to the Legion of Honor’s winter 2020 organ music, and take a closer look at the concert’s featured artworks.