Note: access to the de Young may be impacted on 12/7 due to SF Rec and Parks’ Holiday Tree Lighting.
Open Tuesday – Sunday 9:30 am – 5:15 pm
Collect and examine materials from a favorite place in nature.
By Jill McLennan, Senior Teaching Artist
Did you know that you can make a view camera using simple materials you may have at home?
By Raphael Noz, Senior Teaching Artist
Create a simple collage landscape representing an ideal place, focusing on the horizon line.
By Hannah Freeman, Senior Teaching Artist
Discover and make printing tools, and consider the intersection of color and mark making.
In this project you will use found materials to put on a yard show with a social message for your community.
By Jill McLennan, senior teaching artist
With Halloween upon us, what better time to look closely and think about how a costume can tell a story?
By Raphael Noz, senior teaching artist
Create a mixed-media collage that shows a habitat and the animal that lives there.
By Jennie Smith, senior teaching artist
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
Make an illustrated book to capture moments of your life.
Let’s build a diorama inside or outside of the box that the art supplies arrived in.
Learn the basics of paint making, following and creating recipes with different pigments and binders.
By Hannah Freeman, senior teaching artist
Explore forms the way artists do, by twisting a flat piece of paper into unexpected shapes.
