Family Art Workshops
Stop by the Albuquerque Museum School during your visit to make an art project. We welcome families to the Museum with opportunities to get creative together.
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All dates
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May 2
Hi, Desert!
Take a trip back in time with inspiration from the High Desert Ballyhoo photography exhibit! Families can create playful, retro-style advertisements celebrating a visit to New Mexico. Using magazines, collage materials, and a splash of imagination, design a fun and silly ad for the Land of Enchantment.
May 16
Postcard for a Loved One
Inspired by the exhibition, Fred Harvey’s Route 66 and the history of travel and hospitality, create a one-of-a-kind postcard. Draw what you love most about New Mexico and write a message inviting someone special to visit. We’ll provide all the materials—just bring your creativity!
June 6
Burque Pride
Celebrate Albuquerque with us! Inspired by the opening of The Other Route 66: 100 Years of People, Identity, and Place in Albuquerque, families can design their own custom stickers showing love for the city. Use sticker paper, markers, and colorful supplies to create something uniquely “Burque.”
June 20
Perfect Paper Landscapes
Imagine a beautiful forest, a whimsical tundra, or just a cozy outdoor picnic! Inspired by The Woods Before Sunrise: Environment and Place in New Mexico’s Black Contemporary, families will use scissors and layered decorative papers to create vibrant, 3D-style landscapes.
Instructors
Landis Pulido is an artist, educator, and healing justice practitioner who believes in co-creating a learning environment which strives to meet each community member where they are. Through the lens of Popular Education, she works towards co-creating an inclusive and safe environment. She believes in bringing in the breath, movement, and healing into the arts and creative space to invite wholeness and imagination.
Remy Sinegal was born in California, coming to the University of New Mexico for college where she received a Bachelors in Art with a minor in Medieval Studies. She is a poet and illustrator, using a variety of media such as pencils, paints, pastels, sculpture and digital media. History both true and fictional inspire the themes of her work. Inspired by multicultural mythology, folklore, as well as modern influences like animated media, wildlife and how everyone's personal experiences shape the world around them. Believing that there is magic in embracing the mundanity of life she tries to create something exceptional and fun every time she picks up a pencil. The art of storytelling to pass on cultural superstitions inspires her to write, and illustrate her own fantastical tales, which she hopes to bring to life one day through graphic novels or animation.
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