This September you can get more for your kids than just “15 minutes of fame” – you can bring them to the 92nd Street Y Children’s Warhol Festival. Thanks to the generosity of the Mugrabi Collection, we’re exhibiting 80 original paintings that Andy Warhol created in 1983 especially for children. The paintings – colorful, strong images of trains, toys, apples and the like – will be hung low on the walls, at a level comfortable for young viewers. Warhol first showed these works in Switzerland and they have been on exhibit several times in the years since. While the paintings have been shown before, 92Y is the first organization to offer free art workshops alongside the exhibit. Over three weekends in September, kids can use some of the same techniques and principles that Warhol used – silkscreening, making patterns with rubber stamps – to transform the ordinary into…art! Robert Gilson, director of 92Y’s School of the Arts, says, “Using the same techniques as Warhol, playing with his ideas to create a new work of art and seeing the connection between what hangs on a wall and what comes from their hands – it all adds up to a very special chance for a child to interact with and feel kinship to a master artist of the 20th century.”
Both the exhibit and the workshops are free; workshops require advance rergistration, but you can drop into the exhibit and our silkscreening studio anytime, Saturdays and Sundays from 12 to 4 pm. A complete schedule of workshops is below.
EXHIBIT HOURS: Monday-Friday, please call 212.415.5563 for hours. Weekends, 12-4 pm.
To register for workshops, call 212.415.5562.
Disclosure: I was not paid to write this post.
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