TARGET FIRST SATURDAYS OFFERS FREE FAMILY FUN AT NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER
2/5/2009 12:05:48 PM
Monthly Event Features Big Ideas, Art Projects, Tours, and Performances
Dallas, Texas – The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to welcome back Target as the 2009 Presenting Sponsor of Target First Saturdays. Target First Saturdays, held the first Saturday of every month, features free admission hours from 10 am to 2 pm, NasherKids Live! performances, a Passport for kids, and monthly themes that get children thinking about Big Ideas.
A key component of Target First Saturdays is the NasherKids Passport, a small, take-home folder with monthly activity cards, which extends the learning experience at home and rewards children for repeat visits to the Nasher Sculpture Center. Prizes will be awarded to those children who have participated in 4, 8, and 12 Target First Saturdays as indicated by their stamped passport.
Monthly Activities:
Family Tours (10:15 am, 11:15 am, 12:15 pm)
Discover and discuss each month’s Big Idea on an interactive tour for the whole family. These 15-minute tours connect all levels of learners with art and allow children to create their own definitions of the month’s theme.
Art Scavenger Hunt (10 am – 2 pm)
Children can exercise their detective skills to search the Nasher for art related to the month’s Big Idea through an art hunt filled with thought-provoking questions. Complete the hunt for a special prize!
Children’s Art Activity (10 am – 12 noon)
Create unique artworks and apply knowledge from the tour and scavenger hunt. Each activity will encourage creativity and exploration of media and process.
Art in Action: Sculpture Demo Table and Artist at Work (10 am –12:30 pm)
Experience how art is made through an interactive artist demonstration focusing on sculpture techniques and processes, materials, and hands-on learning for young children.
Yoga in the Garden (11:30 am)
Presented by YogaSport.
Storytime with the Dallas Public Library (12:30 pm)
Share in the joy of reading with engaging storytellers from the Dallas Public Library.
NasherKids Live! (1 pm)
Join in the fun with exciting interactive performances for families and young children.
NasherKids Meal Available at Nasher Cafe (11 am – 2pm)
Monthly Themes:
March 2009: Process
Activity: Crayon Resist Drawings
Take Home: Marbled Paper
April 2009: Creativity
Activity: Artist Aprons
Take Home: Surrealist Shapes
May 2009: Environment
Activity: Designer Birdhouses
Take Home: Neighborhood Ecosystems
June 2009: Technology
Activity: Animal Machine Hybrids
Take Home: Secret Spy Drawings
July 2009: Collaboration
Activity: Art in Parts
Take Home: Collaboration Comics
August 2009: Personality
Activity: Personal Visors
Take Home: Personality Photos
September 2009: Experience
Activity: Take-Along Totes
Take Home: Experience Journals
About the Nasher Sculpture Center:
Open since October 2003, the Nasher Sculpture Center is dedicated to the display and study of modern and contemporary sculpture. The Center is located on a 2.4-acre site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the heart of the Dallas Arts District. Renzo Piano, a world-renowned architect and winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1998, is the architect of the Center’s 55,000-square-foot-building. Piano worked in collaboration with landscape architect Peter Walker on the design of the two-acre sculpture garden.
The Nasher Sculpture Center was the longtime dream of the late Raymond and Patsy Nasher, who together formed one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary sculpture in the world. The Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection includes masterpieces by Calder, de Kooning, di Suvero, Giacometti, Hepworth, Kelly, Matisse, Miró, Moore, Picasso, Rodin, and Serra, among others, and continues to grow and evolve.
The Nasher Sculpture Center presents rotating exhibitions of works from the Nasher Collection as well as special exhibitions drawn from other museums and private collections. In addition to indoor gallery space, the Center contains an auditorium, education and research facilities, a cafe, and a store.
The Nasher Sculpture Center is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11am to 5 pm, Thursday from 11am to 9 pm, and from 10 am to 5 pm on the first Saturday of the month. Saturday Night in the City begins in April with extended hours until 11 pm. Regular admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, $5 for students, and free for members and children 12 and under. For more information, visit www.NasherSculptureCenter.org.
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For more information and photos, please contact:
Kristen Mills Gibbins
Communications Manager
214.242.5177
kgibbins@NasherSculptureCenter.org