Children’s Workshop at the Fenimore Art Museum

Two-Day Storybook and Illustration Workshop for Kids at Fenimore Art Museum

Two-Day Storybook and Illustration Workshop for Kids at Fenimore Art Museum

When

November 9, 2024    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Where

Fenimore Art Museum
5798 STATE HIGHWAY 80 (P.O.BOX 800), Cooperstown, NY, 13326

Event Type

Storybook and Illustration Workshop for Kids (ages 9-14)

Two-day workshop: Saturday & Sunday, November 9 & 10 at 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. each day

Registration required: $100 members, $115 non-members

COOPERSTOWN, NY — Fenimore Art Museum will offer a two-day Storybook and Illustration Workshop for Kids on Saturday & Sunday, November 9 & 10 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. each day. In this special workshop for children (ages 9-14), participants will learn how to combine illustration and writing by taking one of their ideas and creating their own storybook. Manager of Arts Education, Kevin Gray, will first tour participants through the exhibition, Young at Art: The Caldecott Collection of Children’s Book Illustrations, showing how award-winning illustrators created their artworks. Participants will then write story drafts, pair them with drawings they have made, and finish by learning to make a hand-bound book containing their story. For ages 9-14. Registration required: $100 members, $115 non-members. More information at FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

Photo courtesy of the Fenimore Art Museum.

Photo courtesy of the Fenimore Art Museum.