Big Art Weekend
The museum’s annual family celebration of art will take place on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 in 2025.
The museum’s annual family celebration of art will take place on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 in 2025.
Join in to play and create collaboratively in and with the natural world.
This free program provides art-making opportunities for parents and families to create with their children.
Join in to create & play with sand globes and each other! Making sand globes from moist sand and water is easy-- and it feels like magic!
Enjoy a day of art and family fun at SFMOMA! These special days include art-making activities for the whole family in our Koret Education Center, located on Floor 2, plus additional activities and activations. Admission to the museum is free for up to four adults accompanying one child or teen (eighteen and younger).
Thinking about starting your own graphic novel? This class will help you get started!
Teens, join us for a fun, FREE creative ceramic night! Learn painting techniques to personalize a unique ceramic piece with vibrant colors.
Join us for an afternoon of playful collaborative sculpture-making using dried Agapanthus flowers at Berkeley’s Codornices Park.
Join us for a fun and relaxing evening at Creative Ceramics Night!
Games and sports have taken over the museum, and we need YOU to help us create an in-gallery game that will teach visitors about the many sports-inspired artworks on view!
Centennial Weekend Celebration: Free Saturdays
Help us make a game for the exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture!
Join us at ArtWalk – the Tri Valley’s premiere one day art festival. Over 200 artists display their works on sidewalks and plazas, in parks and galleries, surrounded by boutique shops, wine tasting rooms and restaurants in historic downtown Livermore.
Featuring California Artists original works by artists and craftspeople bring a wide variety of products to interest entire families and encourage wider public attendance at major festivals presented in the Bay Area by California Artists.
Teens join us for this free event! Get creative and make your own airbrush tees and stenciled totes. This free event is for teens ages 13 -17 only. Registration is required.
Join us at the gorgeous Paradise Beach Park for a fun-filled family painting session.
Join Park Rangers in celebrating the autumn equinox.
Come join us at Backesto Park for the Luna Park Chalk Art Festival. Artists of all ages and abilities are welcome!
Celebrate the creativity of the artists of Creative Growth, the first U.S. organization dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities. Sister organizations Creativity Explored and NIAD will join in to bring you a festive day full of art and accessibility!
Explore She Bends: Neon as Soulcraft at MakeArt Family Day!
Join us for a FREE day of art making with Community Arts, activities at Bedford Gallery, and live music on the Rudney Plaza at the Lesher Center.
It’s Summer Stride time at the San Francisco Public Library, and SFMOMA is joining the fun for the third year in a row! Join Sendy Santamaria, author and illustrator of Yenebi’s Drive to School and SFPL’s 2024 Summer Stride Artist, as she compiles all the ways artists (professional and kid alike) make mundane moments joyful.
Learn the step by step art of anime drawing from former Simpsons artist, Carlos Nieto III. All materials provided. Sign up in Library. Geared toward 6th-12th graders.
Come celebrate a new art installation, SUPERBLOOMS, and meet the artist. Enjoy colorful murals by multi-media artist Tosha Stimage, with DJ music and hands-on art activities.
It’s Summer Stride time at the San Francisco Public Library, and SFMOMA is joining the fun for the third year in a row! Join Sendy Santamaria, author and illustrator of Yenebi’s Drive to School and SFPL’s 2024 Summer Stride Artist, as she compiles all the ways artists (professional and kid alike) make mundane moments joyful.
The Summer Olympics have arrived at China Camp! Squirrels take the lead in arboreal gymnastics, grasshoppers beat out the competition in the long jump, brown pelicans get a 10 out of 10 at the high dive, and woodpeckers nab acorns and dodge interceptions at forest rugby.
A flock of sanderlings shimmers across the water. Marbled godwits poke their long beaks into the mud.
The September Free Family Day activities will be inspired by Creative Growth: The House That Art Built. Check back later this summer for more details!
Come and join the fun as we celebrate the longest day of the year with your loved ones! We will craft fairy and gnome houses from natural materials around the park.
Enjoy a day of art and family fun at SFMOMA! These special days include art-making activities for the whole family in our Koret Education Center, located on Floor 2, plus additional activities and activations.
The Family Art Making table offers a drop-in art project activity led by professional teaching artists on select Saturdays from 11 am to 3 pm.
Those amazing and so-talented chalk artists are coming back to City Center May 18 and 19 for the Center’s Chalk Art Festival. Watching them work is fascinating, so take time to see 10 professional chalk artists create their colorful and imaginative works of art.
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