Board Game Making Workshop for Kids (ages 8-12)
Saturday, October 12 • 1:00-3:30 p.m.
Fenimore Art Museum
Registration required • $25 members, $30 non-members
COOPERSTOWN, NY — Fenimore Art Museum will offer a Board Game Making Workshop for Kids ages 8-12 on Saturday, October 12 from 1:00-3:30 p.m. Participants will create their own board game to take home. This fun workshop is inspired by the children’s book “Jumanji” by author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg which is featured in our special exhibition, Young at Art: A Selection of Caldecott Book Illustrations. Children will decorate a game board, design their own play pieces, and use them to create their own variation of a classic board game from the 19th century, which they will then learn and have a chance to play with their fellow participants. Registration is required. Cost: $25 members, $30 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.