The holiday season is known for encouraging quality time with family and friends. On a regular basis, the Georgia Museum of Art hosts monthly Family Days to bring families together to learn about works of art and experience creating their own masterpieces. With the holiday season quickly approaching, what better way to celebrate than a holiday-themed Family Day?
Past Family Days combined a variety of activities based around the permanent and temporary exhibitions at the museum. For example, the Plein Air Painting Family Day in September incorporated outdoor drawing that paralleled the outdoor painting of impressionists featured in the Terry Collection. Similarly the August Family Day, Women of the WPA, featured a printmaking activity reminiscent of the art showcased in that exhibition. This month’s Family Day is no different.
December’s Family Day will center around the exhibition “Material Georgia 1733-1900: Two Decades of Scholarship.” Curated by Dale L. Couch, the museum’s curator of decorative arts in the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, the exhibition features the furniture, metal work, textiles and pottery that demonstrate the past 20 years of research from the Green Center. The exhibition is located in the Philip Henry Alston Jr. and Virginia and Alfred Kennedy Galleries on the second floor of the museum.
At Family Day, families can partake in a few different activities centered around the holiday season, such as singing holiday songs with the Meridian Women’s Chorus. Formed in 2002 and based in Athens, the members of the chorus work together to develop their music skills and perform throughout northeast Georgia. Families can also participate in crafting holiday-themed works of art in the Michael and Mary Erlanger Studio Classroom. In addition to the activities, families can snack on light refreshments and treats provided.
Family Day: Home for the Holidays will take place at the museum on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This event is sponsored by Heyward Allen Motor Co., Inc., Heyward Allen Toyota and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art.
By Anika Chaturvedi
