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Mildred Thompson's abstract painting "String Theory VI." Bursting with joy and color, small rectangular brushstrokes in yellow and red cover the canvas, floating on top of a swirling background in blues and greens. Squiggles in red that call to mind cursive handwriting sit on top of all of it. It suggests fireworks, the cosmos and the string theory in physics that inspired the artist.

Nov 07

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Family Day: The Science of Art

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A loose, somewhat abstracted watercolor painting of a tree covered with red and orange leaves in autumn. Seen against a bright blue sky, it towers over a small house.

Nov 10

10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

Toddler Tuesday: Art in Nature

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A fairly abstracted lithograph by Maltby Sykes in black on cream paper. Titled “Moon Phases,” it shows a crescent moon at left, a full moon at right, taking up most of the image, and perhaps a new moon (a smaller black circle) at top left. Most of the image is covered in black, including the moon shapes.

Dec 01

10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

Toddler Tuesday: Morning to Moon

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A wood block of a horse-drawn carriage dashing through the snow, a la “Jingle Bells,” carved by Libby Bailey and inked in black for printing.

Dec 12

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Family Day: Merry and Bright

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Yvaral's sculpture "Instability Number 18" is a square shaped work made up of rows of thin cords. The cords are painted to create an optical illusion of a four-sided pyramid that comes into focus based on the viewer's position.

Jan 12

10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

Toddler Tuesday: Op Art

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A view of the Larry D. and Brenda A Thompson Collection within the Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II. A variety of works hang on the wall, and two sculptures are on a platform in the center of the room.

Jan 23

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Family Day: Behind the Scenes

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Helen Frankenthaler's "La Sardana," a lithograph with sugar-lift aquatint. A vertical sky-blue square holds two blobby, biomorphic shapes in uneven shades of green, one above and to the right of the other. Each shape is framed on its top and left by a right angle in purple.

Feb 06

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Family Day: Colorful Crossings

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Mary Cassatt's oil painting, a study for "The Sun Bath," shows a woman in a long sea foam dress laying outdoors on a white blanket with a naked toddler.

Feb 09

10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

Toddler Tuesday: Heart and Home

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Helen Frankenthaler's lithograph "Divertimento" consists of red-orange and fuscia pigment on a pale purple-pink paper.

Feb 18

5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Teen Studio: Beyond the Canvas

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A print by Helen Frankenthaler that combines etching, aquatint and drypoint. Tall and vertical, it features a paler orange ground and ink in a darker orange on top of it in various rough shapes and squiggles, including a circle and some horizontal lines.

Mar 09

10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

Toddler Tuesday: Art in Action

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Daniel Garber's oil painting "Spring Panel" shows a man standing next to a blooming tree on the bank of a river. Across the river, houses are scattered across the hillside.

Mar 20

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Family Day: Spring into Art

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A light sculpture by Lila Katzen that features an ultraviolet light tube installed vertically between two sheets of acrylic. When plugged in and turned on, the acrylic appears to light up too, in two bright vertical bands of light green.

Apr 17

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Family Day: Bright Ideas

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