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Activities for Children

  • Children's Art Appreciation Class, April 2008
    Kid’s Monthly Self-Guided Activity

    The Spencer offers a self-guided activity designed for children and families to use in the galleries. Each month a different theme, topic, or special exhibition is featured and children receive art materials and a take-home activity.

  • detail: Preparatory Studies for Topeka Statehouse Murals - Tragic Prelude I: John Brown by John Steuart Curry
    Art of Kansas and the Region Fourth Grade Museum Tour

    Learn what creates the mood or feeling in an artwork. Learn how artists work with the elements of art to create: repetition, contrast, emphasis, balance, movement. Learn what kinds of works artists from Kansas and this region created.

  • detail: Landscape with Four Trees by Birger Sandzén
    "How Does It Feel?" Gallery Activity

    Learn about different kinds of texture in art. You will look at visual texture and real texture to learn about how texture may affect how we feel about a work of art.

  • Langston Hughes at the Spencer Museum of Art with Tim Rollins
    Langston Hughes at the Spencer Museum of Art with Tim Rollins

    Tim Rollins was artist-in-residence at the Spencer Museum of Art, Feb. 4-10, 2002. Rollins worked with 24 Lawrence middle-school students to study the writings of Langston Hughes and produce a collaborative work of art based on Hughes's poetry.

  • Tourin' with the Jayhawk
    Tourin' with the Jayhawk

    Take a tour of the Spencer Museum of Art with the Kansas Jayhawk.