This week I visited the Walker for Evening for Educators, an event inviting educators to experience Walker tours through an exhibition to gain insight on what that would look like for a class, as well as other educational resources related to some of the work currently on view at the Walker including an activity guide for the David Hockney exhibition, People, Places, & Things, and an information exhibition guide for teacher use. There were also two art-making activities set up for attendees, an iPad drawing station based on Hockney’s digital landscape pieces, and an accordion book station.
I also assisted with Free First Saturday this weekend, which fell on the same weekend as the Kid’s Film Fest. The activity I was helping with was a stop motion film activity with two stations. First, kids and their adults created paper puppets using either templates or cutting out their own shapes and attaching them with brads. After they finished creating the puppets, they brought them over to the iPad station, which I was running, to create a short stop motion animation. Kids were really excited about it, and some wanted to make multiple films. Because the film fest fell on the same weekend, it was very crowded and we likely would have benefitted from a few extra hands, as the activity takes quite a bit of time, and more people were lining up much faster than others were finishing their puppets or films. It was a bit overwhelming, but it helped that every family who visited was very patient and understood that we couldn’t make it go faster, and seemed to be a really enjoyable event for everyone who attended!