American Explorer Family Day
Bring the whole family to the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery for an afternoon of art making and family fun during American Explorer Family Day on February 13th beginning at 1 pm. American Explorer Family Day activities will feature a demonstration of the brand-new Traveling Museum Exploration Art Trunk. Visitors will discover how artists assisted explorers such as Jedidiah Smith and John C. Frémont by documenting new findings, creating maps, painting the flora and fauna, and photographing landscapes. They can then get involved with an art activity for all ages making their own cartographical artwork exploring the world around them. Admission to the event is free.
The museum’s Family Days occur several times a year and feature a variety of family-friendly events. Each event has a theme tied to the museum’s Traveling Trunk Program, an outreach program funded by the Boeing Company. The Exploration Art Trunk featured during this February 13th Family Day event is the first of six new Art in Action trunks being debuted by the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery. For additional information, please contact the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery at 661-723-6250 or lmagreceptionist@cityoflancasterca.org.
About the Traveling Museum Art Trunk Program
The Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery Traveling Museum Trunk program explores how the museum’s collection is changing the way students understand and experience the world through art and historical artifacts. The free program serves public, private and home schools in the Antelope Valley region and has brought the museum’s collection directly to K-12th grade students. With major funding from the Boeing Company, the program was initially created to provide teachers with educational resources and tools based on the collections at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery that integrate with California’s curriculum standards. Unique to the Antelope Valley, the Traveling Museum Trunk program is distinguished as the area’s first mobile museum providing students with classroom presentations that can engage young minds through focused hands-on learning.
The program’s expansion this year is designed to enrich and promote art and history appreciation among students throughout the Antelope Valley. Organized into two one-hour classroom sessions, the Art in Action presentation will feature antiques, artwork and historical replicas from the museum’s permanent collection, an in-class discussion, a short take-home assignment, and an interactive hands-on art activity. The result is a community partnership that brings museum learning directly to the students during the school day at a time when schools may be unable to sponsor field trips to view works of art due to budget restrictions. The museum is continuing to develop five more Art in Action trunk topics in addition to the American Explorers Trunk.
About The Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery
Founded in 1986, the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery is dedicated to advancing an appreciation of art and history in the Antelope Valley. Operating two sites—the Museum/Art Gallery and the Western Hotel Museum—LMAG is not only a repository for historical artifacts important to the preservation of the unique character of the Antelope Valley, but also a place where audiences—residents and visitors alike—may experience exhibitions of fine art and participate in a variety of art and history-based programs. LMAG offers a schedule of exhibitions, as well as lectures, workshops, Family Day activities, film and musical events. The Traveling Museum Trunks, LMAG’s educational outreach program, explores how the museum’s collection is changing the way students understand and experience the world through art and historical artifacts through interactive presentations and hands-on activities. The program is sponsored by The Boeing Company.
General Information- The Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery is located in Lancaster, California at 44801 North Sierra Highway, one-half block southwest of Lancaster Boulevard and across the street (west) from the downtown Metrolink depot. For more information about LMAG and its programming, call (661) 723-6250 or log on to www.cityoflancasterca.org/Index.aspx?page=67.
Museum Hours and Admission- The Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 am to 4 pm; closed Mondays, holidays, and between exhibitions. Admission is free, except to specially ticketed events.
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