Sunday Crafternoon: Celebrating Black History Month • Art Inspired by the Works of Mary T. Smith! • Ages 5+
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Mary T. Smith (1905-1995) was an American Southern painter whose art career began in the 1970s with paint, creativity, and the found materials from the garbage dump near her home that she used as art surfaces, including corrugated roof tin, plywood, and other recycled scraps. According to art historian Phillip March Jones, Smith "constructed a outbuildings, doghouses, storage huts, tables, benches, and a studio where she worked and displayed her paintings. The buildings themselves were works of art, wood and tin sculptures usually painted with patterns and designs." Learn more about the artist here.
This Sunday, we'll be drawing inspiration from Smith's art methods and art style, using Tempera paint on all kinds of unconventional materials—wood, metal, foam, and more—to make reuse art pieces we're proud of!
Happy Black History Month!
2-4pm | Ages 5+. Youth must be accompanied by an adult | Masks strongly encouraged
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