Date/time TBD.
NEW SERIES!
Each month, we will travel around the world to explore past and current artists, their works, and unique styles. Our special program will include hands-on art making in the style of the featured artist. Expect a lot of color, imagination, and surprises as we create our own masterpieces!
This month, come join us for a project called “In Full Bloom” where we will help create a magic garden out of clay - full of flowers in bloom and surrounded by bees and other pollinating creatures. We will pinch, coil and press the clay to make the flowers of our imagination, then decorate them with a variety of colorful found and mixed materials. We will arrange our sculptures together to create a collaborative enchanted garden, in full bloom.
All ages welcome, included with Museum admission.
About Artist:
LEIGH TAYLOR MICKELSON
A resident of Ossining, NY, Leigh Taylor Mickelson is an artist and independent consultant with 22 years of experience in nonprofit arts management and program development. From 2012-19 she served as Executive Director at Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY and was formerly on staff as the Program Director. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and English Literature from Hamilton College, and received her MFA in Ceramic Sculpture from Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts. Mickelson has had several articles published in various publications and catalogs, has taught ceramics and workshops across the East coast and exhibits her own work widely across the nation.
Her ceramic sculpture is inspired by forms from nature, especially ones found in plant life, as a means of expressing narratives about life. Being full of dichotomy, the elements of natural forms act as a metaphor for the spiritual, emotional and physical extremes that exist within ourselves, our love relationships and our family units.
The Westchester Children's Museum's Exploring Art Through the Artists program, is made possible by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government.