Make Art Family Day: RugLife

 MakeArt Family Day Featured activations include:
CIY (Color-it-Yourself) Rugs
Coloring pages help develop fine motor skills, build focus, and foster creativity. Reap the benefits of this classic art activity as you transform rug outlines into personalized masterpieces. Choose from various designs, including one inspired by Oksana Levchenya’s Pac-Man and Cossacks featured in the exhibition.

Tempting Tactile Textiles
There is more than meets the eye in the materials and creative processes of RugLife. Throughout the course of the exhibition, MCD has created, commissioned, and collected rug samples that create tactile touchpoints. Explore these haptic artifacts and let your hands explore what your eyes cannot. Exhibition-featured artwork cannot be touched. Help protect the art by maintaining a 2-feet minimum distance between you and the pieces on display.

Flower Power
Inspired by the natural textile dyes of many RugLife artifacts, Flower Power invites you to create one-of-a-kind floral designs using only fresh blossoms and a mallet. Join us in the (hopefully) sunny museum parklet and walk away with picturesque artwork powered by nature’s pigments.

Wondrous Weaving
Archaeological evidence suggests that weaving was universally known to all major human civilizations. Weaving remains a major method for textile production, both as an art form and in the commercial industry. Try your hand at this traditional, time-honored technique and take home a loom of your own!

Tesselating Textures | Block Printing
Block printing, historically used to decorate textiles for clothing, is a process steeped in tradition and generational craft knowledge. Choose a stamp and transform your canvas through satisfyingly repetitive prints.

California Collage
RugLife artists Liselot Cobelens and Noelle Mason use different mapping techniques to depict the California landscape. Details about the topography are achieved by combining different colors and textures of yarn. Which version of California feels more familiar to you? Combine maps and other images to create your own version of the landscape through the art of collage.