Palo Alto Art Center Foundation and SACHI present 

Children’s Activities on Spring Family Day

Explore the beauty of spring at the Palo Alto Art Center!

Join us for storytelling, hands-on artmaking projects, and a dance performance.

Activities are appropriate for ages 5 through adult. 

 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: 

* 1:30 pm Listen to a dramatic and humorous South Asian folktale with storytellers from Kitaab World followed by a traditional Pithora painting activity led by Pragati Sharma

PITHORA is a ritualistic painting tradition from Madhya Pradesh in Central India. Pithora art form comprises of dense colorful dots on a larger shape very similar to Australian Aboriginal art. Each participant will decorate cut out shapes (of leaves and birds) with paint and create a small piece of Pithora art to take home, and also participate in a big artwork that will come together as a large community art project (Tree of Life) at the PAAC.

*2-4 pm Wrap the trees with yarn with textile artist Eden Evans. Artmaking activities led by Art Center teaching artists: Rainbow Kaleidoscopes, Mandalas, and Secret Shadowboxes

*4-4:30 pm Dance Performance in the Sculpture Garden  

A FREE Public Event 

All Family Days are free, thanks to the support of the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation.