Name: What Degas Saw
Start: 2016-04-28T11:00
End: 2016-04-28T12:30
Location: Education Center

Recommended for kids ages seven and up

Thu, Apr 28, 2016, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Education Center

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

Illustration from What Degas Saw, published by The Museum of Modern Art. Illustration © 2016 Cristina Pieropan

Join Samantha Friedman, assistant curator in MoMA's Department of Drawings and Prints, as she reads from her new children's book What Degas Saw. Listen to the story of artist Edgar Degas as he tried to capture the changing world around him.

Following the reading, watch New York City Ballet dancer Dana Jacobson and try to capture her movements in a drawing workshop.

Tickets: Sign-up begins at 10:30 a.m. in the Cullman Lobby. First-come, first-served tickets to this program are included in the price of general admission. During Spring Break, admission tickets to the Museum will be sold at this location:

The Cullman Education and Research Building, located at 4 West 54 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues (closer to Fifth)

Contact: (212) 708-9805 or [email protected]

Experiment with materials and techniques, listen to stories, and get moving to music during a week of special Spring Break Family Programs. Kids and adults participate!

This event accompanies Art Lab: Process.
This event is part of Spring Break Programs.

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