Art in the Barn storytime highlights award-winning Caldecott books and includes a hands-on art project for preschoolers at the Walt Whitman Birthplace.

Taught by Lena Massari Sawyer, former Museum Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Join in each week as they read various stories including the award-winning Caldecott books. Learn about artists of the past and create your own artwork.​​

• April 6 – Celebrate National Poetry Month at Walt Whitman Birthplace!
• Explore the work of British Textile designer, poet and artist William Morris. Read “Beautiful Useful Things: What William Morris Made” by Beth Kephart and end the session making your own print designs.
• April 13 – Spring has arrived! Celebrate National Garden Month at the Birthplace. Walk through Walt’s Garden and find some Whitman Lilacs blooming. Back in the Art Barn, explore the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The session ends with a stained glass inspired project and “In the Garden” by Carin Berger.
• April 20 – Explore the work of Architect Frank Loyd Wright. In the Art Barn, build with wood and read “My first Shapes with Frank Lloyd Wright” by Mudpuppy and L. Ortiz.
• April 27 – “The Wave” by Hokusai. Explore how the world of Japanese prints affected Nineteenth Century artists. Paint and read “Hokusai: He saw the world in a Wave” by S Hodge and K. Ekdahl.
• May 4 – The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. Get ready, get set, take a look at The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh and read Vincent’s “Colors” by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Bring your smock)
• May 11 – No Class
• May 18 – Cezanne’s Apples. Put on your smocks and grab a paint brush. We will be painting in The Art Barn and reading “Orange Pear Apple Bear” by Emily Gravett.
• May 25 - Travel to Monet’s Garden. Plant your own herbs in the Art Barn and reading Lena Anderson and Christina Björk’s book “Linneas’s Windowsill Garden”.
• June 1 – Summer has arrived. Go sailing with the artist Edward Hopper and look for Lighthouses. Paint and read “Edward Hopper Summer at the Seashore” by Deborah Lyons. (Makeup class for May 11)