Look at art in the UMFA collection with lots of movement and then explore our own way of moving and dancing while making art.   

Printmaking is one of the oldest ways to make art. Look at different kinds of prints in the UMFA collection and then, using household supplies, make some relief stamps to create a print of your own. 

Our annual mask-making activity is a perennial favorite! Decorate your own mask made from household recycled supplies. We will find inspiration in the UMFA’s amazing mask collection.  

Leard unique ideas from photography in the exhibition Space Maker to help turn your photographs into art.

Japanese art is back on display in our galleries! One of the showpieces is an intricate moveable raptor sculpture. Learn how this sculpture was made, then create your own articulated bird puppet using materials found at home. 

Construct a rolling paper cinema using household items using an age-old technique of movie magic.

People all over the world love playing games—and artists love painting, sculpting, and drawing games. Get inspiration from several works of art in the UMFA's collection that show games and people playing games, then make your own.

The intriguing symbols and intricate designs on the UMFA's beautiful collection of Japanese woodblock prints will inspire you to decorate a kite that will be perfect for flying throughout the spring.

Make a sketchbook and record your experiences with water in nature around you. 

Many of the artworks in Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem tell a personal story of Americans of African descent. Artwork can tell a story through images and patterns. Get inspiration either online or in the Museum from artworks that use pattern and pictures. Then, at home, create your own artwork using magazines, newspapers, cereal boxes and other art supplies to create a collage. 

Look at portraits from Black Refractions and consider the ways in which the artists approached and painted their subjects out of love, and with love, and then use this as inspiration for our own art-making.

Enjoy looking at landscape art online or in the Museum to learn about the artists’ secrets of composition. Explore the ideas and techniques of perspective, foreground, middle ground, and background. Then, create your own 3D landscape with paper, pencils, and scissors.

Get inspiration from our collection of ornate rings from around the world and depictions of elaborate rings from European paintings. Then, follow along to make your own fancy paper rings!

November is Native American Heritage Month! Practice the art of rug weaving using yarn and a DIY cardboard loom with our set of guided instructions. 

Spiral Jetty is a large sculpture made of basalt rock, dirt, and salt. We will be making our own sculptures from salt dough we can make ourselves.

European artists have painted a variety of plants and flowers that reflect the floral obsessions that come and go. Today we will see depictions of these fads from the past, including British “fern fever” and Dutch “tulipmania,” in art at the UMFA. You can make our own paper book to record rubbings of plants and flowers you want to learn more about. 

Study the intricate patterns and textures that adorn many art works and functional objects in the UMFA’s Arts of the Pacific collection then make a decorated container of your own.

Learn how to write in Mayan glyphs and make you're own chocolate drink inspired by Mayan recipes. 

Make your own trading cards inspired by illustrations in the ACME Lab exhibition Utah Women Working for Better Days! 

Make a landscape collage inspired by Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Alma Thomas on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Take an imaginary trip to Spiral Jetty and then make your own field guide. 

Learn about Japanese screens seen in Beyond the Divide: Merchant, Artist, Samurai in Edo Japan and then make your own mini version.