Learn to bake Mimi’s favorite family recipes. Key Lime Pie, Summer Berry Crisp, Grandmom Herman’s chocolate chip mundlebroit cookies, cranberry orange scones and your own homemade fortune cookies - create a delicious new treat every day.

Create Claymation videos at home using your own cell phone or tablet—or animate your Legos, action figures, staplers and scissors—anything that looks like fun to you. Tell a story, bring a poem to life, explore something that interests you—or just make magic! Clay recipes, build-your-own phone/tablet stand instructions, and a free animation app provided.

Find your inner artist in your own home! In this hands-on online workshop, you’ll use whatever you can find around the house (including family members) to create your vision of a famous painting. Chopped carrots, vacuum cleaners, toilet paper, little brothers, the family cat — all are fair game when you’re the artist.

Learn how to make your own books at home! In this hands-on online workshop you’ll use supplies you find around the house like paper, glue, cardboard (How about those Amazon boxes you keep getting?), and needle and thread to make beautiful books. Suitable for all ages from seven through adult, and a great workshop to do as a family!

Turn your experiences into roads, your friends into landforms, and challenges into interesting bodies of water to navigate! This workshop is fun and easy to do with family, friends, or on your own, using collage, your creativity and materials you’ll find around the house. Great for ages 8 through adult.

If you’d rather scrub the bathtub than write a poem, discover how writing poetry can be like building your own treehouse. We’ll construct magnetic poetry online, take an inspiring poetry nap, write an epistle (letter) poem to send to someone you love—and more. Great for all ages!

As creative people you hold within you the ability to change the world — from improving one person’s life to solving global problems. Your mission? Create, draw, diagram, label, write and share an invention a day—realistic or imaginary—to solve each problem and make the world a better place.

Hands-on professional development to help you reach your community and rediscover the joy in your work. Collaborate in activities and brainstorm across the arts and sciences to create online and take-away experiences that will ease the social and emotional stresses we’re all experiencing.

In science, we're always trying to understand things that are too small or too big to comprehend, from tiny cells to our entire universe. How do we explain these things? By comparing them to things we understand. Learn how to transform science into poetry, and discover a technique to make science concepts stick for a lifetime.

A Kennedy Center Workshop

Excited about Claymation? Create new Claymation videos at home using your own cell phone or tablet—or animate your Legos, action figures, books, Kindle, rocks, staplers and scissors—anything that looks like fun to you. Tell a story, bring a poem to life, explore something that interests you—or just make magic! Clay recipes, build-your-own phone/tablet stand instructions, and a free animation app provided. See videos from the first two Claymation at Home workshop groups!

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Here’s your chance to become best friends with a piece of art. Listen to its secrets, draw or paint it and even write poems about it. Great for all ages and easy to do at home.

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How do animals adapt to be able to live in different environments? What adaptations help them survive? This week you’ll create magical adaptations for your favorite animal through drawing, collage and creative writing.

Learn the ancient art of paper marbling. Originating in 12th century Japan, Suminagashi, or “ink floating,” eventually found its way through Turkey, Persia, England, France, Germany, Holland - and to 17th century Italy, where artists used these beautiful papers for bookbinding. In this workshop, we’ll make our own marbled papers, and use them, along with classic bookbinding skills, to make beautiful Italian Secret Boxes, like the one pictured, created by the artisan-owner of Il Pavone, a tiny shop in the streets of Venice.

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In this workshop, we’ll yank out the curriculum standards you hate to teach, and develop ways to use the arts to help your students understand these concepts for the rest of their lives.

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A “Make a Difference from Home” Workshop

Gather together on Zoom for an old-fashioned sewing bee with a new twist! This week you’ll make fabric masks to protect yourself, your family and friends - or donate extra masks to homeless shelters, nursing homes, immigrant organizations and other groups.

Part sewing circle, part social event, in this “Make a Difference from Home” workshop, you can catch up as you sew with your family and friends in your own Zoom breakout room. No sewing machine required (though you’re welcome to use one). For novice and experienced mask-makers, ages 7 through adult.

Use acting, writing and detective work to bring history to life in this interactive workshop. With empathy and creativity, you’ll investigate the life of someone you admire from history and learn writing and drama techniques to share your discoveries with others.

This workshop is suitable for all ages from seven through adult.

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Become a screen star in a week of theatre. We’ll play theatre games especially designed for the online experience, experiment with improv and create original characters. We’ll finish the week with you starring in a scene or monologue and hold a grand premiere, complete with popcorn.

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In this easy online bookmaking workshop you’ll use supplies you find around the house like paper, glue, cardboard (How about those Amazon boxes you keep getting?), and needle and thread to make beautiful books. Suitable for all ages from eight through adult, and a great workshop to do as a family!

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We’ll spend this week focusing on the codex, the classic hardcover book. This is the perfect opportunity to use your favorite decorative papers as covers, endpapers and even pages in your books. Create one magnificent book or experiment with several different styles!

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As you figure out how to bring your brilliance from the classroom to the computer, this introductory workshop will help you create an online class and design effective, engaging and meaningful teaching approaches for students of all ages.

Here’s what participants are saying:

“How to Teach Online” was a safe, supportive, experiential intro to tech tools needed to teach and share digitally as a teaching artist, educator and musician. I loved the sense of community! Having access to the class content — and clear steps on how to use it — was priceless. Brilliantly organized and presented — this has been the perfect jumpstart into a new mindset and possibilities.

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In these one-on-one customized consultation sessions, we’ll look closely at what you do and how you do it, and develop ways to bring your magic to audiences via Zoom, website design and other online resources.

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An Asynchronous “At Home” Workshop.
Available any week - Choose a week that works for you!

In “A Guided Tour to Writing Letters,” the first asynchronous “At Home” Workshop, you’ll explore a variety of different types of letters you can write. From personal to world-changing, you’ll receive secret instructions each day for a new letter to write and mail. Get out that pen and paper to express yourself and connect with people you know well - and some you haven’t even met yet!

Open to anyone from seven through adult.

Always wanted to write the story of your life? Now’s the time. This memoir class will provide you with the techniques to share your life with those you love—or a larger audience.

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Explore the craft of poetry in a safe and inspiring workshop to help your poems be what they want to be when they grow up.

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Delve into the craft of short stories and novels in this fiction writing workshop. We’ll explore characters, setting, plot and other elements of fiction as you strengthen your writing voice.

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Got Intelligence? Discover different ways to be smart with a Human Bar Graph, brain art and a Multiple Intelligences Treasure Hunt you can do at home.

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Whether you’re writing fiction, poetry, memoir or nonfiction, this weekly workshop will deepen and strengthen your writing in a safe and supportive environment. We’ll explore your goals for your writing and use all the elements of craft - from characterization to figurative language, from setting to sound - to help your writing be as effective on the page as it is in your imagination.

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Cool deliciousness for hot August days: chilled peach soup and caprese, gazpacho and a light French salad with a homemade vinaigrette dressing, fruit salad with yogurt sauce along with homemade parmesan cream crackers and Mimi’s dad’s famous garlicky hummus. Spend three tasty days learning creating the perfect foods to keep the summer heat at bay.