The Marion Arts Festival and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art have teamed to create a new program of the Marion Arts Festival that will serve to benefit an area family service agency.
“My Kid Could Do That” will be launched with a CRMA-hosted “Family Fun Day” to be held Saturday, May 3rd from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Families are invited to work alongside professional artists and learn hands-on a spectrum of printmaking processes. Participants will have the opportunity to create an original Mother’s Day or Father’s day card, and will be asked to also use printmaking techniques to produce family-made postcards that will then be packaged and sold at the 16th Annual Marion Arts Festival as a fundraiser for Horizons, a Family Service Alliance.
The May 3rd CRMA Family Fun Day activities will be aimed at varying skill levels and all ages, and include exploring the Museum’s galleries, storytellers sharing tales of adventures, and demonstrations by area printmaking artists. Demonstrating artists include Nancy Lindsay, Priscilla Steele, Michelle Fischer, Phil Dorothy, Bryan Davis, Jim Ochs and Doug Hall.
CRMA gallery admission is free all day. No registration is required.
The family-made postcard-sized original prints produced through Family Fun Day will be packaged in groups of five and sold for $5 per packet at the May 17th Marion Arts Festival. Proceeds of the sale will benefit Horizons, a Family Service Alliance.
“My Kid Could Do That” is being introduced as a replacement for the festival’s “Empty Bowls Project,” an eleven-year effort through which more than $56,000 was raised to benefit area food banks.
For more information contact Deb Bailey with the Marion Arts Festival at 319.377.6316 or mafdirector@marioncc.org, or Andrea Jilovec with the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art at 319.366.7503, ext. 203 or ajilovec@crma.org.
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The mission of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is to excite, engage and educate our community and visitors through our collection, exhibitions and programs. The Museum’s collection contains more than 5,600 works of art by hundreds of artists, including the world's largest collection of works by Grant Wood. For more information on exhibitions or related programs call the Museum at 319.366.7503 or visit the Museum's web site at www.crma.org. The CRMA is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with extended hours and free general admission from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday. The CRMA is also open noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, but closed Monday and major holidays.