Phillips-at-Home Summer Series #1: Community

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Experiment Station

With students are out of school, some families may have more time to slow down, reconnect, and enjoy their long summer days. We hope to see you around the Phillips this summer (check out upcoming events), but you can always bring The Phillips Collection into your home through, creative art-making activities for artists of all ages! Tune in each week for the Phillips-at-Home Summer Series to learn more about artists in our collection and discover new ways to make their artworks come to life.

How to: Make a Musical Maraca at Home

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Experiment Station

On June 6th and 7th, almost 6,000 visitors attended Jazz n’ Families Fun Days, the Phillips’s annual family festival in partnership with DC Jazz Festival. Families decorated maracas, listened to live jazz music, played instruments, and joined gallery tours. In preparation for this big event, Phillips Education staff spent the last couple months collecting thousands of water bottles and toilet-paper rolls for the Family Fun art project – musical maracas! Check out these before and after photographs showing the innovative and creative ways visitors transformed recyclable materials into instruments that were as artistic as they were musical.