Family Day: Invisible–
About
Make art that’s out of sight at this Family Day, inspired by Kerry James Marshall: Mastry.
Program
Scheduled:
- 11 am–3 pm
Meet astronomer/artist Jose Francisco Salgado, learn about the science of stars and outer space, and map your own galaxy. - 11 am–1 pm
Find performances by Chicago Sinfonietta’s Project Inclusion Ensemble throughout the museum
- 1–3 pm
MCA artists in residence Eighth Blackbird team up with Chicago Academy for the Arts high school musicians to perform original compositions inspired by Kerry James Marshall: Mastry.
Throughout the day:
- Help make disappearing and reappearing artworks
- Hunt for hidden images
- See the unseen *Watch a selection of videos inspired by today's theme *Become a card-carrying member of the Library of Invisible Stories
- And more!
Featured image
Photo: Joshua Longbrake, © MCA Chicago
Funding
Support for family programs is provided in part through the MCA Women’s Board Family Education Initiative.
Related content
Exhibitions
- Kerry James Marshall: Mastry–
- Long This painted portrait depicts a young woman with jet-black skin holding a long, thin paintbrush up to a colorful, messy painter’s palette. She is shown in a three-quarter pose, gazing directly at the viewer. Her face, which is central to the square composition, stands out against a large, white, canvas, almost blending into the pitch-black background to her right. Closer inspection reveals, however, that her skin is subtly rendered, with various shades of contours and highlights. She wears two large hoop earrings, three small hoop earrings, and an oversized, boxy, high-collared jacket made of stiff fabric. Her voluminous hair—black with an ochre sheen—rises in thick coils on top of her head. The canvas to her left shows a partly finished paint-by-number self-portrait; in it, her likeness is broken up into smaller segments with pale-blue outlines and numbers. She has outlined many of the segments and filled them in with colors from her palette: orange, blue, yellow, pink, brown, and a few shades of green. The paint-by-number canvas does not accurately represent the color and pattern of the jacket she wears, which features mustard yellow sleeves and collar and deep blue and maroon and light yellow stripes.
