Each ticket is valid for one child and up to two adults; Program consists of a thirty minute exhibition experience followed by a ninety minute art-making activity. Materials included.
Appropriate for ages 8-14.
In this miniseries, children will first become apprentice cartographers, then watercolorists as they discover the historic techniques of mapmaking and then watercolor technique based on works in the exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth.
Part One “Ink Into Existence”
J.R.R. Tolkien once said “I wisely started with a map and made the story fit.” Maps have always played an essential role in our understanding of both the known and unknown world. Take a page from Tolkien and, with artist Simon Levenson, map out your very own fantasy realm using ink and paper.
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J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), Fantasy landscape, 1915?, watercolor, black ink. Tolkien Trust, MS. Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 26. © The Tolkien Estate Limited 1937.