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Make Day! Stencil Landscape

Inspired by the rugged mountains and towering trees in the Group of Seven paintings, we’ll explore the use of stencils to mix and match our own landscape painting! Playing with underpainting and composition, use shapes to create unique and beautiful painted landscapes on canvas. Join artist Meggie Richards...

Make Day! Wet Paper Painting

Try a new technique used by the artist David Milne- playing with ink on wet paper! Visitors will have a chance to discover this wet-on-wet watercolour process and create a work of art to take home with them. Process-based activity, play and explore and discover new and unexpected ways...

Make Day! Neon Studio

Take in the colourful and whimsical characters in the exhibition Mitchell Wiebe: VampSites, then come make your mark in the studio. Led by artist Sherry Lynn Jollymore, we’ll be playing with neon lights, glow in the dark paint markers, and creating neon art together! Work independently, or with...

Make Day! Medicine is All Around Us

The history of a culture can be found within the language. Learn the Mi’kmaw names for some of the plant medicines or edible plants you walk by daily in Kjipuktuk (the Mi’kmaw name for Halifax)!  Explore a family-friendly block-printmaking experience about plants and bind your own mini journal...

Make Day! Games and Play

Join us for art, games, and playing in the studio! Get inspired by the exhibition on view, Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins: Three Dimensions, then join us in the studio and to build colourful painted sculptures with blocks and shapes. Play with your stackable, movable sculpture or make...

Make Day! Make and Share

We’re thinking small in size, big in quantity! We'll create custom magnets, personalized buttons, and unique vinyl stickers, using a variety of drawing and collage materials. Make some for yourself and for your friends! Get creative and explore making and multiples with us.  Work independently, or with your...

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