Museum Studio Spaces V

I have been meaning to check out the Ryan Learning Center at the Art Institute of Chicago for awhile so when we went to the Andy Warhol exhibit on Sunday I stopped by. And it turned out it is all about to be “enhanced”. One room that I think had been for the youngest children was already closed and nothing was happening in some of the studios. The Family Room was still open but I think it was scheduled to be closed the next day.

Families were building with blocks and looking at books.

An invitation to create a shadow box inspired by the exhibit “Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930’s” was set up on the tables.

I don’t think there was a facilitator in the space (no one approached me – a grown up with no children taking pictures) but there were some families creating.

There were many completed shadow boxes hanging on the wall.

I liked these lines and clips as a way to save and display art and will be interested to see if they remain after the remodeling since it looked like there had been some which had been removed outside one of the studio classroom spaces. It will be exciting to return in a few months to see the new space.