Play Day: Illuminate
Family Play Days
- Special Event
Ames Family Atrium
About The Event
Join us this December as we play with light and shadow. Play Days at the CMA are opportunities for the whole family to be creative, be curious, and connect through art.
This winter’s program focuses on the different ways artists explore illumination in their work, including using color to represent radiance and happiness, showing contrast in painting using lights and darks, and exploring how light can change as it shines through different lenses and colors. The afternoon includes art-making activities, music, games, and more.
The event features the following activities:
- Lantern making as a part of the Winter Lights Lantern Festival and Holiday CircleFest
- An X-ray game with the CMA’s conservation team
- A writing activity with Literary Cleveland
- Shadow-puppet creation
- A shadow play station with handmade puppets
- A holiday ornament take-home kit
- An illumination-inspired self-guided tour
- Games and more!
All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Principal support is provided by Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, David and Robin Gunning, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by an anonymous donor, Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Robin Heiser, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, Sarah Nash, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, the Pickering Foundation, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.