Free Family Day: Draw-A-Thon
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Sunday, Feb 1, 2026 11am - 5pm
Location
Akron Art Museum
1 S High St
Details
Join us in a family centered celebration of our exhibition entitled Alfred McMoore: All This Luck in My Head.
Families will enjoy the artworks on view alongside various art-making activities & experiences all about McMoore’s artistic style. The event includes:
-Gabrielle Fitzpatrick "The Illuminated Harpist" will be playing in the funeral parlor portion of the Alfred McMoore galleries.
-There will be drawing stations throughout the gallery
-Ballet Excel Ohio will be performing their new ballet entitled "Happy" at 12pm in the auditorium.
-The lobby will have long scrolls of paper all over the floor, walls, and beams for families to draw on with whacky with extra long drawing tools (amongst regular drawing tools)
-There will be an Alfred McMoore inspired photobooth - lots of suits to try on and pose with!
-Plus one or two drawing make & takes for families to commemorate the day
Wear your best suit and get ready to draw on large scrolls of paper & celebrate the last week of this nostalgic exhibition being on view!
Registration requested. FREE.
Alfred McMoore. Untitled [Funeral Scene], mid 1990s. Graphite on roll paper. 60 x 540 in. (152.4 x 1371.6 cm). Collection of the Akron Art Museum. Gift of Charles Auerbach, 1995.5
