Owens Art Kit

Mini-making activities inspired by our exhibitions

Borrow an Art Kit from the information desk and exercise your creativity in the galleries with mini-making activities inspired by our exhibitions. Each Art Kit is packed with everything you’ll need for a small art adventure.

Designed for kids ages 2-12.

Art Kits are available during any visit to the Owens.

Current Art Kit

Two people each hold up an illustrated paper cutouts in a room filled with framed artwork hanging on a red wall. The left cutout resembles an open suitcase, filled with drawings of a hoodie, chocolate bars, graham crackers, a roasting stick, a knit hat, matches, bug spray, and a flashlight. The right cutout looks like a closed suitcase with a drawing of a house on a stamp.

A hand holds up two illustrated paper cutouts beside a large landscape painting. The left cutout resembles a suitcase with buckle strap. The right cutout resembles an open suitcase, filled with labeled drawings of a flashlight, bicycle, camera, journal and pencil, warm drink, a remote controlled car, phone with headphones, and a friend.

Have Suitcase, Will Travel

If you could pick any painting at the Owens as your travel destination, what would you choose? Would it be a faraway beach? A city? The mountains? A farm? Would you go somewhere cold and snowy or possibly somewhere magical like garden with a dragon and a tree of golden apples? All these places can be found in the galleries at the Owens today.

This Art Kit will help you explore the exhibitions and has a miniature suitcase for you to draw (or write) all the things you would need to pack for your journey.

Past Art Kits

A hand holds an accordion-style book with printed picture frames and four coloured pencils. In the background, out of focus, colourful artworks of fruit hang on a gallery wall.

In a gallery, a hand holds up a felt square, which has been layered with two sizes of blue, yellow, orange, red, and orange felt squares. In the background several paintings of grids hang on the wall.

A hand holds a sketchbook in front of a densely embroidered artwork. The transparent pages allow the drawings of imaginative of monsters to overlap.

Inside a sketchbook, gold frames are empty, ready for drawings. A hand holds up the accordion book in a gallery with deep red walls filled with paintings in similar gold frames hung floor to ceiling.

A hand holds a small weaving made of yarn and ribbon of many different colours, textures and thicknesses. Below on a bench rests two canvas bags. In the background, large weavings of colourful grid hang on a white wall.

A hand holds up a brown masonite board with a small sketchbook and graph paper. A geometric frog is drawn on the cover by filling in squares of the graph paper. In the background, a brown and tan weaving of a city skyline hangs next to a sketch and xerox of the same image.

In the centre of a gallery is a large cage-like structure between two black sculptural rocking. On the floor in front of the installation is a small structure with black straws and white connectors, a drawstring bag and small card.

A hand holds a card with four open flaps that reveal drawings. In the background, on a low plinth is a small wooden chest with a hinged top is propped open to display various objects including an an open book. On the floor next to the chest is a small canvas bag and blue plastic pencil case that holds coloured pencils.

Owens Art Kit

Mini-making activities inspired by our exhibitions

Current Art Kit

Have Suitcase, Will Travel

Past Art Kits

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