Owens Art Kit

Mini-making activities inspired by our exhibitions

Plan Your Visit
Two canvas drawstring bags sit in a clear plastic display shelf on a wooden desk. Printed on the bags is an illustration of a hand holding a pencil encircled by a black band with text that reads "OWENS ART KIT".

Borrow an Art Kit from the front 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

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.

Created for the Salon Hanging exhibition, our current Art Kit has everything you need to create a ‘Salon Sketchbook’.

Unfold your accordion sketchbook and find an arrangement of beautiful frames just waiting for you to draw in them.

You can draw anything you like in the frames of your sketchbook. You might even find inspiration in the artworks you see around you. Look closely, you never know what you might see!

Past Art Kits

A hand holds up a frame filled with felt pieces and a bag with a circular "Owens Art Kit" logo. Behind the kit, a colourful embroidery is filled with flowers, figures and other creatures.
A hand holds a sketchbook in front of a densely embroidered artwork. The transparent pages allow the drawings of imaginative of monsters to overlap.
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.
In a gallery, a hand holds a small gold frame upright on a table. Colourful pieces of felt including circle, leaf, petal, and branch shapes have been used to make a floral image within the frame. A row of floral paintings hang on the wall in the background.
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.