Want to make art inspired by your favorite Phoenix Art Museum works on view? Create Playdate offers young artists a hands-on maker experience during their visit through our mobile, in-gallery art cart. Each week’s Create Playdate offers a fresh and fun theme featuring an artwork on view, an art making activity to do at the Museum, and kids’ projects to extend the fun at home!
Drop in any Saturday between 11 am – 3 pm.
MAY 2026
Portraits often show us what a person looks like, but they can also capture an idea of a person and what’s important to them. Portraits can tell us how a person wants to be seen and capture a mood or moment in time they are experiencing. Using colored pencils and a template of a gallery wall with mini frames, visitors will draw their own mini self-portraits, or a mini portrait of a family member or friend, highlighting the characteristics that make them unique. Visitors will then decorate the mini gallery wall, inspired by the elaborate frames in the gallery.
- SATURDAY, MAY 2 | 11 AM – 3 PM
- SATURDAY, MAY 9 | 11 AM – 3PM
- SATURDAY, MAY 16 | 11 AM – 3 PM
- SATURDAY, MAY 23 | 11 AM – 3 PM
- SATURDAY, MAY 30 | 11 AM – 3 PM
JUNE 2026
Leonardo Drew is an American artist who uses natural materials such as wood, cotton, and metal to create a large-scale textured sculpture. His work primarily focuses on ideas surrounding the passing of time including cycles of life and death and the nature of decay. The sculptures often contain elements of repetition with materials and form. Explore similar themes using natural materials to create a texture board inspired by Drew’s monumental sculpture.
