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.
APRIL 2026
Radical Clay is a contemporary ceramics exhibition which celebrates 36 female artists from Japan. The ceramic sculptures showcased in this exhibition explore form and textures outside the norm of “feminine” subject matter. Visitors will replicate these forms by creating their very own paper sculpture using various paper folding and twisting techniques, texture plates, colored pencils and tape.
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.
Create Playdate is made possible by The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs.
