Roll up your sleeves and get ready for hands-on art adventures this winter! Designed for children ages 5-10 (parents strongly encouraged to stay with younger children), the Benton’s Saturday Afternoon Studio sessions feature guided tours of current exhibitions and hands-on art making fun. Register early to secure your preferred dates; please contact Curator of Education, Matthew Marshall: matthew.marshall@uconn.edu.

$10 per student - Advance Registration Required

Saturday, February 15, 1:30-3pm 

PAWSitively Fun Polar Bears

An interactive children’s program starting with a story and ending with a fun painting activity.

A child friendly program drawing inspiration from an art-science animation on the changing Arctic by Anna Lindemann, on view in the 2025 Digital Media & Design Faculty Exhibition. The program will begin with a story featuring a polar bear as the central character. After the story, we will create our own polar bear painting using a fork instead of a paintbrush!