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Color Play

From May 24, 2025 to September 7, 2025

Location: KIDS ROCKWELL Art Lab

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Step into a world full of color and creativity! Explore art and spark your imagination through fun, hands-on projects and activities designed to support early arts education. Investigate how colors in all shades and tints transform the spaces that surround you, with interactives inspired by vibrant works on view at The Rockwell Museum.  

Color is more than just something to see — it shapes how you create, express, and connect. Play-based projects and activities help nurture curiosity and let you dive deeper into the colors and ideas in art. Learn about artists who tell stories, portray emotions, and illustrate different points of view through colorful, diverse media. Read the booklets at each station to uncover more about the art and artists.    

 Try the dazzling new Everbright interactive! This colorful light board invites you to twist and turn the dials, mix your own colors, and design your own patterns. Local artists Tori Riina and Shannah Warwick designed original patterns to ignite your inner creativity.  

 Come play with color and discover the magic of art! 

The Everbright

Spin the dials on this colorful light board to design your own pictures! Collaborate with friends and family to create a glowing image that constantly evolves with every twist and turn.

Cave of Creativity

Explore the Cave of Creativity!

Make a Kaleidoscope

Create your own magical kaleidoscope that reflects and refracts the colors around you! Take it on a tour of the Museum galleries to see the artwork in a whole new way.

Newton’s Color Wheel Spinner

Explore how light waves combine to create a spectrum of hues.

Nature Gradients

Discover how nature paints a rainbow of colors in peaceful sunsets, autumn leaves, and stormy oceans. Create your own nature-inspired gradient to take home.

Collaged Placemats

Make a special placemat to use in our pretend diner, then take it home to use at your next meal!

Light Table

Play with geometric shapes in a rainbow of colors to explore color-mixing and patternmaking.

Dining Out Delight

Nothing could be finer than making and serving a meal in our pretend diner, inspired by William Wegman’s collage Dining Out.

Mix Up the Scene

Mix, move, and overlap magnetic pieces to create your own cozy lounging space inspired by Tiffany Alfonseca’s mixed-media painting.

THANK YOU

 This exhibition is made possible with generous support from Toby Wollin and Darryl M. Wood and Melissa Gambol.