Customs House Museum & Cultural Center

May 28, drop by between 10 am – 12 pm & 2 – 4 pm | Ages 3+, with adult Free with membership or paid admission Artists may use more than brushes to paint – sometimes they use other objects such as string, sponges and even forks! Let’s use forks to paint bears and other...

April 30, drop by between 10 am – 12 pm & 2 – 4 pm | Ages 3+, with adult Free with membership or paid admission | Family Art Studio  Artists use many materials such as stone, iron and wood to create sculptures. Make your own animal sculpture like those found in Breaking Through: The...

*This program has been canceled* April 23, drop by between 1:30 – 3:30 pm | Kindergarten and above, with adult   Free with membership or paid admission | Family Art Studio  April showers bring rainbows! This hands-on program explores and experiments with colors of the rainbow. Try mixing different colors to create all seven colors of...

The artwork of Hope McKee and Thomais V. Moshopoulos, aka Rainbow Mosho, will be on exhibit in the Family Art Studio in April. Hope and Rainbow are members of Borderless Arts Tennessee, a statewide organization committed to inclusive and accessible arts programs for people with disabilities. Their works are inspired by the Antikythera Mechanism, an...

Mar 26, drop by between 10 am – 12 pm & 2 – 4 pm | All ages, with adult Free with membership or paid admission | Family Art Studio  Smooth or rough – let’s examine the surfaces of some unusual objects like fruits and veggies. Draw pictures with Ms. Sue on different textured papers...

*This program has been canceled.* Mar 12, drop by between 1:30 – 3:30 pm | Kindergarten and above, with adult   Free with membership or paid admission | Family Art Studio  Happy Birthday, Theodor Geisel! Participate in fun, interactive science experiments that relate to themes in books written by Dr. Seuss. Inspired by Horton Hears a...

Feb 26, drop by between 10 am – 12 pm & 1:30 – 3:30 pm | Ages 3 & above, with adult Free with membership or paid admission | Family Art Studio  Encourage the proper way of brushing your teeth with this fun painting activity. Paint a large picture of a tooth with a toothbrush,...

Feb 12, drop by between 1:30 – 3:30 pm | Kindergarten and above, with adult   Free with membership or paid admission | Family Art Studio  Conduct fun experiments with Ms. Pat this month. Find out how animals like polar bears and penguins stay warm in freezing temperatures, investigate how salt affects ice and play with...

*This event has been canceled.* Jan. 29, drop by between 10 am – 12 pm & 2 – 4 pm | Ages 3 & above, with adult Free with membership or paid admission | Family Art Studio Some people paint pictures; others paint walls. Meet the painters who worked on the walls of the newly-renovated...