Childrens Program The Revery Garden with Ashley Norwood Cooper at Fenimore Art Museum on Select Saturdays Beginning April 1

Children’s Programs:

"The Revery Garden" - Crafting, Stories, and Poetry with Ashley Norwood Cooper

Saturdays: April 1, 15, and 29 from 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. 

Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY

The program is included with museum admission. Ages 19 and under are admitted free.

Cooperstown, New York — Fenimore Art Museum invites the public to three special children’s programs with artist Ashley Norwood Cooper. "The Revery Garden" is a series of three, one-hour courses featuring crafting, stories, and poetry. Children will work with artist Ashley Norwood Cooper to make an art installation called the “Revery Garden.” The programs take place on  Saturdays: April 1, 15, and 29 from 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. with new activities offered each day.

The program is included with museum admission. Ages 19 and under are admitted free. For more information, please visit FenimoreArt.org. 

Program Details:

Saturday, April 1 • 11:00am-12:00pm

Ms. Cooper will discuss Emily Dickinson’s poem “To Make a Prairie” and the meaning of “revery,” exploring part of the art exhibit (made from “revery”).

Day One Activities: Make paper seeds, flowers, and trees to construct a garden, complete with butterfly eggs. Book: Emily by Barbara Cooney.

Saturday, April 15 • 11:00am-12:00pm

Day Two Activities: Craft bees, caterpillars, and cocoons to add to the children’s “Revery Garden” art installation. Book: Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood by Tony Hillery.

Saturday, April 29 • 11:00am-12:00pm

Day Three Activities: Make butterflies, snakes, rabbits, and birds to add to the children’s “Revery Garden” art installation. Book: The Curious Garden by Peter Brown.

Ashley Norwood Cooper’s intensely colored, painterly, figurative work explores the creative lives of women, the awkwardness of family relationships, and the unpredictability of the natural world. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in the U.S. and Europe including First Street Gallery (NYC), ZINC Contemporary (Seattle) and Galerie Thomas Fuchs (Stuttgart, Germany). Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and on the I Like Your Work Podcast. Her debut at VOLTA NYC 2020 garnered write ups in the New York Times and Arcade Projects Zine (Columbia University). Ms. Cooper’s paintings are included in public and private collections in the United States and Europe including the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (San Francisco) and Greenville County Museum of Art (South Carolina).