2010 SPRING Cool Culture® provides 50,000 underserved families with free, unlimited sponsored by JAQUELINE KENNEDY access to ONASSIS 90 cultural institutionsRESEVOIR - so that parents can provide their children withCENTRAL PARK 80 Hanson Place, Suite 604, Brooklyn, NY 11217 www.coolculture.org educational experiences that will help them succeed in school and life. CENTRAL PARK HARLEM MEER Malky, Simcha, Stanley and Avi Mayerfeld. Fi e tzpa t trick t . Vaness e a Griffi v th and Ys Y abe l Fitzpat FIFTH AVENUE d rick. n a o FIFTH AVENUE i g r e S , a n i t n e g r A Isabella, Sophia and Ethel Zaldaña 108TH ST 107TH ST 106TH ST 103RD ST 105TH ST 102ND ST 104TH ST 101ST ST 100TH ST 99TH ST 98TH ST 97TH ST 96TH ST 95TH ST 94TH ST 93RD ST 92ND ST 91ST ST 90TH ST 89TH ST 88TH ST 87TH ST 86TH ST 85TH ST 84TH ST 83RD ST 82ND ST 81ST ST Felicia and Omaria Williams F e l ic ia a nd he t C C O o o m o a h ri W o To ol— illiams atc l! Families C The Cool Culture community couldn't choose just one. “I really liked came together to Catch the Cool on making stuff and meeting my friend and June 8th at the Museum Mile getting a poster by (artist) Michael Albert,” she said. The siblings – along with Festival! Thousands painted, drew, their sister Ysabel (one), mom Yvette and aunt danced and partied on Fifth Avenue from Vanessa Griffith– participated in art activities 105th Street to 82nd Street, dropping in that included crafting monkey ears at The museums along the way. Jewish Museum, creating masterpieces with All evening, families popped in to the paper sidewalk paint at Cooper-Hewitt, National canoe workshop at The Metropolitan Design Museum, and constructing paper Museum of Art. Omari (five) proudly canoes at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. showed off his artwork, counting the stars The Cool Culture Hunt Cards with clues and feathers on a canoe that he made for Jeremy Perez, Evelyn Garcia, Emy Perez and Elaine Perez and activities made exploring museums his mom, Felicia Williams. even easier and more exciting! They can be downloaded at Sophia Zaldaña (three) and her sister Isabella (seven) excitedly http://www.coolculture.org/activities/culture-hunt and used to worked on their own canoes at the next table. “We do a lot of arts explore museums on the Mile. “They're really cool,” said Idele and crafts at home,” said their mom, Ethel. “They absolutely White, Family Worker at Seventh Avenue Center for Families Head adore it.” Start, of the free cards. “Learning is the point, definitely,” said Ana Roque, as she “We went into the Museum of the City of New York and there watched her daughter Jashleen Jaquez (five) stamp a postcard were all different types of cars in there,” Ms.White said. “It was with a park scene at El Museo del Barrio. “Jashleen learns so really nice.” much. She's a sponge!” “The kids wanted to see the Curious George exhibit at The “In the museum, there is a lot of culture that I didn't know Jewish Museum, and then we got caught up on the streets, with about, like the bed and the picture that has a human being and the drawing and the clowns and the balloons,” said Stanley a nest,” explained Emy Perez (seven) as she explored El Museo Mayerfeld, who was accompanied by his wife Malky and sons with her mom Evelyn Garcia, brother Jeremy (eleven) and sister Aryeh (twenty months), Simcha (four) and Avi (six). Elaine (five). “The kids loved it just as much as we enjoyed it,” said Ms. Mayerfeld. Families also soaked up the artistic atmosphere on the Who knows what Cool Culture adventures await you and your streets outside! family! Be one of the first 15 families to submit a photo of your “I love this... I think it's great,” said Nadia Reyes, whose family posed in front of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to six-year-old daughter Catherine was drawing with sidewalk chalk. [email protected] and WIN a copy of You Can't Take a Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum! Sergio Fitzpatrick (four) said his favorite part of the night was watching the street performers. His sister, Argentina (seven), by Erin Cassin Dial 1 # Photos of Cool Culture families Catching the Cool during the 2010 Museum Mile Festival with chalk on the streets of Fifth Avenue, music at El Museo del Barrio and art-making at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. COOL CULTURE FAMILY TIME / FALL 2010 THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART CHECK IT OUT! TheThe MetropolitanMetropolitan THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUMMUSEUM OFOF ARTART MUSEUM OF ART Imagine Dial 78 & 79 # Family programs take place in journeying the Uris Center for Education around the ART TREK world without SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 11AM–NOON & 2:30–3:30pm actually leaving Be an art explorer! Take a new voyage around the globe every New York City! time you visit the Met. o Co the Co AGES 5–12 FP o o ch ol HOW DID THEY DO THAT? T l— at ! EVERY SECOND SATURDAY & Fa s C SUNDAY, EVERY HALF HOUR milie FROM 1-4pm Peek at technique and learn— Cool Culture families did just that when they caught the cool, through handling tools and exploring The Metropolitan Museum of Art during the Museum Mile materials—how works of art were Festival on June 8th. Using the Cool Culture Hunt Card, they ventured created. ALL AGES FP through the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Galleries looking START WITH ART AT THE MET for a king's intricate ivory pendant mask from Benin. RECURRING, CHECK THE MET’S WEBSITE FOR DATES You, too, can time travel the world with a visit to The Metropolitan AND TIMES Museum of Art, which boasts more than two million works of art Kids have fun at the Met through collected from every corner of the earth! storytelling, sketching, and other ways of exploring art! AGES 3-7 FP “Our focus is to really show our audiences the STORYTIME IN NOLEN LIBRARY world,” says John Welch, the Met's Museum WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, Educator in Charge of Youth Programs. “In our 10:30–11am collections, we have over 5,000 years of history and Explore the world of art through art from every culture imaginable, so it's an engaging picture books selected opportunity for a family – both the children and the from the library’s collection! adults – to really learn more about the world and cultures AGES 4-7 FP from the past and also of the present.” To learn more about what you can see and do at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, visit A favorite spot for kids is the Modern Art Galleries, where you can see www.metmuseum.org. art focused on colors and shapes. Look for painter Ellsworth Kelly's beautiful rainbow, entitled Spectrum V, featuring brightly painted Catch the cool at the Met with panels that stretch across one wall. Or find artist Jean Tinguely's Cool Culture Hunt Cards! funky Narva sculpture, which is made out of tubes and wheels that Download and begin your move like a machine! adventure, visit www.coolculture.org. Time travel to places all over the world without stepping outside the Top: Facade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Center image: Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba, 16th century; Nigeria; Edo peoples, Court of Benin; ivory, iron, copper (?); The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1972 (1978.412.323). Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2 COOL CULTURE FAMILY TIME / FALL 2010 THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART museum. Go back to the Middle Ages with a walk through the Arms and Armor CONNECT Galleries, and see knights in armor. Maybe they’re waiting to ride into battle on their horses! When you find yourself in ancient Egypt be sure to honor the Cool Culture’s audio tour guide goddess Isis in the Temple of Dendur. Or even take a stroll through Astor allows you to connect to the Court, a recreation of a centuries-old Chinese garden courtyard from the Ming Cool Culture community. Dynasty. HEAR about cultural events With each trip to the Met, you're sure to discover something new! and family programs GET “We want Cool Culture families to continue to come to us and either enjoy the reviews of cultural museum on their own or through our regular programming,” says Mr. Welch. activities LEARN fun facts and history about NYC culture “Learning about art is so much more than just SHARE your family’s stories learning what art looks like,” says Mr. Welch. “Art with our community will help children in school, art will help them develop social skills and verbal skills, and art is so IT’S EASY AND FREE! much a part of the culture we live in now and all of the cultures that they'll learn about from the past here at the museum.” Dial 718-408-2393 1. Look for this symbol in the Family Time newsletter 2. Enter the item number, The kids programs are a great introduction to the followed by the # key collections, especially if you're nervous about exploring them on your own. 3. You can enter another item number anytime you want. See the Check It Out box on page two for a list of fun activities! Each recording is about 1 minute long “It's also being with a beloved family member and setting down memories,” says Museum Educator Michael Norris.“Families can approach it as a life-long relationship..