Winter Break | Family Activity Friday, December 27, 2024 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Paul Gauguin, Femmes de Tahiti (Tahitian Women), 1891, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photo © TMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
December 26, 27, 30, 31, 2024/January 2–3, 2025
This Winter Break, join Museum educators and artists to explore works of art from the exhibition Gauguin in the World. Families can experiment with new materials and processes that French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin used to create his art. These art-making activities and knowledgeable educators help spark discovery and create family memories to last a lifetime.
Plan Your Visit
- This program is free with Museum admission and is open to families with children ages 5–12 years old.
- Meet in the Arrival Hall on the lower level of the Kinder Building.
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All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the John M. O'Quinn Foundation; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
“Gauguin in the World” is organized by Art Exhibitions Australia; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
This exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from:
Lead foundation underwriting is provided by:
Lead Corporate Underwriter:
Generous support is provided by:
Margaret Alkek Williams
Jerold B. Katz Foundation
M. D. Anderson Foundation
The Radoff Family
The Favrot Fund
Gail, Louis, Veronika, and Marc Adler
Polly and Murry Bowden
Nancy Pollok Guinee
Phoebe and Bobby Tudor
Andrius Kontrimas/Sheppard Mullin
Ann G. Trammell
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