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We invite regional creatives to watch for an announcement by the spring, and prepare to apply for this residency, which will start in the fall. While our unique Family-in-Residence experiment began in 2016, we are rolling out a formal search for a new artistic family in 2023. What was once a fun idea to liven up a space was formalized into a full-on program. Just like we are reimagining the space, the Museum is reimagining the in-residence format. He actually came up with the idea to do this with his family, and we were thrilled!”
The artist we approached to do the 2016 installation was someone who had a successful history of residencies. Saralyn Rosenfield, the Museum’s Director of Learning & Engagement, describes how an artist-in-residence ask became a family-in-residence reality: “Artists are really busy and what we often hear is that they want more time with their families.
#Playkids junior on the job install
Instead of just one person, we want a whole family to conceptualize, design, and install the entire Kids’ Corner space. Our Family-in-Residence concept is modeled after the widely known artist-in-residence model, wherein a museum recruits an artist to create work(s) and/or programming for a defined period of time. No, we aren’t asking a family to move in. The Museum is poised to reimagine the area, once again, and it’s looking for families to become our next Family-in-Residence. A larger than life-sized, furry sheepdog named “Twell Van Dunder” is part of the décor, and makes for an Instagrammable posing destination. The walls bear murals depicting sunsets and trees. Still in place in Kids’ Corner at the start of 2023, it has original music by the Smiths, a shimmering, magnetic-fishing “pond,” stool-sized mushrooms encircling a fabric campfire, and a plush bird’s nest seat. This second Smith imagining is called, “Who Hears Twell Van Dunder?” and is an immersive celebration of childhood and a place for older people to rediscover the wonder of play. More than just a paint job and new textiles, Kids’ Corner has been transformed into a colorful enchanted forest, with paths winding around giant trees containing tiny, magical displays. Most recently, in 2019, the New Jersey-based Smith family-Daniel, Elin, and children Lilly, Ida, and Lukas-was tapped for a second time to reshape Kids’ Corner into an immersive art-as-play experience. Lenny the Ice Cream Man was dreamed up by the Smith Family in 2017.Ĭreative Power was the work of the Silverman Family in 2018. Kaleidoscope Cove was designed by the Volta Family in 2016.
Three families-all including artists from Delaware, Pennsylvania, or New Jersey-have designed the last four installations since 2016: Each incarnation is designed to foster creative and imaginative play, hands-on exploration, and storytelling.Īnd we really love the way the latest changes to the Kids’ Corner have changed the Museum as a whole. HISTORY OF THE KIDS’ CORNERĬreated in 1987, and later named Kids’ Corner, this child-friendly space on the Museum’s lower level has been reimagined regularly in recent years. Known as Kids’ Corner, this junior oasis on the Museum’s lower level has fostered creative exploration for several generations of visitors, some of whom are old enough to return to the space with their own children. The solution? The Museum offers children their own enriching arts experience with a dedicated interactive space. The typical art museum experience for adults is pretty comfortable: paintings hung at eye level, captions that share insights into works of art, and staff or volunteers available to answer questions.īut a kid might easily find the adult museum experience to be too big, too still, and too two-dimensional.
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