March 13 - Free Family Festival at the Woodruff Arts Center

Live in the Atlanta area and want something fun to do next weekend? The High Museum and Woodruff Art Center are hosting a FREE Family Festival from 12-5pm on Sunday, March 13. (Note: Parking is not free and costs $10 if you are not a museum member.)

The festival will be celebrating the works of two artists, Vik Muniz and Jean Michel Basquiat. In celebration of these two artists there will a live Haitian musical performance and also Brazilian music (not live from what I can tell, but still probably pretty fun). The live performance will be given at 1 and 2 pm.

There will be also be two creative activities for children - art making with unusual materials and kite making. The grounds are quite large and children can fly their kite right on the grounds!

Click HERE for the Festival webpage.

I don't know much about Vik Muniz but from what I can find his work is quite whimsical and he often chooses unlikely materials to make art. This is something that kids of all ages can wrap their heads around.

I do know the work of Basquiat reasonably well. The exhibition of his work centers on some recently discovered notebooks. The subject matter of his work can range from silly to very heavy. He used words and images in his artwork. Some of his work is very narrative and easy to follow. Some is a lot more complex and isn't so easy to read. The form of his work is deceptively child-like but the concepts are anything but childish. Basquiat created art that can easily draw a discussion.

This sounds like a great event to me so I plan on getting my family over there, early enough for the live music! Hope you can make it!

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