Live within driving distance of Albany? Looking for some Edu-tainment for those kiddos at home? We've got you covered.

Pick up a FREE, weekly Activity Kit from our special trunk outside the museum!

Each week, we will have two new craft-kits prepared for Ages 5-12.

Activities will combine Visual Art with STEM, Motor-skill Development, Social Studies or Language Arts themes.

Available 24/7 @ front gates of OJAC Sculpture Courtyard. One per student, please!
[*No interaction with museum staff required for pickup; call us with questions!]

Tag us with your creations! We choose a weekly photo winner to receive a goody bag of arts and crafts supplies!

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Bring the whole herd and explore a spring water festival from the country of Thailand!

Enjoy music, crafts, games, and refreshments inspired by Songkran traditions.

Create a lily pad fan, try your hand at our Elephant Ring-toss or Lotus Spray-Race, embark on a Splash Scavenger, decorate our Sand Stupa, and add your wish to our community spring mural! 

All OJAC Family Festivals are FREE and open to the public

Each Third Thursday, Adult visitors are invited to "try-out" a new art medium (from clay to encaustic, felting to watercolor, sculpture, weaving, and welding ... just to name a few.)

Participants create with an experienced art educator in a fun and laid-back workshop environment.

This month, bring a friend and your favorite bottle of wine and explore the basics of stained glass. Then create colorful, reflective stakes for your pots or garden this season!

All supplies provided | $15 members; $20 non-members

BYOB | 21+ only

Pay to Register below, or call 325.762.2936

Workshop features a curriculum unit including lessons plans, handouts, projects, and immersive activities that explore the social, cultural, and historical role of Cowboy Poetry in West Texas.

Curriculum unit guides the development of a Student Work Booklet.

Unit lessons include:

• identification of primary vs. secondary resources

• how to conduct research on different resource types and materials (photographs, journals, songs, sculpture, etc.)

• a brief review of 3 different poetry styles

• an opportunity to compose/ create based on research

Unit activities include:

• peer share

• immersive “camp-fire” activity including tangible and audible enrichment

Very hands-on workshop; leave with curriculum packets, digital images for classroom use, finished samples and freebies! 

CPE Credit ‣ 6.0

Subject(s) ‣Language Arts, Social Studies, Texas History, US History, Art

Grade(s) ‣ 4, 5, 6, 7

Audience(s) ‣ Social Studies Instructors, History Instructors, English Instructors, General Classroom Instructors

Language & Visual Art Connections for Early Readers

Our most popular workshop each summer!

Come again and enjoy NEW materials and projects that blend language and visual art in fun ways for early learners!

Workshop provides a year’s worth of monthly enrichment lessons that connect classic and popular children’s literature with visual art and cultural artifacts from the museum collection. Each lesson provides strategies to develop or enhance visual thinking, verbal and listening skills for ages 5-7. Coordinating classroom activities/crafts are additionally designed to encourage creativity and fine motor-skill development.

Very hands-on workshop; leave with curriculum packets, digital images for classroom use, finished activity samples and freebies! 

Session #

CPE Credit ‣ 6.0

Subject(s) ‣ Reading, Language Art, Visual Art, Social Studies

Grade(s) ‣ K, 1, 2

Audience(s) ‣ Art Instructors, Reading Instructors, Language Art Instructors, General Classroom Instructors Grades K-2

Cross-cultural social studies presented through art and games for Grades 6-10

Engage your student’s visual thinking, problem solving skills and creativity!

Enjoy an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural sampler of games and crafts from around the world, inspired by the art and artifacts of the OJAC collection. Explore a variety of art processes, group challenges and kinetic activities.

Very hands-on workshop; leave with curriculum packets, digital images for classroom use, finished samples and freebies! 

CPE Credit ‣ 6.0

Subject(s) ‣ Visual Art, Fine Art, Social Studies, World History

Grade(s) ‣ 6th-10th

Audience(s) ‣ Visual Art, Fine Art, Social Studies, World History Instructors 6-12th Grade