Creating with the Masters
Art museums offer beautiful experiences and knowledge, but they are also often considered inaccessible, even for those with an interest in art. My project, Creating with the Masters, began as an exploration into why that was and how we could bring art outside the museum to reach audiences challenged to access museums.
My resulting activity book seeks to bring the educational and creative benefits of learning about art to people, wherever they are.
With both museum attendance and events becoming impossible as a result of COVID-19, this project needed to adapt to the current needs of an audience at home. It was important to still incorporate the elements that were identified through probes and interviews as important to this audience — including a focus on fun, educational, social, and free activities — to the adapted intervention.
The outcome of this project was Creating with the Masters, an art-based activity book that incorporates educational elements, artistic prompts, and coloring pages to encourage curiosity and learning about art history at home. The book is available as a free download on creatingwithmasters.com, and can be used digitally or printed.