Saturday, June 15, 2013 11am
Kidspace
FREE

Celebrate Freedom, the newest exhibition in Kidspace. There will be snacks, art-making, activities, and an opportunity to interact with the exhibiting artists.

FREEDOM: Just Another Word For… is Kidspace @ MASS MoCA’s contribution to this year’s three-museum project, Words & Images. The exhibition is a visual exploration of how words and art can have multiple meanings. It includes work by Xu Bing, Long-Bin Chen, Gonkar Gyatso, Ran Hwang, Ang Tsherin Sherpa, and Roger Shimomura, and features opportunities for children to develop their own interpretations and words to describe the work on view.

Words & Images, a three-museum exhibition project, explores the contexts in which words are used, and how artists visually express their meanings, and the different kinds of words that may be associated with visual images. The goal of this project is to help children expand their visual vocabulary, and to understand that there are many possible visual descriptions and symbols for words. Each of the three museums (The Clark, Williams College Museum of Art, and MASS MoCA) will develop a project (exhibition, curriculum, program) focusing on its interpretation of the theme, and the annual summer institute (July 8 - 12, 2013) will also explore words and images as the central theme.

The Kidspace @ MASS MoCa exhibition will begin with a focus on the word FREEDOM. In most American public schools, the topic of freedom is investigated in the social studies curriculum through the lens of American history. As a result, many children when asked to draw a picture about freedom, may be stumped to come up with anything other than an American flag or Statue of Liberty. The term, however, has much broader meanings, which this exhibition and related programs will illuminate. It will examine the artists’ work illustrating both the path to freedom and limitations placed on it. The artists have incorporated into their work their backgrounds and personal experiences, as well as their interpretations of symbols from popular culture and symbols in written form.

Foundation­–Legacy Region; and Price Chopper's Golub Foundation.