Maker Morning at the Museum: A Patchwork Family Program

Join us for a special family workshop, presented in collaboration with our friends Erin Hanehan and A Great Good Space to celebrate the closing weekend of Layered Legacies: Quilts from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem.

Just as a quilt is pieced together from different fabrics, this family program brings together hands-on art making, yoga story time, and a community quilting project that gives participants young and old the tools to share their feelings out loud. Families will explore quilts as a jumping off point to connect with themselves and their loved ones, participate in a movement-centered story time led by Erin Hanehan, and use our Community Threads makerspace as a place to explore creativity and self-expression with a guided art-making experience facilitated by A Great Good Space. Plus, take a collaged work of art home with you and contribute your own work to a community quilt on view at the Museum.

This program is best for children ages 3 and up and their grown-ups.

About the facilitators
Erin Hanehan is a kids yoga and mindfulness instructor, a perinatal yoga teacher, a drama teaching artist, a freelance marketing professional, and a mother. Hanehan is passionate about supporting children and birthing people in standing tall, feeling confident in their bodies, and finding their own unique voices. She teaches locally at the JCC in Durham and online at Embodied Mothering Yoga, which you can join from anywhere. You can follow her work @ehanehan on Instagram.

Jeannine and Denise are the co-founders of A Great Good Space, an art and design studio that uses art and the act of making to embolden creative curiosities and encourage imaginative play regardless of age, skills, and/or experience. A Great Good Space believes that art is a celebration of our humanity and believes with ferocity that art is for everyone.

Photo: Felicia Ingram