Events: Homeschool Days – Bruce Onobrakpeya

Event Description

Join us for programming designed to serve small homeschool co-op groups and individual homeschool families! Homeschool Days are held four times during the school year, starting in September. Each session focuses on a new special exhibition and relevant curriculum connections, including docent-led tours in the galleries and taught workshops in the Greene Family Education Center.

Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross
May 12, 2023
10 a.m.–12 noon or 1–3 p.m.

Focus: Visual Arts
Homeschool students will explore the world of printmaking through the work of Nigerian artist Bruce Onobrakpeya. This solo exhibition focuses primarily on a period in Onobrakpeya’s expansive sixty-year career in which his work merged Nigerian tradition and folklore with Christian motifs and Biblical stories. This session includes a docent-led tour and a taught workshop.

Costs are $17 per child and the price of general admission per chaperone; this program is free for High Museum members. Caregivers must remain at the Museum during the entirety of the program.