FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 18, 2019
Bronx Children's Museum hosts ArtSpot, a four-week pop-up arts festival in Mill Pond Park
BRONX, NY - SEPTEMBER 18 - Beginning this Saturday, September 21, Bronx Children's Museum is proud to host ARTSPOT, its first ever pop-up art-making festival on the shores of the Harlem River in Mill Pond Park. For four consecutive Saturdays this fall families and their children can visit the Bronx Children's Museum - right in the Museum's own backyard - to participate in playful and educational STEAM-based art experiences geared for children ages 3-9.
 
Each Saturday, from 11 am - 4 pm, Museum Teaching Artists and guests will lead children and their adult companions in a variety of nature-themed crafts, bridge-building challenges, interpretive dance, water experiments, and more. Featuring the Museum's Waters On the Go! suitcase exhibit, other activities scheduled include music, drawing, sculpting and water play.

Participants can drop in anytime throughout the day to learn about animal habitats and their life cycles, watercolor chemistry, nature patterns, animal sounds, and engineering. A different theme of activities will be featured each Saturday. Activities are ongoing throughout the day.
 
Also on site each week will be the Museum's big purple "Museum On the Go!" bus open for free tours. The bus features the mobile exhibit Waters On the Go! where visitors can explore the natural habitats and animals of the Harlem River and Orchard Beach.
 
Mill Pond Park is located on Exterior Street at East 150th Street opposite the Bronx Terminal Market near Yankee Stadium. ARTSPOT runs for four consecutive Saturdays beginning September 21 going through October 12 and is open from 11 am to 4 pm. All activities will take place at the park's outdoor classroom. Admission is free. Children require the supervision of an adult in order to participate. Activities vary each weekend.
 
Funding is provided by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support provided by Michael's and Gotham Stadium Tennis Center.

www.bronxchildrensmuseum.org/artspot19

About Bronx Children's Museum
Founded in 2005, Bronx Children's Museum is the borough's only cultural and educational children's museum designed to inspire children and families to learn about themselves and the diversity and richness of their surroundings, as well as the world beyond. Currently under construction, the Museum will launch its new flagship facility in late-2020 in a New York City Parks-owned building in Mill Pond Park near Yankee Stadium. Currently, a "museum without walls," Bronx Children's Museum serves more than 16,000 Bronx residents annually. Through innovative mobile programming, Bronx Children's Museum engages children and adults in the arts and sciences using its iconic bus as a roving learning environment providing access to children throughout the Bronx wherever they may be. The Museum also has temporary exhibits and ongoing afterschool and summer programming throughout the borough at community-based organizations, schools, shelters, libraries, local festivals, and parks.
 
www.bronxchildrensmuseum.org
 

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Bronx Children's Museum
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