The trails at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts are like hiking, but instead of bears you find unusual, large, heavy objects. Art parks provide so much more space to experience the artworks than a museum. My children and I like a good sprint between sculptures more than crowded galleries with a nagging caretaker. Also, I’m …
Wynwood Walls is a neighborhood and a park. Walk these streets. Go early. Eat lots of food. Our approach to this art destination was simple because our goal was to notice things and be present. I want my kids and I to learn to be better at seeing what’s around us..the things that capture curiosity …
We love going to art parks! Not only is it harder to break the art, but we get to be outside! It’s like hiking, but expecting to see the unexpected. At Sculpturepark Cologne, our little ones ran ahead of us and straight for the helicopter, the giant hole, and the treasure boxes in the trees. …
We love to visit “art parks” or art collections installed outdoors. Their curation, intention, and influence range just as the size of these parks differ greatly. Some include more site-specific environmental installations where the work feels more discovered than placed. Others are formally arranged, so it feels like you are walking through a museum but …
The Laumeier Sculpture Park is located on over 100 acres at the edge of the city of St. Louis. It was drizzling and muddy when we began our hike through the “Eastern Woodland” section with grandparents and preschoolers. The art park is divided into a few different areas with some mulched and some paved paths. The …
Autumn is a great time to visit art parks! You can catch the seasons changing while exploring new art installations. But dragging your children to see art can be stressful. I wrote my top seven tips for taking children to an art park on Alexandra’s website ArtTrav. She writes about art and travel as an expat in Italy. Her site …
When my family and I visited the Gori Collection, we learned about the children’s tours designed by Stefania Gori. We took the general tour with our kids, but I saw pictures of children touching and playing with some of the artworks in their bookstore. They were engaging nature and art by pulling out sounds, textures, and …
During the summer, you can visit Guiliano Gori’s art collection at Fattoria di Celle. The property stretches over 70 acres of diverse rolling landscape. The artworks are all site-specific and thus take on a different feel than other collections in sculpture parks. Each artwork is integrated into the landscape by the artist. The ditches, bridges, fields, and groves …
The Chianti region of Tuscany is best known for it’s wine. Traversing from Florence and Siena, many people detour off the highway to the windy roads and rolling hills found here. During our tour, my three year old and I stopped at the Chianti Sculpture Park. There are over 26 artists represented, but there were two artworks that …
During our time in Tuscany, we are going to be close to these labyrinths. We plan to get lost in them and vote on our favorite. I wrote about why my children and I seek out both mazes and labyrinths in February. Read that post to find a longer list of mazes/labyrinths created by artists. And keep following along this …