Free Family Day
1 Love Street
San Angelo TX
Price: Free
Date: February 15, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts will host a Free Family Day on Saturday, February 15, 2025. Throughout the day, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., the museum will offer a variety of art activities for children and families, available to the public with free admission, including entry into the galleries to view the Where Children Sleep exhibition and the Plein Air Landscape exhibition.
The Education Studio will host fine art activities from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., including creating mobile swing hearts and Love is in the Air hot air balloons. Story Time and a free children’s book giveaway will be presented in the Grand Hall at 11 AM and again at 1PM with books generously provided by the San Angelo Adult Literacy Council and anonymous donors. Other art activities will take place in the Grand Hall throughout the day. Light refreshments will be available while supplies last.
Free admission to the galleries is included. The new exhibition, Where Children Sleep: Photographs by James Mollison, is visually stunning and revealing, featuring portrait photos of 26 individual children and their “bedrooms”, which can range from elaborate sanctuaries to the barest spaces set aside for sleep.
The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Free Family Day is sponsored by City National Bank. Where Children Sleep is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions and generously sponsored by Susan and Mort Mertz. For more information about SAMFA, go to www.samfa.org. Follow the museum’s socials for up-to-the-minute news and information.