This Native Museum, Briscoe Western Artwork Museum, Introduces Its New Storytime Stampede Collection!
The Briscoe opens its door to a stampede of enjoyable providing younger youngsters a FREE enjoyable strategy to be taught concerning the west. Households and caregivers of younger youngsters can get pleasure from Western enjoyable and tales every month on the Briscoe Western Artwork Museum’s new Storytime Stampede. That includes 30 minute packages designed for younger youngsters ages 18 months to five years, Storytime Stampede will embrace tales instructed and acted out, books learn aloud, motion actions, songs and artwork enjoyable. The brand new program collection kicks off Saturday, Sept. 16 and will probably be held 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. the third Saturday of every month. This system is included with museum admission.
“Households usually really feel that youngsters aren’t welcome in a museum, however exposing youngsters to artwork at a younger age opens them to new experiences – and might jumpstart their creativity,” explains Liz Jackson, President and CEO of the Briscoe Western Artwork Museum. “The extra usually youngsters go to a museum and benefit from the expertise, the extra snug they grow to be with artwork general. Packages like Storytime Stampede foster creativity and assist households join in numerous methods. It’s one of many causes the Briscoe presents free month-to-month packages for youngsters, in addition to free subject journeys – we imagine within the energy of participating and educating youngsters by artwork. We would like them coming to the Briscoe repeatedly to be taught and develop.”
Storytime Stampede is designed to foster artwork consciousness, superb motor improvement, language and literacy, cognitive improvement and social-emotional progress. Offering a wonderful alternative for households to unplug and follow their social abilities, youngsters may work on language improvement and listening abilities. Listening to tales gives youngsters with an opportunity to be launched to new phrases. As they be taught new phrases their vocabulary will construct – all whereas they’re having enjoyable.
Tales and matters for the collection embrace:
September 16: Hear “Bertie the Buffalo,” by Wendy H. Jones and make bison masks so you may play buffalo at residence.
October 21: Take pleasure in “The Three Little Javelinas,” by Susan Lowell and make maracas to benefit from the sounds of the West.
November 18: Hearken to “Formed by Her Fingers: Potter Maria Martinez,” by Anna Harber Freeman and Barbara Gonzales, then make Native American pinch pots to rejoice Nationwide Native American Heritage Month.
December 16: Mark the vacation season with “The Gingerbread Cowboy,” by Janet Squires, then craft gingerbread cowboys from paper.
January 20: Hear “Fry Bread,” by Kevin Noble Maillard, then make drums to start out the brand new yr off on a musical observe.
February 17: Be taught the story of Invoice “Bojangles” Robinson, the groundbreaking Black faucet dancer by “Rap a Faucet Faucet: Right here’s Bojangles – Consider That!” and craft rhythm devices to mark Black Historical past Month.
March 16: Squeeze some studying enjoyable into Spring Break with particular programming.
April 20: Take pleasure in a Western-twist on a traditional story with “There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea,” by Jennifer Ward and Steve Grey, adopted by coloring and creativity.
Might 18: Get prickly with “Cactus Lodge,” by Brenda Z. Guiberson and have enjoyable crafting cactus artwork as you be taught concerning the desert.
June 15: Giddy up for “Cowboy Camp,” by Tammi Sauer and enhance a cowboy boot collectively.
July 20: Add some candy to your summer time with “Rio Ruby Invents the Pecan Pie,” by Robin Davis, then have enjoyable coloring the official small mammal of Texas, an armadillo.
August 17: Meet the best coyote round with “Approach Out West Lived a Coyote Named Frank,” by Jillian Lund, then keep cool with some bandana artwork.
Full STEAM Forward on the First Sunday: Free Training Collection Affords Fingers-on Enjoyable
The Briscoe additionally presents “Full STEAM Forward”, a STEAM (Science, Expertise, Engineering, the Arts and Arithmetic) studying expertise to teach and entertain households concerning the West. Full STEAM Forward is paired with the museum’s month-to-month Locals Day on the primary the Sunday of each month, giving locals free admission to the museum and free hands-on instructional alternatives. Learners of all ages work collectively and be taught concerning the American West, with every exercise tying again to the Briscoe’s artwork and artifacts to convey the West to life in a brand new method.
From transportation and climate to animals, astronomy and engineering, every program explores a facet of life within the West to interact and encourage studying. Full STEAM Forward is designed for all ages to get pleasure from, making it a terrific household exercise. Take pleasure in STEAMing with your loved ones 1 – 3 p.m. on the primary Sunday of each month on the Briscoe. Upcoming packages embrace:
September 3: Full STEAM Forward – Artwork within the Sky
Examine the night time sky by Kim Wiggins’ “Colonel Crockett’s Return to Cibolo Creek”. After a brief research of the portray, everybody will create a bed room planetarium to take residence.
October 8: Full STEAM Forward – Pottery of the Southwest
Be taught extra concerning the pottery made by Native Individuals within the southwest, together with the methods they used to craft their items. Use these methods to create a chunk of pottery of your personal.
November 5: Full STEAM Forward – Native American Houses
Native Individuals lived in quite a lot of houses. The kind of residence they constructed match their tradition and way of life. Whereas studying about these totally different houses, put your engineering abilities to the check and use supplies supplied to attempt to construct a tipi, longhouse, wigwam or different kinds of Native American shelters.
December 3: Cowboy Christmas
Be a part of the Briscoe to rejoice the vacations and meet Cowboy Claus as he makes a cease on the Briscoe to listen to what all the cowpokes need for Christmas. Cowboy Christmas on the Briscoe is free vacation enjoyable, making the Briscoe the right strategy to make vacation reminiscences with your loved ones.
A Western Oasis: The Briscoe’s Assortment
Nestled off the River Stroll throughout from La Villita, the Briscoe campus consists of the McNutt Sculpture Backyard and options 35 sculptures portraying varied elements of Western life within the backyard and across the museum’s fantastically restored historic constructing that when housed the San Antonio Public Library. The gathering spans 14 galleries with Western artwork and artifacts, together with Santa Anna’s sword, works by Frederic Remington, Pancho Villa’s final recognized saddle, a improbable Alamo diorama and artifacts, modern and historic work, sculptures, a formidable spur assortment, and different cowboy and Native American relics, weapons and pictures.
To make sure the museum is accessible to everybody, the Briscoe options quite a lot of free and diminished admission presents, together with free admission for youngsters 12 and youthful. The museum additionally welcomes Bexar County residents with free admission on the primary Sunday of every month by its Locals Day program. Energetic responsibility army members obtain free admission year-round and discounted admission for his or her speedy members of the family. Retired army members and their households additionally obtain discounted admission. The museum additionally participates in Museums For All, Blue Star Museums and Financial institution of America Museums on Us. And naturally, members of the museum at all times obtain free admission.
The Briscoe is open Thursday by Monday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and closed to the general public on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Briscoe is positioned on the south finish of the River Stroll, close to the Arneson River Theatre and La Villita, with handy parking on the Riverbend Storage straight adjoining to the museum or one in every of many downtown floor tons. Museum hours, parking and admission particulars can be found on-line.
