The New Art Experience is brought to you by a generous naming gift from Thaddeus Wong and Emily Sachs Wong.
Internationally- renowned, Chicago-born and raised artist Hebru Brantley was invited to partner with Chicago Children's Museum to transform the Art Studio into an immersive narrative-driven experience focused on allowing kids (and kids at heart) to let their imagination soar to new heights. The New Art Studio Experience creates a space for littles to play, explore, have fun, and audaciously believe that they too, can fly towards their dreams!
Kirby’s Clubhouse
Creates an immersive environment that offers children the opportunity to make the space their own by telling their own stories, making their own creations, and displaying their own art within it. Designed with a lower ceiling and a ramp up into the space with an elevated floor, it is meant to feel like a special clubhouse scaled just for littles (and those young at heart).
Sky Studio
Houses the museum’s facilitated art programming, which features elements that further inspire a little’s sense of “soaring,” self-expression, and the confidence to create their own original artwork. The studio programming activities, led by the museum’s arts educators, offer rich opportunities for children and families to explore a diversity of art forms, processes, styles, approaches, and artists.
*Programming will be offered on a rotating schedule for kids to explore Hebru Brantley’s artwork, artforms, and influences; narrative art; comic books, anime, murals, and more.
Visit our Program Calendar for more information on current and upcoming Hebru Brantley Art Studio Experience programming.
About Hebru Brantley
Hebru Brantley is a Chicago-rooted artist that creates narrative-driven work revolving around his conceptualized iconic characters which are utilized to address complex ideas around nostalgia, the mental psyche, power, and hope. Brantley applies a plethora of mediums from oil, acrylic, watercolor and spray paint to non-traditional mediums such as coffee and tea. Brantley’s work challenges the traditional view of the hero or protagonist and his work insists on a contemporary and distinct narrative that shapes and impacts the viewer’s gaze. For more information about Hebru Brantley and his work, please visit www.hebrubrantley.com
About Thaddeus Wong and Emily Sachs Wong
Thaddeus Wong is the co-founder and co-CEO of residential brokerage firm @properties/Christie’s International Real Estate, and his wife Emily Wong is one of the most sought-after advisers by clients in the city’s high-end real estate market and one of Chicago’s top-selling real estate agents. Thaddeus and Emily are residents of Lincoln Park and parents to four children. They are passionate philanthropists who believe in supporting the communities that they live and work in. We are proud to have them as longtime friends to the museum.