At KID Museum we see artists as makers, creative problem solvers, and changemakers. The Visiting Artist Program invites artists to collaborate with our staff and community to create original artwork in our space and show how art is made. We seek to broaden the perception of art as a way to strengthen STEM skills, provide opportunities for storytelling, form cultural and community connections, create new pathways for identity exploration, and elevate creative expression.
Visiting Artists
We see artists as makers, creative problem solvers, and changemakers.
Art is my language. It's how I communicate.
- Ellen Xu
Current & Upcoming Visiting Artists
Yehimi Cambrón
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
Experience a swarm of migrating butterflies overhead as a symbol of joy, resilience, reality, and necessity of the immigration experience. This artwork will be created in collaboration with youth from KID Museum’s Makers for Social Change Summer Camp.
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Andy Holtin
November 5, 2023
Artist and American University Professor Andy Holtin explores making, kinetics, basic electronics, coding, and interactivity by using common materials and microcontrollers.
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Past Visiting Artists
Ubaldo Sánchez
Ubaldo Sánchez & artists from Raíces Culturales Latinoamericanas created a custom sawdust carpet to celebrate the grand opening of KID Museum’s new Bethesda Metro Center location in May 2022.
Simon Anton & Olivia Holt
Artists from THING THING showed visitors how to create decorative objects from recycled plastic – they even brought along their famous “Rainbro.”
Trisha Gupta
Trisha Gupta partnered with KID Museum to create a dynamic large-scale textile artwork using contemporary and traditional collograph and woodblock techniques.
Ellen Xu
Ellen Xu partnered with KID Museum to create a popsicle stick-created dreamlike environment, and visitors helped make a collaborative popsicle stick world inspired by the artist’s work.
