Art at Home
Perfect for creative activity at home! Download and print the activities below, designed for young artists but suitable for all.
Outdoor Art Adventure
Omaha artist Mary Ensz created this fun creativity activity (emphasis on the "active") that encourages playful engagement with the outside world. This bingo sheet invites us to see the world right outside our doors in a new creative way.
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Union Exhibition Explorations
Union Exhibition Explorations offer a thoughtful look into a selection of past exhibitions in The Union's Wanda D. Ewing Gallery. Each activity provides background on the artist, their creative practice, and themes explored in their work. Inspired by these works, creative prompts are outlined for exploring similar themes in creative ways, using many easily available at-home materials.
Santiago Cal (2019): Download
Zoë Charlton (2018): Download
Lydia Cheshewalla (2022): Download
Sonya Clark (2018): Download
Angela Drakeford (2019): Download
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez (2017): Download
Vanessa German (2019): Download
Glyneisha Johnson (2019): Download
Caroline Kent (2018): Download
Delita Martin (2021): Download
Zora Murff (2017): Download
Althea Murphy-Price (2018): Download
Nontsikelelo Mutiti (2018): Download
Thalia Rodgers (2020): Download
Matthew Sontheimer (2018): Download
Angie Seykora (2017): Download
Alexandria Smith (2017): Download
Stockyard Institute (2022): Download
Ella Weber (2018): Download
Jordan Weber (2017): Download
Lachell Workman (2017): Download
Jave Yoshimoto (2019): Download
Roll-an-Artist
"Roll-An-Artist" activities, developed by Union Youth Engagement team, offer an easy way to explore and recreate the aesthetic of pivotal African American visual artists. Using a single piece of dice as your guide, roll your way to building your own image based on recurring elements in the work of three of the most iconic artists of the 20th Century.
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Try a Little Tenderness - Coloring Book
As part of her 2017 Wanda D. Ewing Commission exhibition, Try a Little Tenderness, painter Alexandria Smith created this coloring book based on several of her own works.
Creative Color - Coloring Book
This coloring book was created in the Spring of 2015 by students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha as a Service Learning project for their course ART4920 "Art in Theory and Practice since 1900." Each page features the image of a prominent Twentieth Century African American cultural figure and a short biography of their life and practice.
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Celebrate Juneteenth! - Coloring Page
To commemorate Juneteenth 2020, Youth Teaching Artist Cyrus Jefferson created this fun coloring page for artists of all ages to celebrate the end of slavery and the ongoing work for full liberation of all Black Americans.
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