Look and Learn With Hoot

Look and Learn with Hoot Friday, August 17, 2012

at the Mississippi Museum of Art
10:30AM
 

The Mississippi Museum of Art hosts an event for 4-5 year olds and their parents. This educational opportunity features a hands-on art activity and story time.This month's story is The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. Please dress for mess. 45-minute program.


Her teacher smiled. "Just make a mark and see where it takes you."

Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can’t draw - she’s no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper to make an unremarkable and angry mark. "There!" she says.

That one little dot marks the beginning of Vashti’s journey of surprise and self-discovery. That special moment is the core of Peter H. Reynolds’s delicate fable about the creative spirit in all of us.