Group Fun

Dr. Neil Hitch talking about the Ceramic Art Youth Program

This week the Museum has several groups coming for tours and programs. Today a group from El Centro's United Methodists Ladies Club came out.  30 people listened to Dr. Neil Hitch give a talk on the history of the Museum, where it is today, and where it plans to go in the future.  Jessica Brody, our Head Curator, gave a brief talk explaining the curation process of the museum, what our volunteers do when they come out, and a behind the scenes look at artifacts before and after they have been curated.  She encouraged anyone who was interested to come out to the museum and volunteer to get their own, hands on experience with artifacts.

Dr. Hitch also described several of the youth oriented programs the Museum is doing. One in its' third year is the Ceramic Art Youth Program  where Museum staff go into classrooms and talk with kids about clay pots as art and let them try their hand at making their own coiled clay pots. The ladies were kind enough to help try out a new project and got to play with Play-Do, turning coils of clay into the petroglyph designs painted on our Museum walls.  Much fun was had by all!  

Petroglyphs painted on Museum wall

Coiled clay petroglyph