Are you ready for story time? Let’s get comfortable and listen to the soothing sounds of Joel’s voice as enlightening life lessons are read directly from a selection of the artist’s books. Afterward, you’ll be so relaxed that you may want to take a stroll, call a loved one, or go to the beach for a nap—whatever post-activity discovery you decide to embark upon, you’ll be fully present for it, or not.

There will be 4 sessions from 12-2 PM, at 30 minutes per session.

Are you already old friends, new friends, or would you like to be friends?! Let’s have coffee with our pal Joel! We will pour a cup of joe (with a choice of goat, cow, or almond milk), immerse ourselves in the Miles of Smiles installation, and hey, if the weather is nice, we might even go outside.

Cost: $5 for coffee with unlimited refills

Remember slides? Bring in your slides or someone else’s (and carousels, if you’ve got them)!  Slides of old work, vacations, a box you have no clue what it is, —whatever they may be—let’s look together.

A collaborative drawing and design session. Bring in your own chair or sitting object – something you sit in often (and that is portable) We’ll look at our chairs – discuss what they do for us and how the design of a chair comes about and ultimately how chairs are born—we will dream and collaborate to create the perfect chair.

Over the past 8 years, Joel Mesler has painted over a thousand portraits. Part performance, a hap-happy-happening, Mesler has created unique opportunities for guests and passersby to sit for a mini-portrait session at venues such as Independent Art, Levy Gorvy Dayan, and The Mark Hotel, on a ferry, and even at artist Austyn Weiner’s wedding. You, too, could experience portrait painting with Mesler!

More information to come to sign up for Portrait Painting with Joel (Don’t Stop Painting).

We live among many objects, big and small, inconsequential and those that hold great meaning. Bring an object from home, and during this session, we will convert it by wrapping it, painting it, and embellishing it, ultimately obscuring its original use and bestowing upon it a new exalted purpose – art!

It’s the final program to celebrate and unveil the community hook! The latch hook rug mosaic will have evolved throughout the time the exhibition has been on view, and now it will be completed and become part of the Wading Room.

This program has no fee, but feel free to make a donation!

Be part of—wade into—the start of a two-month-long communal latch hook rug mosaic that will evolve throughout the time the exhibition is on view. Upon its completion, the latch hook becomes part of the Wading Room.

This program has no fee, but feel free to make a donation!