“What Isabella Wanted” Children’s Storytime and Art Workshop

Join Art Teacher, Natalie O’Brien of South Windsor’s Orchard Hill School, as she invites elementary school aged children to discover Isabella Stewart Gardner and her wonderful art collection.  The story What Isabella Wanted, by award winning author, Candance Fleming and award winning illustrator,  Mathew Cordell will provide the background for an interactive art project that the children will get to take home.   

Isabella was a self-assured, fiercely independent woman with a passion for traveling the world and collected beautiful pieces of artwork, eventually creating a museum like none other in her Boston home.  She arranged her art exactly as she wanted with strict instructions to never move a single item.  That is why empty frames have hung on the museum’s walls since March 18, 1990, when several items were stolen in one of the most intriguing art heists in history!  

Mrs. O’Brien will read What Isabella Wanted and use some of the stolen art work in a “Visual Thinking Strategies” discussion with program participants.  Then, students will decorate their own empty frame before making a piece of artwork inspired by one of the stolen paintings, which they will be able to take home.

Don’t miss this one of a kind program!  This program series is sponsored by Aqua Pool.

Fee is $15.  Pre registration is suggested to save your child’s seat.