Arte y Español takes place on the first Saturday of each month (except for April) from November 2024 - June 2025 and features storytimes spoken entirely in Spanish to promote language literacy and exposure to the arts.  
This FREE one-hour program is held at the Allentown Art Museum and is intended for children ages 2-10 and their caregivers.
Each month facilitators from the Spanish Immersion Learning Center lead families through a three-part journey: 

1. Storytime in the museum’s galleries

2. Make a craft in the Rodale Classroom

3. Get a free bilingual book for each child

November 2 - 1-2 pm
Theme: Animals 
Book: Dónde estás zorrito? By Usborne 
Artwork: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lion Licking its Paw 
Project: Model Magic Animal Sculpture
Learn about animals and nature during a fun interactive book reading, then create your own textural animal sculpture with air-dry clay.

December 7 - 1-2 pm
Theme: Cities
Book: En la ciudad by Carron Brown and Stef Murphy
Artwork: Selection from Unexpected Perspectives
Project: City Color Transparency Collage

Explore and learn about what you can see in cities. Then, create a landscape collage with layers of transparent materials inspired by the photography of Abelardo Morell.

January 4 - 1-2 pm
Theme: Family
Book: ¿Eres tú mi mamá? by P.D. Eastman
Artwork: Rigo Peralta, Dona Negra
Project: Portrait Drawings

Read about family, explore portraits from the Museum collection, then make your own!

February 1 - 1-2 pm
Theme: Colors
Book: ¡Mezclalo bien! by Hervé Tullet
Artwork: Selection of prints from American Galleries
Project: Color Mixing Monoprints

Explore how paint is mixed to make beautiful colors, see amazing prints in the gallery, and then make your own monoprint.
 

March 1 - 11:30 am-12:30 pm & 1-2 pm 
Theme: Emotions
Book: El monstruo de colores by Anna Llena
Artwork: Sam Gilliam, Element
Project: Watercolor Monsters

Help Color Monster understand his emotions, explore feelings and emotions in artwork, and then make your own watercolor monster.

April 12 - 11:30 am-12:30 pm & 1-2 pm  
Theme: Time of Day
Book: ¿Qué es la luna? by Katie Daynesa
Artwork: Joan Snyder, Moon Theatre
Project: Neon Moon Collages

Learn about the moon and the night sky, then create a neon moon collage!

May 3 - 11:30 am-12:30 pm & 1-2 pm
Theme: Mexican Culture
Book: Celebra el Cinco de Mayo con un jarabe tapatío by F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada
Artwork: Selection from Unexpected Perspectives
Project: Paper Flowers

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, learn about Mexican tradition and folk art, and then create your own paper flowers.

June 7 - 11:30 am-12:30 pm & 1-2 pm
Theme: Gardens
Book: Juan y los frijoles mágicos by Hayley Down
Artwork: Selection from Tiffany’s Gardens in Glass windows
Project: Mosaic Collages

Read about a magical garden, see delightful garden landscapes in Tiffany’s Gardens in Glass, and make your own mosaic collage inspired by stained glass.