Youth & Family Programming

Parents and grandparents can enjoy a fun, activity packed afternoon at The Center with their children and grandchildren. This special event provides opportunities for multiple generations to explore art and ideas together, building confidence in self-expression through art making. The BIG IDEA project Free Pl...

Parents and grandparents can enjoy a fun, activity packed afternoon at The Center with their children and grandchildren. This special event provides opportunities for multiple generations to explore art and ideas together, building confidence in self-expression through art making. The winter family day will f...

Parents and grandparents can enjoy a fun, activity packed afternoon at The Center with your children and grandchildren. This special event provides opportunities for multiple generations to explore art and ideas together, building confidence in self-expression through art making. The fall BIG IDEA project Mar...

Join us at The Center as we reflect on the colonial history of the Americas.  We will spend the afternoon offering up alternative perspectives to stories based both in fact and in fiction.  And consider how one’s own perspective may affect how the story is told. In conjunction with the BIG IDEA...

Join us at The Center as we reflect on the role of the kitchen in shaping memories in our families through the exhibition At the Table: Kitchen as Home.  Family Day provides special opportunities for multiple generations to explore art and ideas together. We will be creating a memory box, drinking coc...

Participating in the democratic process can take a wide range of actions, from voting to running for office, attending city council meetings, or being an advocate for change. Join the Sun Valley Center for the Arts on November 3rd to celebrate the USA. This is an opportunity for families to express patriot...

Join The Center for a bee-focused Family Day, when we host art projects, a self-guided tour and Maker Space activities. Participate in the creative process, learn about the importance of bees, and have fun with your family and community. Family Day events provide special opportunities for multiple generati...

The U.S. is a country composed largely of immigrants, all arriving in search of new opportunities. This BIG IDEA project is prompted by current conversation about refugees in the U.S., it explores the topic within the larger framework of country’s history as a place of resettlement. With our family day even...

Join Company of Fools’ teaching artists for an afternoon of story crafting! We will explore the work of artist Holly Andres whose most recent photographs were created at The Center, Hailey, as part of the BIG IDEA Unreliable Narrator. Through improvisation, props and costumes we will let stories from the pa...

Explore the exhibition Contemplative Practice with Center staff and guest artist Kaleigh Surber and learn how artists are using balance and symmetry in their artwork. Discover circles we find in the world around us and create your own mandalas by using found objects from nature, simple drawing techniques and ...

Channel your inner robot! Imagine how you would express yourself through movement and create your own robot dance. Join special guest and dance instructor Melodie Taylor-Mauldin in creating hip-botic dance moves! Participants will tour the visual arts exhibition, tinker with circuit components and create l...

Come and make art inspired by the work of Idaho artist James Castle. Born in 1889 in Idaho’s West Central mountains, Castle was deaf from birth and never learned to speak. He communicated instead through his artwork, interpreting his surroundings with drawings created from found paper and cardboard, soot an...

Family Day events at The Center provide special opportunities for multiple generations to explore art and ideas together. In addition to exploring the exhibition I Need to Tell You Something: The Lost Art of Letter Writing and Communication Today, visitors will decorate their own stationery and envelope an...

Visitors will explore the Role Play exhibition with Center staff and guests from the Advocates and then make Surrealist-inspired portraits that visually mix and match a collection of elements from each maker’s unique personality. Family Day events at The Center provide special opportunities for multiple ...

Family Day participants are invited to explore the exhibition Sleight of Hand with special guests from Company of Fools, artists Denise Simone and Scott Creighton! Activities encourage visitors to consider what makes art original and what it means to be inspired by an artist. Get creative with theatre games i...

Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Lee Pesky Learning Center invite you to experience The Brain exhibition with all of your senses! This hands-on museum experience will stimulate your brain and have you connecting with art in new and exciting ways!

Travel through history to discover big moments in America’s most popular music movement. Families will tour the exhibition and participate in rockin’ hands-on activities! Part of The Center's Under the Influence of Rock & Roll BIG IDEA project.  

Families will explore our relationship with one of our most significant natural resources: the forest. We will start at the Sawtooth Botanical Gardens and wrap up with a tour of the exhibition at The Center. Part of The Center's multidisciplinary project Forest, Foraging and Fires. Family Day will be he...

Families can tour The Center’s Creativity at Work exhibition at 3pm & 4pm with Center staff. This exhibition will ask the question, “What does it mean to be creative?” How do different kinds of workers integrate creativity into their work?  Young artists and their families will tap into their own c...

Families can tour The Center’s Wish You Were Here exhibition at 3pm & 4pm with Center staff. This exhibition will take a look at travel, tourism and the American road trip through photography, painting and an installation. Once families have toured the gallery, they will have an opportunity to get their...

Families will have the opportunity at 3pm and 4pm to tour the exhibition with Center staff. Once families have toured the gallery, they will then create traditional paper lanterns.