Fritz Horstman, Education Director at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation and recent author of Interacting with Color will join us to start a week of color. Learn color relativity, gradients, and illusions of transparency to help us build <...
Mud week has become a beloved tradition here at EWMW. This week we will honor Mud leading up to International Mud Day, on Sunday, June 29, 2025. This camp celebrates a material that is often overlooked. Heighten the senses, an...
Become a puzzle designer for others to solve. Carve out patterns that you see and bring meaning to shapes and colors. Devise Tangrams, pattern games, 3-D puzzles, and more. Use color, geometry, shapes, a...
Avast, matey! Join our pirate crew and help us find the treasure buried near the Eli Whitney Museum & Workshop. We’ll start by singing sea shanties and reading tales of long ago to learn the ways of pirates and seafarers. Next, we will build shi...
As America began to concentrate work and people in cities in the 19th Century, thoughtful educators and organizations advocated reconnecting children (and adults) with nature. We organized parks and camps where the air was fresher, schedules could be m...
Approximately 251 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the earth near the beginning of the Triassic Period. Archosaurs and pterosaurs thrived on our planet. In North America, Othniel Charles Marsh of the Yale Peabody Museum was the first professor of ve...
Slime is still happening, and never really went out of style. Slime was inspired by Silly Putty, another long polymer compound discovered in New Haven 81 years ago. The Chemist James Wright was looking for a substitute for rubber because World...
