Art And Science Family Festival

Pique your curiosity at this interactive family festival celebrating Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide. See how light can dazzle and delight by making your own suncatcher and creating pictures with the power of the sun! Explore the medieval idea of the cosmos by making your own piece of wearable art based on your astrological sign. Imagine seeing Earth from outer space with a huge interactive globe where you can add elements to make the world a better place for us all to live. There is something for every curious mind at this free daylong event!

Southern California’s landmark arts event, PST ART: Art & Science Collide presents more than 70 exhibitions from organizations across the region exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present.

Schedule:

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM: All Day Fun

Global Community created by Kiel Johnson | Museum Courtyard - Outdoor Room
Take part in an epic collaboration with artist Kiel Johnson and his 8-ft. cardboard replica of planet Earth. Orbit the globe, imagine visiting the International Space Station looking back at home. Using air dry clay, pencils, markers, and cardboard, add your big ideas for our global community.

Astrofengaiá created by Dina Fisher | Front of Museum
Designed to embellish the beauty of our solar system's resident star, this home-spun shrine to light is made from upcycled and reclaimed materials. Its glistening surfaces create a meditative space where participants are invited to step inside, relax and listen to a custom soundscape.

Suncatchers Workshop with Hanabee Cartagena | Museum Courtyard - South Planter
Catch the beauty of light with your own suncatcher. Tie knots and link upcycled plastics with eye-catching materials to create a luminous suncatcher that will dance with the wind and light.

Cyanotypes Workshop with Dajin Yoon & Stevie Choi | Upper Central Garden
Create cyanotype prints while exploring the themes of climate change using LA’s native fauna and flora.

Astrological Embellishment with Marcus Kuiland-Nazario | Front of Museum Entrance Hall
Fashion fabulous blinged-out pendants that can be worn or displayed using your zodiac signs, inspired by the exhibition Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology

11:30 AM- 4:30 PM: Bubblemania and Company | Upper Central Garden
A “hands-on” bubble-making experience with a certified “bubblologist” who will assist festival goers in making all kinds of bubbles using a wide variety of wands in the shape of flowers, butterflies, dinosaurs, dolphins and more.

12:15 PM - 2:30 PM: Bubblemania and Company | Museum Lecture Hall
Explore the science and fun of bubbles with shimmering waves of soap films, rainbow bubbles, and bubbles of all sizes (and shapes!). Learn about reflection, refraction, surface tension and many other soap-bubble properties.

Performance:

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
dublab DJ | Museum Courtyard
dublab is a LA-based, community-supported Internet radio station and creative collective dedicated to the growth of positive music, arts, and culture.

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Infinite Flow | Museum Courtyard
Infinite Flow Dance is an award-winning LA-based professional dance company that employs disabled and nondisabled dancers with diverse, intersectional identities. They transform expectations and perceptions of disability by physically and visually modeling the world they wish to see through their work.

12:30 PM - 2:45 PM (Sunday)
Alexey Seliverstov, presented by Living Earth | Lower Central Garden
Russian born, LA-based, experimental composer Alexey Seliverstov combines field recordings, reel-to-reel tape recorders, vintage and modular synthesizers to create music you will hear, feel, and experience. Watch Seliverstov conduct an orchestra of tape decks, turntables, and occasionally unrecognizable machines.

Living Earth is an outdoor arts series that invites people of all ages to explore Los Angeles through monthly solar-powered performances. Founded and operated by local artists and organizers, their gatherings blend a love for music and native ecology, emphasizing deep listening as a form of reciprocity with the living world. By reimagining public art as a creative act of restoration, Living Earth aims to cultivate meaningful connections with our communities, histories, ecosystems, and the planet, ultimately rehabilitating our relationship with nature and ourselves.

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