April FREE for ALL Saturday!
April 27, 2024 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Free, Fun, Festive and For ALL
The doors are wide open for a day of family-friendly activities in the galleries! Hands-on art-making, artist demonstrations, drop in educator-led guided tours, live performances, scavenger hunts and more, inspired by the A Year at Bradley: Representations of Nature, Self, and Symbolism and Arghavan Khosravi exhibitions.
What’s happening, 11 am – 4 pm
Mindful Maker Space for All
Come create artwork in our workshop, led by Museum Educators with Looking Upwards and Out of the Box Studio artists.
Islamic-inspired Mosaic “tiles” 
Contribute to our incredible mosaic wall!
Artist-in-Residence Drop In
Meet our April AiR Lori Larusso and join in a cool hands on activity.
Play Backgammon
Learn the ancient game of Backgammon from the best with Fardis Najafifard, founder of the RI Backgammon Club.
Collaborative Persian-esque Drawing
Using a template created by artist Eran Fraenkel, create your unique design by adding flourishes, dots, lines and patterns.
Persian Nastaliq Calligraphy
Ever wonder what your name would look like in Persian Nastaliq Calligraphy? Iranian American calligraphist Reza Hashemi will show you!
Persian Dance Performance
Delight in the beauty and grace of Persian Dance with Camelia Eftekhari.
Educator-led Guided Looking
Explore exhibitions in more detail through family friendly guided looking activities.
Eye Spy Scavenger Hunts
Explore every gallery as you search for detail images in our self guided image-based eye-spy scavenger hunt.
New to the Museum Shop
Handwoven pillows, beautiful bags and fine art prints by Down City Designs artists!
Original Persian-esque drawings by Eran Fraenkel!
FREE for ALL Saturday is free for everyone, and all materials are provided.
RSVP appreciated
Photo Release:
By participating in this event, I hereby give my permission for the Newport Art Museum to take and use photograph(s) of myself and my children for Museum publicity, promotion, documentation, and publication, including the Museum’s website and social media. To be used for Museum purposes only.
Meet our Artists and Collaborators
Iranian American Cultural Society of RI, founded in 2021, is a volunteer-based non-political resource group to celebrate culture, heritage, and language while giving back to our beloved Rhode Island. Find us on Facebook Groups.
Camelia Eftekhari started dancing at fifteen with Persian classical dance. She has been a dance instructor for many 20+ years, and in 2010 she founded her dance academy, Dance with Camelia! She has studied dance internationally and is professionally trained in Spanish dances (Flamenco, Bastom, Sambra, Quahira, Sevillanas, Fan, Manton), Latin dances (Salsa, Bachata, Tango), Waltz, Fusion and Tribal style, Heels, and Street Jazz. She performed at the Iranian Nowroz celebration at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and dance workshops at Harvard University.
Jerusalem-born Eran Fraenkel is a self-taught artist who moved to Providence in 2016 after 22 years of living and working in Macedonia, Brussels, Indonesia and Spain. His art reflects the cultural and visual environments in which he was working at the time. Since Covid, Eran has been exploring his mother’s family’s Iranian heritage by learning Farsi and by creating an extensive series of images called Persianesque. These paintings/drawings are intended to pay tribute to Persian art, but with a personal interpretation by the artist.
