Full STEAM Ahead | Mondays Join the Reading Public Museum for an exciting toddler STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics) program. Explore a different theme each week while having fun at The Museum with your little beaker buddy. Every week, we will explore a new topic based around a letter of the alphabet (D is for…) that will include science and art activities.

Program runs 9:30–11am. Pricing includes Museum admission, activities, and snack for toddlers. Reservations Required. Reservation deadline is 24 hours prior to event. Please contact Coleen Mikucki at coleen.mikucki@readingpublicmuseum.org or call 610.371.5850 x227.  All program participants will be required to sign a COVID-19 liability waiver to attend each program. SAFETY PROTOCOLS LISTED BELOW UPCOMING DATES.

Program Pricing:

$20 for Members (Includes 1 adult & 1 child); $5 for each additional adult or child.
$25 for Non-Members (Includes 1 adult & 1 child); $5 for each additional adult or child.

Join the Riverside Art Museum for a guided descriptive tour of four select works from Golden Hour. These tours will provide extensive verbal descriptions, including information on artist processes, photographic compositions, and historical context. Individuals that are blind or have low vision are encouraged to attend these tours, but all individuals are welcome to participate.

Email either to RSVP: cmarsella@riversideartmuseum.org or claraedawson@gmail.com.

Join the Riverside Art Museum for a guided descriptive tour of four select works from Golden Hour. These tours will provide extensive verbal descriptions, including information on artist processes, photographic compositions, and historical context. Individuals that are blind or have low vision are encouraged to attend these tours, but all individuals are welcome to participate.

Email either to RSVP: cmarsella@riversideartmuseum.org or claraedawson@gmail.com.

Join the Riverside Art Museum for a guided descriptive tour of four select works from Golden Hour. These tours will provide extensive verbal descriptions, including information on artist processes, photographic compositions, and historical context. Individuals that are blind or have low vision are encouraged to attend these tours, but all individuals are welcome to participate.

Email either to RSVP: cmarsella@riversideartmuseum.org or claraedawson@gmail.com.

Join the Riverside Art Museum for a guided descriptive tour of four select works from Golden Hour. These tours will provide extensive verbal descriptions, including information on artist processes, photographic compositions, and historical context. Individuals that are blind or have low vision are encouraged to attend these tours, but all individuals are welcome to participate.

Email either to RSVP:  cmarsella@riversideartmuseum.org or claraedawson@gmail.com.

Full STEAM Ahead | Mondays Join the Reading Public Museum for an exciting toddler STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics) program. Explore a different theme each week while having fun at The Museum with your little beaker buddy. Every week, we will explore a new topic based around a letter of the alphabet (D is for…) that will include science and art activities.

Program runs 9:30–11am. Pricing includes Museum admission, activities, and snack for toddlers. Reservations Required. Reservation deadline is 24 hours prior to event. Please contact Coleen Mikucki at coleen.mikucki@readingpublicmuseum.org or call 610.371.5850 x227.  All program participants will be required to sign a COVID-19 liability waiver to attend each program. SAFETY PROTOCOLS LISTED BELOW UPCOMING DATES.

Program Pricing:

$20 for Members (Includes 1 adult & 1 child); $5 for each additional adult or child.
$25 for Non-Members (Includes 1 adult & 1 child); $5 for each additional adult or child.

Join Bruce Hall, a legally blind SoCal-based photographer, in conversation with Douglas McCulloh, Senior Curator at UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography and RAM Trustee.

About Bruce Hall:

Bruce Hall’s night sky was devoid of stars, a vast sheet of darkness. Hall was born with a word salad of eye conditions: nystagmus, myopia, astigmatism, amblyopia, macular degeneration and exotropia. “I grew up hearing about stars, but I’d never seen them. When I was nine or ten, a neighbor kid down the street let me look through his telescope. We pointed it at the North Star. It was like an opening into another world.” Hall saw not just stars, but possibilities. The childhood glimpse became a turning point, directing Hall into a lifelong engagement with seeing devices: cameras, lenses, magnifiers, telescopes, computer screens.

Since then, Bruce Hall has constructed his world from photographs. When he looks into your eyes, it’ll be on his forty-inch Sony high definition monitor. Most photographers see in order to photograph. Bruce Hall photographs in order to see.

“I think all photographers take pictures in order to see, but for me it’s a necessity. I can’t see without optical devices, cameras. Therefore, it’s become an obsession. It’s beyond being in love with cameras; I need cameras.” Susan Sontag called photographs objects “that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern.” By this logic, Hall leads a hypermodern life, employing an ever-present camera to build his visual world one photograph at a time.

Hall calls his device-enabled interface with the world “intensified seeing.” The devices are extensions, amplifications of his body. “Without cameras, my life would be bleak. With cameras, I can see.” The result is a strange form of double vision. “I always see things twice. First, I see an impression. I take what I think I see, later I can see what I saw. I have certain aims, guesses, impressions, but the photographs are always a surprise.”

by Douglas McCulloh, Curator, sight unseen, International Photography by Blind Artists.

Email either to RSVP:  cmarsella@riversideartmuseum.org or claraedawson@gmail.com.

Full STEAM Ahead | Mondays Join the Reading Public Museum for an exciting toddler STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics) program. Explore a different theme each week while having fun at The Museum with your little beaker buddy. Every week, we will explore a new topic based around a letter of the alphabet (D is for…) that will include science and art activities.

Program runs 9:30–11am. Pricing includes Museum admission, activities, and snack for toddlers. Reservations Required. Reservation deadline is 24 hours prior to event. Please contact Coleen Mikucki at coleen.mikucki@readingpublicmuseum.org or call 610.371.5850 x227.  All program participants will be required to sign a COVID-19 liability waiver to attend each program. SAFETY PROTOCOLS LISTED BELOW UPCOMING DATES.

Program Pricing:

$20 for Members (Includes 1 adult & 1 child); $5 for each additional adult or child.
$25 for Non-Members (Includes 1 adult & 1 child); $5 for each additional adult or child.