Off School for the day? No worries - come join us at the METC Education Annex for our FREE Drop in Craft. We’ll be learning about and making Guatemalan Worry Doll, also known as Trouble Dolls. These pocket-sized friends are traditionally made from leftover textiles and are dressed in bright, traditional Mayan colors. Learn the fascinating […]
Who and what is a “Latinx”? And how is it different from Latin American? This lecture given by Emma Oslé, Rutgers PhD candidate, offers a cursory inside look at the diverse field of “Latinx Art” through contemporary artist production, mapmaking practices that date back to the 15th century, and a long history of visualizing important […]
Join graffiti artist Dan Fenelon for this creative workshop handcrafting masks using recycled materials and paper maché. Dan will work with students to create masks inspired by colonial history. Participants will learn how form using cardboard and other recycled materials, use glue guns, cut with scissors use paint, glue, and sequins to make their masterpieces. […]
The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts (METC) will be hosting Les Monarcas de Barro (The Butterflies of Mud) in collaboration with the mutual aid society Mutual Morris on the METC lawn Bottle Hill day. Please be sure to stop by and learn about these organizations. Les Monarcas de Barro is dedicated to ceramic justice, […]
As Halloween rolls around, we pull out the plastic skeletons without thought to what they represent. Skeletons are ubiquitous with holiday décor, but most people don’t realize how much we learn about our past from human skeletal analysis. The study of human remains in their archaeological context, known as bioarchaeology, provides tantalizing insights into past […]
