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Beginning on Tuesday, February 20 the Farnsworth Art Museum will host a three-day art camp for children ages 5 to 7 years old. Led by art instructor Avis Turner this Chinese New Year themed camp will take place at the museum’s Gamble Education Center, located at the corner of Grace and Union Streets in Rockland from 9 a.m. to noon each day.

Participating children will be inspired by the Chinese New Year in this three-day art camp. Puppets are a wonderful way to construct imaginary friends with playful personalities and participants will learn how to turn an old fashioned sock puppet into a dragon using a sock, felt, buttons, ribbon streamers, and more. These puppets will fly; they will have names, favorite foods, and places to sleep. With these fiery new friends, camp participants will create a traditional dragon parade.

Avis Turner is an artist and educator with degrees in childhood development and art education, as well as an MFA in sculpture. She has over 25 years of teaching experience in both public and private school settings, and studied the Reggio Emilia Atelier approach at Smith College and at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. In this approach students are encouraged to be “constructors of knowledge” and “protagonists of their own learning.” The fee for this program is $98 and $80 for Farnsworth members. For more information or to register, please visit www.farnsworthmuseum.org.