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Family Days

Family Days

ALL AGES | Last Sunday of each month
2-4 PM
FREE admission all day

Families with children of all ages are invited to join us for Family Day—an afternoon of art-making, exploration, and fun! Activities include in-person projects in The Bass Creativity Center, where materials are provided to encourage hands-on creativity and experimentation. Families can also embark on a prompted art exploration of our current exhibitions using an art explorer guide—a playful scavenger hunt through the galleries, inviting participants to search for specific artworks, answer questions, and engage deeply with what they discover.

Each Family Day includes special Art Cares projects, focusing on therapeutic, well-being centered activities that foster connection and emotional expression through art.

FREE bus service available from Coconut Grove, Little Havana and Little River on select Sundays.

Upcoming Events

→Sunday, October 25
Masked Marvels & Miami City Ballet

Celebrate Halloween by mixing the unexpected, inspired by Gabriel Rico’s IX Mural from the series–Reducción objetiva orquestada. Families will combine shapes, textures, colors, and surprising details to create one-of-a-kind masks, exploring how different elements can come together to create balance, meaning, and imaginative new characters.

Join Miami City Ballet for an Explore Dance Community Class during The Bass Family Day! Designed for all ages and experience levels, this fun and interactive movement class invites children and adults to explore creative movement, express themselves, and connect through dance. Led by a Miami City Ballet Community Engagement Teaching Artist, participants will discover the joy of movement through playful activities and guided exploration. Come ready to move, create, and have fun. No dance experience necessary!

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→Sunday, January 31
STEAM+ Celebration - January 31

Celebrate our STEAM+ Student Exhibition and investigate reflection and symmetry inspired by The Kaleidoscopic. Explore the mathematics of symmetry by arranging colorful geometric pieces into repeating patterns. Families can rotate, flip, and reflect shapes to create compositions inspired by the visual effects of The Kaleidoscopic.

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→Sunday, February 28
Hidden Messages - February 28

Inspired by Sarah Zapata’s bold, tactile works in Against a State of Malevolence, families will explore texture, layering, and personal expression through art. Discover how colors, materials, and hidden words can come together to share messages of joy, hope, and connection. Don’t miss a special Soundscapes performance by the Miami Children’s Chorus in our galleries during our February Family Day!

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→Sunday, March 28
Journeys & Keepsakes - March 28

Inspired by Pepe Mar’s El Gato Negro, families will explore the objects, places, traditions, and memories we carry with us. Create imaginative artworks that celebrate personal journeys and the many experiences that connect us to people and places.

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→Sunday, April 25
STEAM+ Celebration - April 25

Join us for our STEAM+ Student Exhibition and find inspiration from Pedro y Juana’s Aqui. Families will explore how spaces can be transformed through storytelling and imagination. Instead of focusing on building or design alone, participants will invent the purpose, history, and inhabitants of an imagined world, using color, pattern, and everyday materials to bring its narrative to life.

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→Sunday, May 30
Tropical Together - May 30

Inspired by Pedro y Juana’s immersive installation Aquí, families will explore tropical color, playful pattern, and the natural world. Create vibrant works inspired by plants and flowers while discovering how individual pieces can grow into something bigger together.

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→Sunday, June 27
Build and Transform - June 27

Inspired by Abraham Cruzvillegas’ Autocontusión, families will explore how everyday and discarded materials can take on new possibilities. Build, rearrange, and transform unexpected materials into imaginative creations while considering how our surroundings are always changing.

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→Sunday, July 25
A Place of Our Own - July 25

Inspired by Abraham Cruzvillegas’ Autocontusión, families will explore the places that make a world feel familiar. Through maps, drawings, and accordion books, create a real or imaginary place filled with meaningful landmarks, favorite spaces, natural surroundings, and unexpected details that make it uniquely yours.

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→Sunday, August 29
Creative Equations - August 29

Inspired by Gabriel Rico’s IX Mural from the Series–Reducción Objetiva Orquestada, families will combine unexpected objects, images, and ideas to invent their own visual equations. Experiment with surprising relationships and discover that in art, there can be many creative solutions.

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→Sunday, September 26
Everything Connects - September 26

Inspired by Gabriel Rico’s unexpected combinations of organic and everyday objects, families will explore how seemingly unrelated things can form new relationships. Connect places, memories, people, and objects through playful visual maps that reveal the surprising links between them.

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→Sunday, October 31
Into the Unknown - October 31

Inspired by Pepe Mar’s El Gato Negro, families will step into imagined spaces filled with possibility. Create fantastical doorways to hidden rooms, magical landscapes, celebrations, and gathering places while exploring how imagination can transform the unknown into a world of our own.

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Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program. Generous support is provided by the Al & Jane Nahmad Family Foundation.

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The Bass is closed on
Thursday, September 24 for a
private event. The Rotunda will
remain open from 12–5 PM.

The main museum will reopen
Friday, September 25.