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

→Family Day

→Sunday, May 31
United States of Creativity

Join us in celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States through a collaborative art-making experience that honors the creativity that unites us. Through color, texture, and collective expression, families will contribute their own unique pieces to a growing artwork that reflects what it means to be part of one creative nation- multi-faceted, dynamic, and united through art.

On View: Homeless Trust Poster Competition Winners

The Bass is proud to display the winning entries from the Homeless Trust’s annual poster contest, featuring powerful artwork by Miami-Dade County Public Schools students. These works reflect on how our community extends hope to youth experiencing homelessness through care, support, and service.

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→Sunday, June 28
Fold & Flow

Inspired by Sarah Morris’s Calypte Anna (Origami), families will explore how simple folds and sharp lines can transform into dazzling patterns. Using paper and bright colors, participants will design their own kaleidoscopic compositions that shift and change as pieces are rearranged—celebrating movement, geometry, and imagination.

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→Sunday, July 26
Beach Stones & Bright Tones

Explore bright color and playful texture across The Kaleidoscopic. Inspired by Paola Pivi’s pearl-lined panels and Allora & Calzadilla’s field of vibrant flowers, families will experiment with gradients, layering, and tactile materials to craft “faceted” forms and sunny summer palettes—mixing fragments into fresh, joyful compositions.

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→Sunday, August 30
Framing Perspectives

Drawing from The Kaleidoscopic, families will think about how frames change what we see. In the Creativity Center, experiment with lines, shapes, and layers to build playful frames that highlight shifting points of view—just in time for back-to-school reflection.

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→Sunday, September 27
Collage Worlds

Inspired by Quisqueya Henríquez’s Frame Inside a Frame works in The Kaleidoscopic, families will combine textures, images, and shapes to create new stories from fragments. Explore variety and harmony by remixing patterns into imaginative collages.

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→Sunday, October 25
Masked Marvels

Celebrate Halloween with a design twist, inspired by Vagabondia’s theatrical apparitions and performance. Families will create expressive masks using line, shape, and texture—perfect for costumes and imaginative play.

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