A two-part workshop created to equip families with tools to discuss uncomfortable or challenging imagery found in movies.

A two-part workshop created to equip families with tools to discuss uncomfortable or challenging imagery found in movies.

Create your own stop-motion animated short featuring anthropomorphic characters!

Our May drop-in workshops will focus on character design, inspired by the Jim Henson and Frank Oz fantasy film The Dark Crystal (USA, 1982). Design your own fantasy character with foam modeling clay!

Build your own zoetrope and thaumatrope!

Create you own costume design illustration! 

Create buttons featuring stars and themes from Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971.

Create your own production design mood board inspired by the characters from Inside Out!

Create your own spooky shadow puppet diorama inspired by The Adventures of Prince Achmed.

Join museum educators and LAIKA Studios for a ParaNorman inspired demo and workshop! 

Join Lil’ Libros founders Patty Rodriguez and Ariana Stein, the authors of La Catrina: Emotions/Emociones, and Mariana Galvez, author of Where is? / ¿Dónde está? Mi Ofrenda,for a reading and book signing followed by a family workshop.

Join us for a printmaking workshop inspired by Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead and artist José Guadalupe Posada. 

Join us for special effects makeup workshops inspired by our Family Matinees series featuring weird and wonderful family hits of 1988!

Join us for an animation workshop celebrating Black animators in the film industry. 

Join us for a costume design illustration workshop.

Join us for an Earth Day–inspired workshop

Join us for an Earth Day family workshop!

Join us for a family movie poster design workshop.

Join us for family workshops inspired by Pinocchio (1940) and marionette shows from the Bob Baker Marionette Theater! 

Join us for a workshop focused on the importance of music in movies.

Join us for a mini food prop making workshop. 

Join us for an On the Road Location and Set Design Workshop. 

Join Academy Film Archivists, Taylor Morales, Edda Manriquez and Sean Savage, for a special interactive introduction to the art of small-gauge film editing and projection. Celebrate 100 years of 16mm film! All ages welcome. 

Join us for a ghostly prop-making family workshop inspired by William Castle. 

Celebrate Día de Muertos and learn to draw alebrijes with illustrator Hazel Quintanilla.

Join us for a Día de Muertos and Coco-inspired alebrijes workshop. 

Create your own Vertical Cinema clips! 

Join us to make your own 3D glasses and illustrations of iconic movie characters, and create a Pepper’s Ghost 3D illusion. 

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to make your own stop-motion animation! 

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to create characters from your favorite films using upcycled and discarded materials.

Celebrate 100 Years of 16mm film and join us at the Academy Museum for a drop-in Tactile Filmmaking Workshop in the Shirley Temple Education Studio. All ages welcome!

In celebration of Earth Day join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to build your favorite movie character out of upcycled and discarded materials!

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to learn about the different optical illusion devices created in the early days of cinema and create their own!

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio for a family workshop inspired by puppetry and celebrating Pride Month!

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio for a Claymation stop-motion workshop!

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio for a STEM workshop!

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio for an art-making workshop inspired by The Skeleton Dance (1929)!

Join Lil’ Libros illustrator Luis San Vicente for a reading and book signing of his newest book Huesos, followed by a Día de Muertos family workshop.

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio for a Color in Motion art-making workshop!