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SCRAP’s creative-reuse materials anchor a miniature-house project, with other free activities including blocks, a book raffle and children’s books. Museum admission isn’t required.
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SCRAP was founded to connect artists who lacked supplies with usable materials businesses were throwing away. That history offers context for SFMOMA’s Dec. 20 Family Studio, where families use materials provided by SCRAP to make an imagined house in miniature.
The project asks participants to picture a house and turn that idea into a miniature with materials supplied by SCRAP. The activity is linked to SFMOMA’s Floor 4 exhibition Building Outlaws: How to Retreat, Rebuild, and Reconnect, connecting the home-making prompt to a broader museum theme.
SCRAP educators design and lead the organization’s drop-in workshops, which draw supplies from its creative reuse center. Here, reuse is part of the way the project works: materials gathered for creative reuse become resources for a new art-making idea.
Further reading: SFMOMA · Family Studio: Let's Build! ↗ · Home ↗
In 1976, founder Anne Marie Theilen was overseeing a program that placed professional artists in schools, where a lack of materials made teaching difficult. At the same time, businesses were discarding usable goods such as fabric samples, industrial materials, product overruns and paper with incorrect logos. Theilen created SCRAP to bring those supplies to people who could use them; artist Ruth Asawa became its first board president.
SFMOMA describes SCRAP as working across arts, arts education and the environment. The museum’s profile says the nonprofit’s programs serve more than 33,000 people annually and divert more than 200 tons of waste from landfills. That background gives the miniature-house activity a local creative-reuse context without implying that this session’s materials come from any particular source.
Further reading: SFMOMA · Family Studio: Let's Build! ↗ · Home ↗
The listed project is a miniature dream house: participants imagine a design, then work with materials SCRAP provides. SFMOMA links the activity to Building Outlaws: How to Retreat, Rebuild, and Reconnect on Floor 4.
The workshop is at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
SFMOMA · Family Studio: Let's Build! ↗ · SFMOMA · Visitor's Guide ↗
Family Studio activities in the Koret Education Center are free, and you do not need museum admission to take part. If you also want to visit the galleries, SFMOMA lists general admission at $30 for adults, $25 for visitors 65 and older, and $23 for full-time students with ID. Members and visitors 18 and younger are free, but everyone entering the museum—including visitors eligible for free admission—needs a ticket.
SFMOMA · Family Studio: Let's Build! ↗ · SFMOMA · Visitor's Guide ↗ · Guidelines for Visiting SFMOMA ↗
SFMOMA describes Family Studio as an activity for the whole family; it does not state a specific age range for this session. Children 13 and younger must be accompanied and supervised by an adult in the museum. Strollers are allowed unless a particular program or exhibition says otherwise.
SFMOMA · Family Studio: Let's Build! ↗ · Guidelines for Visiting SFMOMA ↗
SFMOMA describes the SCRAP workshops as drop-in, but school or camp groups for children 18 and younger with more than 10 children must register in advance through [email protected]. These groups must have at least one adult chaperone for every 10 children. Chaperones are responsible for actively monitoring children and ensuring they follow museum policy.
The event information does not specify advance-registration or capacity details for other visitors. Contact the museum if those details could affect your plans.
SFMOMA says it offers accessibility services and accommodations, and that wheelchairs and cane chairs are available free at coat check. The event information does not describe this workshop’s specific setup. For questions about arrangements, contact [email protected] or 415-357-4000.
SFMOMA lists its visitor entrance at 151 Third Street and says the museum is a few blocks from Montgomery Street BART and other public transportation. Its arrival guidance directs visitors to education events to the Joyce and Larry Stupski Entrance on Minna Street; Family Studio takes place in the Koret Education Center. The map link can calculate directions from your starting point.
The SFMOMA garage is at 147 Minna Street, a few steps from the Third Street entrance. It is open daily from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Published rates are $4 per 30 minutes, $26 for up to 10 hours, and $35 for up to 24 hours.
SFMOMA lists a 25% discount for members and 10% for nonmembers, with validation at the Floor 1 Haas Jr. Atrium. Discounts apply only to the first 3.5 hours; the garage page says parking after 3.5 hours is a flat $26 for up to 12 hours.
The project is a miniature version of an imagined house, using materials provided by SCRAP and inspired by SFMOMA’s Floor 4 exhibition Building Outlaws: How to Retreat, Rebuild, and Reconnect.
No. Family Studio activities in the Koret Education Center are free. Gallery admission is separate; everyone entering the museum needs a ticket, including visitors eligible for free admission.
SFMOMA · Family Studio: Let's Build! ↗ · SFMOMA · Visitor's Guide ↗ · Guidelines for Visiting SFMOMA ↗
Family Studio also offers free drop-in art-making, a book raffle, blocks for play, and children’s books to browse and read.
SFMOMA does not give a specific age range for this activity. Children 13 and younger must be accompanied and supervised by an adult in the museum.
SFMOMA · Family Studio: Let's Build! ↗ · Guidelines for Visiting SFMOMA ↗
The event is in the Floor 2 Koret Education Center. SFMOMA’s arrival guidance directs visitors to education events to the Joyce and Larry Stupski Entrance on Minna Street.
SFMOMA · Family Studio: Let's Build! ↗ · Getting Here · SFMOMA ↗
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
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