LUAG Community Workshop: The Artivist: Big Feelings for Big Change in Our World Today

with Story Doctor and Friends

Join LUAG for a storytelling and art workshop designed to help children explore how their feelings can inspire positive action. Centered on Nikkolas Smith’s picture book The Artivist, this interactive program invites young participants to consider how art can be a powerful tool for expression, empathy, and change.

We will begin with a shared reading of The Artivist, using its themes to spark imaginative drama activities that build confidence, compassion, and creative voice. Participants will then explore works on view in LUAG’s galleries through guided looking, sketching, and reflective conversation. Inspired by the story and their gallery experience, children will collaborate on a mural that expresses their own visions for art-driven change.

The book gently introduces real issues shaping our world today—including housing insecurity, climate change, gun violence, and human rights—and creates space for children to reflect on the “big feelings” these topics may bring up. Through storytelling, movement, and artmaking, this workshop supports children in expressing those feelings in safe, constructive, and meaningful ways.

Please register in advance. Space is limited.

If you require assistance filling out this form, prefer to share your registration information via email or phone, or have questions, concerns, or any accessibility needs, please email Elise at ejs421@lehigh.edu or call 610-758-6882.

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For over 30 years, Dr. Catherine Moore has been a language and theatre arts educator and has taught at Moravian Academy since 2006. With her Power of Story course, Dr. Moore transforms traditional narrative study into an experiential ‘story laboratory’, filled with blended learning, collaborative activities, and story fieldwork in our community. As the Story Doctor, Dr. Moore is an "edu-tainer" who delights young audiences with fun-filled storytelling workshops that make every story jump out of the book and come alive.

LUAG Community Days offer opportunities to drop-in to the galleries to explore great works of art from the LUAG collection and current exhibitions through conversation, hands-on projects, and sketching. Geared to children ages 4 to 94 and their adult companions.