Hofstra hosts a backpack art adventure
Photo credit: Marjorie Pillar | The Hofstra University Museum's Sculpture Exploration Backpack offers an activity-based way for adults and children ages 4 through 9 to explore together the outdoor sculpture collection starting in the Emily Lowe Gallery at Hofstra University in Hempstead, with a backpack, guidebook and exercises. Here, Fiona Somers, 12 and from Rockville Centre, and Jera and Rose Gibney, 9 and 12 and from Goffstown, NH, begin to work on the exercises while sitting on a bench by a sculpture. (June 2012)
Hofstra University Museum's Sculpture Exploration Backpack
100 things every kid should do on Long Island
50 must-have summer toys
"Campus security is all affright
There are odd things happening during the night.
While professors and students are asleep in their beds
Something is happening, and it is quite widespread."
So begins "The Case of the Mystery Sculpture," a caper that sends kids (and parents) through the Hofstra University campus in Hempstead, looking for clues on five different sculptures,...
