Family Art Days - What's Missing Makes The Picture with John Nippolt
Sat, May 09
|San Juan Islands Museum of Art
Top and bottom, left or right each side mirrors the other with one side dark the other side light.
Time & Location
May 09, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
San Juan Islands Museum of Art, 540 Spring St, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
About the Event
Join us on Saturday, May 9 for this free Family Art Days class!
In this hands-on class, families will explore one of art's most fundamental ideas: that what's missing is just as important as what's there. Working with positive and negative space, kids and their grown-ups will paint mirrored compositions — one side light, one side dark — where the shapes on each side are defined by the spaces left unpainted on the other. The result is a single artwork that tells two stories at once.
Instructor John Nippolt — San Juan Island artist, painter, wood carver, and longtime art educator — brings a lifetime of teaching experience to this deceptively simple but visually striking technique. It's a class that teaches kids to see differently, and to discover that empty space is never really empty.
About Family Art Days (FAD)
Family Art Days (FAD) are designed for kids aged 5…