This Week’s Book with Jim Weiss Storytelling: The Crow and the Pitcher This Week’s Activity: Handprint Crows Garden Story Time is back! Join us every Wednesday morning at 10:00 am in the Education Classroom for an interactive story session. Our weekly hour together features a mix of nature-themed stories, sensory activities, and crafts. Held rain...
A Welcoming Space for Art, Conversation, and Support This group offers a supportive space for individuals currently undergoing cancer treatment to express themselves through art and open discussion. Led by an oncology nurse navigator, participants are invited to share experiences, connect with others, and find encouragement in a calm, understanding environment. No art experience is...
This is a nature-inspired class for children ages 2-5. Each session invites children to explore unique materials for art, construction, science, literacy, and more. Whether painting with mud, building with sticks, experimenting with water, or storytelling with found objects, children will engage in hands-on discovery that nurtures creativity, problem solving, and sensory exploration.
Come celebrate the Day of the Dead with this fun craft! Learn about 3D-Printing, then paint 3-D printed sugar skulls while the movie Coco is playing in the background. For the tween event, we have Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur sugar skulls to paint! Ages 9 -12
Come celebrate the Day of the Dead with this fun craft. Learn about 3D printing, then paint 3D printed sugar skulls while the movie Coco is playing in the background....
What does Route 66 have to do with astronomy? Find out in this talk. Celebrate 100 years of Route 66! Begin with an exclusive talk exploring how the Mother Road...
Join us Wednesday evenings in October for a craft using recycled materials. This week we'll be making kindness stones out of river rocks. Feel free to bring your own smooth stones, but we'll also have limited supplies available. We'll provide the painting supplies. This event is part of our One Tempe One Book...
Welcome to the 2026-2027 edition of the Tumamoc Author Series, a collaboration between Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, the Southwest Center and the University of Arizona Press. In this third year, we continue the tradition of bringing original, diverse visions of the Southwest and engaging in lively conversations with our fellow Tumamoc pilgrims. On October...