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    Family Arts Academy: Animation Toys

    Family Arts Academy: Animation Toys

    Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

    April 17, 2010


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    These fun and creative workshops offer opportunities for you to explore artworks in the museum galleries and work on art projects while exploring and developing your creative spirit. In this workshop learn how the persistance of vision is a process by which a series of still images appear to move when seen in quick succession. In the 19th Century, optical toys used this process to startling effect, and these toys were a popular way of animating images. Learn to construct a phenakistoscope in which images on a slotted spinning disk appear to move when their reflection is viewed in a mirror. Also make a thaumatrope, or "turning wonder." As the thaumatrope spins, the series of quick flashes is interpreted as one continuous image. Instructor: Tad Sare.


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        Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

        118 & 128 N. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19102

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        Tickets: Members: Free Non-Members: Free with Museum Admission

        Info Phone: 215-972-2061

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        April 17, 2010

        Times:
        11 am-12:30 pm

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