Designed by a chemist, each 1cm cube simply sticks together and allows you to build, shape and create. If you can think of it, you can build it!

Stack, link, shape, build in 2D, 3D or simply squish together for a sensory overload – the crackle noise is awesome! FidlBitz® is a genius toy that inspires creativity and provides open-ended, unplugged fun.

For over four decades artist Holly Roberts has explored her rich and varied inner world. With a strong connection to nature, both human and animal, she was an early experimenter in mixing painting and photography. From painting on the surface of the photographic image to cutting photographs into transformative shapes and applying to textured, painted surfaces, there is a connecting thread that binds her work.

This new book catalogues sixty works from this ground breaking artist spanning from the 1980s until today. It shows her rich body of work that defies convention and, within its unique melding of different media, evokes universal human concerns and experiences.

Hardcover
128 pages

The Great Wave was the first woodblock print in a series Hokusai called 36 Views of Mt. Fuji. With Mt. Fuji in the distance, the tension-filled wave ascends above the sailors in their long, narrow boats in what is considered a compositional masterpiece.

Observe, admire, and create with this open-ended puzzle! The only instruction is to exercise your imagination. Each tube doubles as a displayable container, filled with colors drawn from the color palette of this iconic work of art. Inside each puzzle tube you’ll find an educational flyer, where you’ll discover more about the artist, his style, and his life and work.

The set Includes:

A reusable, display-quality tube inside a recyclable gift box package
An educational and inspirational flyer
350 pieces in a unique color palette (Vanilla, Blue, Navy, Pastel Blue, Tan, White)

A man obsessively devoted to his craft, Gustav Klimt’s paintings are evidence that he was inspired by many things. In a style uniquely his own, he deliberately and proudly merged what inspired him onto the canvas.

Observe, admire, and create with this open-ended puzzle! The only instruction is to exercise your imagination. Each tube doubles as a displayable container, filled with colors drawn from the color palette of this iconic work of art. Inside each puzzle tube you’ll find an educational flyer, where you’ll discover more about the artist, his style, and his life and work.

The set Includes:

A reusable, display-quality tube inside a recyclable gift box package
An educational and inspirational flyer
350 pieces in a unique color palette (Coral, Vanilla, Yellow, Lime, Cornflower, Lilac, Gold, Silver, Black)

From building his own Japanese-style bridge in the French countryside and painting his pond garden over 250 times, to an unusual urge to capture the fleeting effects of light and color, Claude Monet was an inspired man. He was compelled to depart from classical painting methods by quickly dabbing paint onto the canvas in order to document how the natural world looked in that unique moment of time.

Observe, admire, and create with this open-ended puzzle! The only instruction is to exercise your imagination. Each tube doubles as a displayable container, filled with colors drawn from the color palette of this iconic work of art. Inside each puzzle tube you’ll find an educational flyer, where you’ll discover more about the artist, his style, and his life and work.

The set Includes:

A reusable, display-quality tube inside a recyclable gift box package
An educational and inspirational flyer
350 pieces in a unique color palette (Pastel Pink, Maroon, Forest, Apple, Mint, Turquoise, Camel, White)

Product Details

Material: Ceramic
Finish: Fully Glaze
Feature: Tubes attached to base
Year Designed: 2010

Dimensions

7.25 inches in length
3 inches in width
4.5 inches in height

On view at MOPA through September 3, 2023!

This survey of the life and work of Julia Margaret Cameron, celebrates the photographic genius as it reproduces the key works from her trail-blazing career.

Julia Margaret Cameron was among the most innovative and influential photographers in the history of the medium. Her distinctive use of close-up and soft-focus was groundbreaking. This book presents an engaging introduction to Cameron’s life and work through more than 100 of her most important photographs. Three sections explore Cameron’s unique artistry and range: from her early experiments in the art of photography, to her pioneering portraits of public figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir John Herschel, to her allegorical compositions and the artistic tableaus she created to illustrate Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. In addition to including pages from the original manuscript of Cameron’s autobiography and insightful explanatory texts, Arresting Beauty tells the story of her pioneering career and lasting legacy in one accessible and beautiful volume.

With contributions from Lisa Springer and Marta Weiss

Hardcover
208 pages
126 illustrations
7.4 in x 9.4 in x 1 in

Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.

This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa’s story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa’s extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, friends, teachers, and critics—to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of the artist.

This richly visual book contains over 60 reproductions of Asawa’s art and archival photos of her life (including portraits shot by her friend, the celebrated photographer Imogen Cunningham). It documents Asawa’s transformative touch—most notably by turning wire—the material of the internment camp fences—into sculptures. Ruth Asawa forged an unconventional path in everything she did—whether raising a multiracial family of six children, founding a high school dedicated to the arts, or pursuing her own practice independent of the New York art market.

Her beloved fountains are now San Francisco icons, and her signature hanging-wire sculptures grace the MoMA, de Young, Getty, Whitney, and many more museums and galleries across America.

Hardcover, 224 pages
Size: 7 1/4 x 9 1/4  inches

Build and display this adorable Pix Brix Vincent Van Gogh! The Van Gogh kit comes in a paint can and includes Pix Brix, instructions, and a printed Starry Night painting. Build this little whimsical pixel Vincent and display him in the paint can case with his painting as the backdrop. The perfect gift for any Van Gogh fan!

Not for children under 3 years old, due to small parts