SILVER CITY: The Silver City Museum will host an interactive workshop for families and about families. Participants will create their own family tree and a unique family portrait.
 
With a focus on family stories and origins, museum staff will guide participants through the current exhibit Contemporary Casta Portraiture: Nuestra "Calidad" to use the artist Delilah Montoya's exploration of modern genetics and family ethnic diversity to reflect on their own families. Participating youngsters and their families will learn reliable and easily accessible ways to research their own family roots and will create an artistic and accurate depiction of their family tree.

Additionally, by examining closely the exhibition's sixteen contemporary family portraits, visiting families will explore how they themselves would portray their unique character or style to others. Participants will compose, design and decorate their family portrait. Visitors may also use the suggested interactive "room sets" that are part of the exhibit experience to pose and take their own family selfie and add it to the museum's virtual collection of Silver City Family Portraits.
 
The workshop is free. All materials will supplied. The drop-in workshop will take place Saturday, August 25, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Museum's Education Room located at 312 West Broadway. The workshop and museum admission are free to the public; a donation of $5 is suggested to help support the museum.