All Ages Artmaking: Wild World Mural
Sun, Apr 12, 2026
11 am–3 pm
Drawing on the wall at the Whitney, 2024, Photograph by FIlip Wolak.
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Floor 3, Artspace
Open to all ages
Artists of all ages are invited to help create a vibrant mural celebrating the many creatures that share our world. Inspired by Oswaldo Maciá’s Requiem for the Insects, choose a creature to honor and add it to the mural using drawing materials.
Visit throughout the day to watch the mural grow as more creatures appear, exploring how animals and insects fill our environments with movement and sound.
Oswaldo Maciá makes sculpture by shaping space with sound and smell. Here he immerses visitors in a symphony playing from speakers hidden inside glass megaphones that spiral down from the ceiling. Paintings loosely modeled after eighteenth-century naturalists’ field sketches form a backdrop for Requiem for the Insects. The composition weaves together the sounds of insects and shattering glass across sixteen different audio channels—an invitation to reflect on the extinction of insects and the loss of their calls.
