Join the Clyfford Still Museum for a city-wide celebration of children worldwide during Día del Niño (Day of the Child) from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 27, 2025. Stop by the Museum’s outdoor forecourt to participate in a FREE art-making session with artist Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand. Participants will create seed bombs. The Kinážiŋ project is a land-back activation of returning Indigenous plants to urban areas of Colorado through a clay sculpture containing seeds that is quite literally meant to return to the land. Kinážiŋ(Key-Na-Zi) means to return to where you were moved from in Lakota.
Enjoy child-friendly dance performances by local groups on the forecourt:
10:45 a.m. – Danza Matachina Guadalupana
11:15 a.m. – Comparsa Morelos in Denver
12:15 p.m. – Colorado Youth Mariachi Program
This activity is free, and no registration is required.
Día del Niño is also an SCFD Free Day, so visit the Museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for free!
Learn more:
https://clyffordstillmuseum.org/events/dia-del-nino-2025/
Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand is a Sicangu Lakota and Cherokee artist from Taos, New Mexico. Her passion for community and social justice has led her to speak on matters of equality and cultural representation in pop culture. She is a graphic designer, illustrator, comic creator, and former co-chair of the Denver American Indian Commission. She has over 10 years of experience in after-school and summer programs. She is most notably known for her work with Pop Culture Classroom in their comic-based literacy curriculum, as a community and OBH liaison with the Jeffco Indian Education Program, and as a Think 360 Artist for her SEL lessons through design and pop culture. She is the co-founder of Create ayA Makerspace and the director of ayA Con, Denver’s Indigenous Comic and Art Festival.
Día del Niño is presented in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Center.
Also check out other Arts events in Denver, Festivals in Denver, Dance events in Denver.
