Hammer Museum’s K.A.M.P. event raises $220,000 for children’s programs
The Kids Art Museum Project (K.A.M.P) is a unique family fundraiser that provides kids of all ages the chance to be creative with Los Angeles-based artists. Each year, local artists host hands-on art workshops throughout the museum. This year attendees made art with artists and celebrity friends of the Hammer Museum. Proceeds from K.A.M.P. provide essential support to Hammer Kids programs, which offer free events to over 60,000 children and families throughout the year.
"For Sunday’s Kids’ Art Museum Project — better known as K.A.M.P. — at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, actress and storybook reader Sofia Vergara chose “Dragons Love Tacos” by Adam Rubin to share with the gathering of children.
The Kids' Art Museum Project raised money for the Hammer Kids program. (Stefanie Keenan / Getty Images for Hammer Museum) “I thought it was appropriate for the day of the [“Game of Thrones”] finale,” said the “Modern Family” star, speaking of the dragon-fueled TV juggernaut, before adding another reason: “Tacos are Latin food.”
Standing beside her, husband Joe Manganiello said he planned to read from his own copy of “Sir Toby Jingle’s Beastly Journey” by Wallace Tripp, his favorite book as a child.
“This is the actual copy I had as a kid,” he said, pointing to his name, written as a 4- or 5-year-old on the inside cover. “It was in a box, and it just came along with me from move to move. So I dug it up for this.”
“I love kids,” said the “Magic Mike” actor, adding that he’d had books shipped to the Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he’s from, and started a club for “the children stuck there.”
The 10th K.A.M.P. offered children an opportunity to create paintings, sculptures, collages and other art projects conceived by working artists. In between art workshops, children could duck into a storybook corner where Vergara, Manganiello, John Stamos, Elizabeth Chambers and Ki Hong Lee read to them."— Ellen Oliver, May 20, 2019
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