Jam out in an informal drum circle with Practice Makes Perfect Music Studio at the Museum’s final Jam Session of the summer!

Create music and camaraderie at this fun, multi-sensory music-making session for all ages. Learn about the history and uses of a wide range of drums and percussion instruments as you try them out for yourself. No experience necessary! Bring your own percussion instrument or use one of the many hand drums provided. See, hear, and feel how rhythm can engage all of your senses.

This event is inspired by Terry Adkins’ Native Son (Circus), part of the Museum’s Block Party exhibition, on view through September 17. The sculpture’s peaceful arrangement of cymbals periodically shimmers to life, generating clamorous and seemingly random music. Adkins was both an artist and a musician, and this work speaks to his interdisciplinary practice and his quest, in his words, “to find a way to make music as physical as sculpture might be, and sculpture as ethereal as music is . . . to make both of those pursuits do what they are normally not able to do.”