ICP Family Art Hour: “This Book is a Camera” with Kelli Anderson

Come experiment with new techniques and making art as a family during ICP Family Art Hour!

This session of Family Art Hour is hosted by educator and artist Kelli Anderson. Learn about a pinhole camera by exploring Kelli’s pop-up activity book This Book is a Camera during this hands-on in gallery art making workshop for the whole family.

Tickets for this program are included with museum admission. Come early or stay after to explore our current exhibition, I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now.

This Book is a Camera ($28.25) is available to purchase at ICP Shop. Purchasing the book before the program is highly recommended.

Families with children ages 4 and up of all abilities are welcome. Parents and guardians must remain with their children during the activity.

About the Artist

Kelli Anderson uses handheld revelations to reconnect people with the depth and possibility of their world. Her books force readers to touch grass paper. She created This Book is a Camera (MoMA)—which transforms into a working camera—and This Book is a Planetarium (Chronicle)—which houses paper devices (including a planetarium) and has sold more than 100,000 copies. Alphabet in Motion, an interactive book about typography and technology was published to wide acclaim in the Fall of 2025. The Washington Post book editor writes that “the work of literature that delighted me most this year is this pop-up book.” Other projects include a viral paper record player and—with The Yes Men—a utopian counterfeited New York Times, which won the Ars Electronica Prix. Doctors without Borders have used the award-winning Tinybop Human Body app she illustrated to communicate illness and treatment nonverbally to their patients in remote areas. Clients include NPR, the New Yorker, the Guggenheim, MoMA, Apple, and the New York Times. She has been nominated for the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award twice and teaches at NYU, SVA, and Cooper Union.

 
Images © courtesy of Kelli Anderson