Family Art Project: Digging into the Soil Science of George Washington Carver New York Performances

At Wave Hill, this family art project uses the life and research of George Washington Carver to introduce kids to soil science through hands-on making. The session links plant life, farming, and environmental stewardship to a Black scientist whose work reshaped American agriculture and public education. Presented in a kid-friendly, rock/pop-inflected format, it treats learning as a participatory performance rather than a lecture. It lands as a useful corrective to the way science history is often taught as a parade of isolated geniuses.