Storytime & Art-Making Activity: Tar Beach

It’s Storytime! Follow along as Museum educator, Fran Garrido, reads Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold. Cassie Louise Lightfoot has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on “Tar Beach”—the rooftop of her family’s Harlem apartment building—her dream comes true. The stars lift her up, and Cassie Louise Lightfoot is flying.

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