Hanoch Piven, AN INTERNATIONNALLY know collage-caricature artist, visited Omaha, Nebraska, to conduct arts-based workshop for families, teacher, and children. The workshops were organized by the Omaha Family Literacy Partnership (OFLP). The partnership promotes literacy learning among children and their families through community activities such as author and illustrator visits, family book celebrations, storytelling events, book distributions, and puppet show. The OFLP invited piven, an author and illustrator of children's book, because of his connection to literacy. Playful explorations with objects are his method of creating art, and this metrod was the focus of the workshops.