Category: art in action
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Tiny homes!
My first workshop at Seattle ReCreative happened today! Building tiny homes with 2nd and 3rd graders from Boys & Girls Club. Delightful.
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Shalom Farms with Art on Wheels!
Kevin drew the designs and then volunteers at Altria painted the murals. Today was installation day! We drove the giant Art on Wheels van through a rain cloud to get the Shalom Farms as the sun came out. I didn’t see Dominic, my fellow Richmond Food Co-op member/owner, but I’m glad we got to fancy…
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Expressive painting and collage at Bolling House
Matt Cron met me down at Bolling house in Petersburg as a the Humana sponsor (and to play and get paint all over his work clothes) an expressive painting and collage class. Â Â
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Abstraction at Westminster Canturbury
My folks at WC finished their last class of the first session of Abstract Expressionism today. Here are some of their works in progress, finished pieces and action shots from the past 6 weeks. SO sad to see this class end because as you can see they are on to some stuff. .
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Scratch art engage tour with Veterans at Vis Arts!
We used crayons and soapy acrylic to make scratch art plates, then turned them into pendants, one to keep and one to share! Nothin’ like a bunch of gentlemen playing with crayons to warm my little heart! http://visarts.org/engage-program/ http://visarts.org/exhibitions/engage-field-trips/
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Creative Family Dinner Studio – Night 3 – Critical Thinking
Chicken Salad picnics for each family, delivered by the little food fairy, Karen Atkinson of Grow RVA. Tonight the kids worked with recycled home materials to make “silent instruments” for a family lip sync band! The grown-ups took advantage of the spring weather and sat outside. moving inside momentarily to use candle smoke to draw,…
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Richmond Eat Richmond t-shirts
I’m a member of this cool potluck group that meets every week (or every other depending on things) and it has a different theme and hosted by different folks at their homes each week. https://www.facebook.com/eatrva J and I both happened to wear our RER shirts that I designed to the vegan themed potluck this week…
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Shiloh Mosaic coasters
Senior connections Shiloh friendship cafe! MOSAIC COASTERS! Winners of free class for first application in!
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Welcome Jan!
I went down to Shropshire Studio to see what Jans’s up to in Manchester. She will be joinging th Artful Living team to teach Clay Bowls and Busts. Here is what she had in the kiln and some student works made by kids.
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Creative Family Dinner Studio – Night 2 – Communication
Jordan brought me home to pick up supplies from my car and out to the Belmont Rec Center for CDFS! Tonight was communication. After all that my phone died shortly there after . I think Liz has some so I’ll try to get those. Karen and Doug from Grow RVA brought dinner for everyone for…
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Mentoring Conference
I was asked to speak on a panel at the Virginia Mentoring Conference put on by the Virginia Mentoring Partnership. The panel was on Arts in Education. I made the attendees play Exquisite Corpse! A couple mentor folks even emailed me to get the specifics to play with their kids! Pretty good I’d say! I…
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Poetry for the Stage – Roscoe in the House!
I have never seen these kids sit so still in my life. Roscoe Burnems is an award winning spoken word poet! Check out website if you want him to shut you up, too! Seriously, serious.
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Creative Family Dinner Studio – Night 1 – Collaboration
This is my youngest collaboration brain child. Coordinating through the Cultural Arts Center, Partnering with Commonwealth Parenting (powered by the Children’s Museum of Richmond) and Grow RVA providing healthy dinner and an introduction to local foods, kids art class, and parent art class one night a week for 5 weeks. Night 1 food provided by…
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Poetry Matters, Paper Making – Maude Trevvett
The People’s Librarian’s came to Maude Trevvett today to help the kids make paper for their poetry books that will be housed a the Second Street Library. This program is Poetry Matters, through the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen with contributions by VCA and in partnership with Henrico County Police Athletic League and their…
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Poetry Matters!
Today is the start of my new Poetry after-school program for East End middle schoolers through the Cultural Arts Center, Poetry Matters. Today they started with Brittney Scott with Poetry for the Page, then thy will make paper and sew books with the People’s Librarians of Richmond, and then they will have Poetry for the…