rEvolving Fiction

in anticipation of our Flash Fiction event starting in June, we’re experimenting with collaborative fiction here on our website.  Do you want to help?  We’ve all done excercise like this before.  It’s like in art class when you make a drawing and then fold it over so only the faintest edge is visible and then pass it over to the next person to complete.  It can be so odd and challenging to release control of your vision… to place your words or pictures into the hands of a stranger.

Take the risk!

Join in the fun!

If you’d like to help us blaze the trail, visit the rEvolving Fiction page and request a login so that you can start shaping the collaborative story.  Its a good idea, but its rough around the edges.  Help us figure out how to make it work!

a brief survey

the st.elizabeth arts foundation is looking for ideas and insight.

do you have any?

we have a list a zillion pages long of programs and projects that we could do in norwood.
but we want to do things that are valuable and Good and cool and relevant…
not just in our heads…
but in our community.

visit this website to fill out our survey:

http://tinyurl.com/4pwtu8

many thanks in advance!

call for artists…

are you an artist with skills (or at least interest) in curriculum development?

are you interested in being a part of the more internal conversations as we develop our programs, plan events, brainstorm lecture series, etc.?

would you like to be a part of choosing our next steps?

we are about to begin some serious curriculum development in anticipation of coming spring and summer programs, along with some selecting of topics for a series of arts-focused conversations that we’d like to have. some conversations might be private… just between a few of us. some might be hosted at st.elizabeth’s. some might just happen on the web. if you’d like to join in any of them then put yourself on our mailing list. if you’d like to help plan them, then let us know and we’ll give you access to an artist-only web space where the members of our artist community can meet, collaborate, and brainstorm.

if you think you might be interested in serving as an art educator at some point, then this would be a great way to “test the vibe” and to influence the development of the programs we’ll be using. if you don’t want to work as a tutor, but are interested in contributing, then this would be a great [introvert-friendly] place to start.

Thanks to the bizarre huge-smallness of the internet - non-locals are very welcome to join our community in this way.

calling all high school art teachers…

we’ve started to hit the streets.

our scholarship application is public, and if we can get it into as many hands as possible before the end of the month, then our applicants will have a month to prepare their applications before the deadline.

high school art departments are at the top of our list of ways to find young artists who would be excited about this opportunity. we’ll be sitting down with our phone books and trying to meet a few.

do you know any teachers?

take it upon yourself to get our materials into their hands by printing the application form or forwarding them a link to our website.

OR - do you have suggestions for good places to turn for help in our recruitment and promotion? do you have a friend who works with youth who you think we should contact? use our contact form to give us the tip…

a few sparks of your brainpower and a few moments of your time could be an enormous help.

be the bridge between these young artists and this incredible opportunity.