Puppets as Art

Jesse Mooney-Bullock has his own website at last.

And its amazing.

Go look at it.  You can find a link on here.

He’ll be hosting a puppet-making class for middle school students that we’ve entitled Puppets from Junk.  You don’t need to be a sculptor or an artist of any kind.  Just bring a willingness to experiment and a couple random objects from your basement.  A broom?  A chair?  An old sheet?  A cardboard box?  Some old plumbing bits.  Some car parts.  You’d be surprised at the things that can be brought to life under Jesse’s fun and skillful guidance.  Get more info on this class here.

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!

Spring Break Art Intensive

THIS EVENT HAS ENDED.

Stay tuned for our summer programs, to be announced soon.

Join our mailing list to keep informed!

Artist Profile: Kenneth Hall

Kenneth Hall is a local artist and experienced educator who completed his MFA at Miami University, and has been active in recent months both showing his work and jurying for various competitions and gallery shows stretching from Illinois to Maryland. He will also be hosting the painting track of our Spring Break Art Intensive in March. We hope you enjoy these samples of his work as much as we did.

More about Kenneth Hall and his work will be added soon…

Artist Profile: Jesse Mooney-Bullock

Jesse Mooney-Bullock is a local puppet-maker and puppeteer whose rare talents in this specialized field are in demand nationwide. He’ll be hosting the puppet-making track of our Spring Break Art Intensive in March. We are excited to make his talents available to youth. Although this particular opportunity is for high school students, if you don’t fit that profile but would be interested in learning more about training opportunities with Jesse, use the contact form to let us know as we plan events for the coming year!

family portrait event follow-up.

we’ve developed our first “community action guide” - an important part of our work that is focused on developing tools that other groups can use to replicate our events.  this is absolutely a work in progress.  we haven’t settled yet on the best way to package this thing, so for now you’re looking at it in its fresh-out-of-the-brainstorm dress.  but while we fiddle about trying to make it pretty, hopefully a few of you out there will be inspired by the idea and will spend those good feelings and ideas into your own communities.

thanks again to all the volunteers who helped with this… particularly desiree for the photojournalism, tracy & renee for the cookies, david and megan for minding the door.

thanks also to juli and elizabeth for being geniuses.

am i forgetting anyone?  leave an angry message as a comment…

anyway… it was a great event… check it out here!

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.

Family Portraits - Event Summary

Thanks to all who participated in the Family Photo Event this past Saturday, the event was wonderful!!What a joy to have a constant flow of families wanting portraits. We photographed over 20 families and delivered some 300 cans/food to the Service League Food Pantry. Thank you all for trusting me to capture a moment of time with you and your family, and for all the people who helped in the organizing, executing and documenting of the day.

-Juli

Family Portrait Event

This weekend!

(December 8, 2007)

Choose your language and download a flyer for details:

Family Portrait Event - English

Family Portrait Event - Español