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.

mailing list

we’ve added a quick and easy way to put yourself on the mailing list. if you haven’t done so already, then you can click here.

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.

maybe YOU don’t know what Facebook is…

…but your kids do!although we’d much rather have people hang out on OUR website than on facebook, the networking potential of facebook is undeniable.  if you’re not sure how to spread the word about St.Elizabeth Arts Foundation among young folk, sending them to find us on facebook might be a good start.  there’s a link posted to our website and also to the details on our 2008 Scholarship Competition.

if you’re a facebook member yourself, then go find us there.

contact troubles

greetings folk.

if you used our general contact form at any time before 11am january 8th, then due to little glitch in the website, your submission was not received.  please return to the contact page and try again.  alternately, if you had the original submission copied to your own e-mail address, then feel free to forward that message to contact@stelizabetharts.com rather than starting from scratch.

sorry for any inconvenience.

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