After the downpours of last week, we're happy to be in the sun again! this week is even more packed with programming than last! Wednesday, we'll be at Herman Park from 1-3 pm and Zone Rec from 5:30-7:30 pm where we'll be getting ready to let fun fly away with these colorful butterflies and bees created by Wendy Mahon. And don't forget, we'll be at Saint Luke's again Wednesday night as well, hanging out with artists, balloon twisters, science experiments and fun galore! Thursday, Wendy will join us again at Lake Pool from 1-2 pm. Then, Thursday night you'll have to choose between rolling on over to Fairview Park for some rollickin' rock painting with cartoonist Jim Gill, or rockin' out with Cleveland Public Theater's STEP (that's Student Enrichment Theater Program). Either way, you're bound to have fun, before heading over to Tremont's Lincoln Park for Friday's Arts in August kickoff. There, we'll be joined by STEP once more, as well as the Cleveland Museum of Modern Art, who will give their stop-motion animation workshop a reprise - it all starts at 7 pm.
Scroll down for more shot's of last week's programming, and don't forget, if all that was too much to follow, you can always find complete information on our calendar!
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For 20 years, Cleveland Public Theatre's Student Theatre Enrichment Program has been building community and helping kids find their voices. Now, those same kids are teaching other kids, and growing up to be STEP mentors themselves. It's a fabulous program which cleveLAND4art at LAND studio is proud to support.
Learn more here, or read their most recent newsletter get to know some of STEP's participants, now active in the local community and graduates of some of the best theater programs around. Or check out the calendar below to see when they'll be on a stage near you! We're so thrilled to be working with partners like the Saint Luke's Foundation to create stronger neighborhoods. See their beautiful write-up on their blog, and be sure to join us again tomorrow for another day of fun! In case you're wondering about the artful composition of this week's photo documentation from Lake Pool with Jim Gill, you'll be happy to know that all of the shots were taken by guest photographers . . . the rock painters themselves. The rocks turned out great, and photos even better . . . guess I should kick back and let them do my job more often!
. . . AND IT'S UNANIMOUS! OUR YOUNG ARTISTS AT HERMAN PARK ARE THE FINEST FILMAKERS AROUND! With a little help from the Progressive Arts Alliance, they perfected skills in stop-motion animation. They started with claymation, but when they clay wasn't enough for them, they moved right on to filming themselves! PAA have them a helping hand editing it all together, and here's what they came up with: Were you there? Did you help? Tell us what you think in the comments below!
Another full week here at cleveLAND4art! Wednesday July 23 from 1-3 pm we'll have a media workshop with the Progressive Arts Alliance at Herman Park. If you haven't seen the awesome digital photos we took, check here. That night, we'll be at Zone Rec from 5:30-7:30 pm with the matchless Nicole McGee ofUpcycle Parts Shop. Lake Pool, Thursday from 1-2 pm, we'll be joined by cartoonist and musician Jim Gill, an expert at getting kids to tap into their imagination. Fairview Park this week we'll see familiar faces: Wendy Mahon on Thursday from 7-9 pm, and the Progressive Arts Alliance once more on Saturday from 1-3 pm.
Sunday, of course, we will rest. But not really. We'll be so inspired by all of the fantastic arts-based programming we've taken part in this week that we will break out the finger paints, paste, glitter, macaroni noodles, Silly String, recycled pop bottles and Gorilla Glue and proceed to make a horrific mess, covering ourselves, our clothes, our little sisters and possibly the neighbor's cat in all manner of sparkles and goo, before collapsing, tired an happy, in heap. Then we will awaken Monday, and do it all again. It might already feel like fall outside, be we haven't skipped over August yet! We're just gearing up for the best part of summer, with Arts in August just around the bend in Tremont's Lincoln Park! Stay tuned for more details, or visit our calendar or Tremont West Development Corporation for more details.
But we held it down and had fun, to boot!Or to kick, as it were: kickball, obstacle courses and plenty of bubbles graced the playing field behind the Saint Luke's campus. We were joined by our friends from the Boys and Girls Club, the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, the Cleveland Police Foundation, the Buckeye Shaker Square Development Corporation, the Centers for Families and Children, and Harvey Rice Elementary School. Under a canopy of trees, face painters, balloon twisters and artists' stations gave kids a place to get crafty. There was plenty going on, but that didn't stop us from giving people a chance to tell us what else they'd like to see happen! Stickers, markers and a neighborhood blank canvas were all we needed to get off and running, envisioning everything from kite-making and cooking to unicorn ballets! We'll post the filled-in poster soon, but until then, feel free to print out your own and draw what you see! Send it back to us and we'll put it online, plus we'll work with our partners at St Luke's to see if we can make you dream a reality! All in all, even the crazy wind couldn't blow our fun away. Between the fun, food (thanks, Captain Sulzer!) and all the families that came out, this was a day to remember . . . not that you'll have to, because we're doing it all again in two weeks!
These prints were full of nothing but sunshine!These colorful prints are made with batik -- an age-old technique of applying wax and dye. The wax resists the color and allows blank fabric to be preserved that, when layered, creates the colorful patterns seen below. The process takes patience -- you must start with light colors and work your way towards the darkest colors you want to see in the pattern -- and many days. By the end, the entire canvas is covered in wax . . . as well as hands, clothes, pets, and maybe even teachers! Good thing Robin Van Lear from the Cleveland Museum of Art has as much patience as these kids, because the end result turned out beautifully. thanks to Robin and the Rainey Institute, these young creators will be able to point to their work on display in the Museum, and accomplishment to make any artist proud!
In Lake Pool and Fairview parks, our young artists are getting to be old pros. Just ask visiting sculptor Kristen Cliffel and multimedia artist Wendy Mahon, who brought ribbons and collage scraps for fanciful fluttering butterflies, and gemstones to decorate picture frames extraordinaire. In just minutes, the crew was hard at work . . . and could barely be convinced when the time came to pack up. Of course, a silly opportunity to say "cheese" never hurts . . . We're always so sad when it's time for these guys to fly away. Luckily, it's not for long; we know they'll be back soon!
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