Family Art Event at St Aidan's Episcopal Day School
Great family art event yesterday at St Aidan's Episcopal Day School. I begin with this photo from our blocks set up in the children's studio space. The blocks out on the table invited parents and...
View Article40 Days of Making, Reflecting and Sharing
I tried a new project for Lent; I spent 6 weeks exploring my own creative process with a goal to make something everyday. It was a learning experience all around. I tried a new blogging platform and...
View ArticleCreating A Space to Create and Connect
In early March, I led an adult ed forum at St Peter in the Woods Episcopal church. What I created was a space for making - and it was such a treat to see everyone respond. It was great to meet in such...
View ArticleContinuing to Explore Art as Prayer
Back at St Peter in the Woods for an evening as part of their Lenten series, we continued to explore art as prayer. Once again it was wonderful to see people play and stretch and interact - with...
View ArticleA Week of Collage with Emmanuel Preschool
I spent a week in March at Emmanuel Preschool working with teachers and students to explore collage. This was a great follow-up to the hands-on training workshops I did with the Emmanuel staff in the...
View ArticleReflections with Staff at Emmanuel Preschool
I returned to Emmanuel Preschool after a week as Artist-in-Residence for processing and planning next steps with the staff at the school. The best part of this discussion was how the engagement and...
View ArticleMaking and Wholehearted Relationships
In Reading Daring Greatly by Brene Brown a few quotes jump out at me as I reflect in particular on the chapter on parenting with a whole heart. "Wholehearted parenting is not having it all figured out...
View ArticleExploring Creativity and Contemplation
I have been leading a book group for the last few months based on The Artist's Rule: nurturing your creative soul with monastic wisdom. We meet once a week gathered in a circle around a candle and a...
View ArticleArt in Community
Art at the Center is in a time of transition; to a new space and new ways of working. Part of this process has been to look closely at what is at the center of our practice. When we chose the name,...
View ArticleSharing Reflections from Robin
I share here some reflections from Robin, about her evolution as a teacher in her time with Art at the Center. I am thankful for how much I have learned by sharing this journey with Robin. I look...
View ArticleReflections from Robin (Continued...)
Here is the promised Part 2 of Robin's reflections on her process as a teacher during her time teaching with Art at the Center. This post is also a great opportunity to see some of the in-process...
View ArticleCollette Visits Fort Hunt Second Grade
I had a great morning yesterday with Fort Hunt Elementary second graders. They worked in small groups to create a setting and characters with collage. Collette had some great adventures and I loved...
View ArticleCelebration of Intention - A Post from Robin
Our sharing time at the end of classes is a key feature of studio work at Art at the Center. With students working on a variety of projects, it brings us back together to wind-up and reflect on...
View ArticleCollette visits Fort Hunt 3rd Grade
Adventures continued at Fort Hunt with Collette's visit to 3rd grade classes. Lacking enough brown scraps, this group came up with an inventive use of a rolled paper towel for their forest scene. An...
View ArticleCollette Visits Fort Hunt 1st Grade
Collette meets a stick man She visits a castle On a desk in the library Collette visits a movie theater. out in the rain Princess Collette at Disneyland - it then becomes confetti land. Collette in a...
View ArticleCollette Visits Fort Hunt Kindergarten
Collette finished her school visit on Thursday with the kindergarten. Here are some of the new settings and characters we met. A mermaid in the water Another undersea scene, with a sea horse The...
View ArticleThanks to the Fort Hunt Community
The posts that follow will highlight some of the great collage work from my author visit to Fort Hunt Elementary. I also want to thank the Fort Hunt community for purchasing books as part of the "Buy...
View ArticleSpace for Slowness
I drew this doodle inspired by a logo I saw from the slow food movement. They have a "snail of approval" award. I've been thinking a lot about spaces for slowness since reading this quote in Ursula...
View ArticleArt Workshops and Dinner Parties
"I don't think of working with art materials as"messy," although it is very possible that it can be so. When you sit down to a beautifully set meal table, it is impossible to eat without creating some...
View ArticleAttentive in the Way of a Conversation
I spent the morning as a guest at Mount Vernon Unitarian Church on the occasion of their Ode to the Earth Service. It was lovely to enjoy the music of the service, the readings and especially the...
View ArticleArt Day at Roslyn Retreat Center
On April 18 I attended a full day art retreat led by Bishop Goff at the Roslyn Retreat Center in Richmond. We met in the picnic pavilion pictured below - a great open space, perfect for a mild spring...
View ArticleSpace for Shared Practice - A Reflection on Art in Community
When I first became interested in art with children there seemed to be a split between process-based art and product-based art. Typically, process-based art is more open-ended, more child driven and...
View ArticleSanctuary Studio: Practicing Conversation....Without Words...
Sanctuary Studio: Practicing Conversation....Without Words...: I have an activity I often use to begin talking about observational drawing. It involves working with a partner with a set of blocks....
View ArticleSanctuary Studio: Different Kinds of Conversations
Sanctuary Studio: Different Kinds of Conversations: I read an article this week about my first drawing professor, Richard Crozier. The article originally appeared on the UVA Today website an...
View ArticleDevelopmental Stages of Art
I presented a few weeks ago to a new group of teachers interested in beginning a journey toward process art. Part of my presentation included an overview of developmental stages in art. These...
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