Stop, Look, Listen

The Last Straw: A Participatory Art Project in which participants work together to build a free-standing tower from straws and JIX fasteners.

Scenes from The Imagination Station at the 2017 Downtown Festival and Art Show in Gainesville this past weekend.

Participants were invited to break away from preconceived notions about what a drawing ‘should’ be and explore new ideas, techniques, and materials that will engage their students in shared drawing experiences. The session was broken down into several drawing ice-breakers, designed to help participants take ownership of drawing processes, experiment with creative mark-making and observation, and then complete a final exercise where participants creatively combined elements of the previous exercises into individual collages.

Why Children's Drawings Matter  (via The School of Life)

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Been doing “spring cleaning” at the office and came across these old SchoolArts magazines. These are for you Nancy!

Weekend Painters, Downtown Festival + Art Show, Gainesville, FL November 4-5, 2016.

One of the highlights of our Summer Studios program this year was a visit from local artist Erin Curry who challenged us to create self-supporting sculptures using bamboo and tape. After working in small groups to get our structures to stand,  Erin had the whole group work together to combine all the smaller sculptures into one large structure. 

Happy 4th of July from Micanopy, Florida.  Oh, I love a parade!

I think art can make people conscious of things.  for people who have prejudices, it can make them see in another way, make them realize that other people in other cultures have similar experiences. -Elizabeth Catlett

One of the treats of going to the NAEA conference last weekend was visiting Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate (aka “the Bean”) in Chicago's Millennium Park.

UF arted students collaborated with design students on a creative activity book and wall for #352Creates this evening at First Magnitude in Gainesville

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.  -Romare Bearden

There is no doubt that the making of posters is and always will be a popular subject.  -John T. Lemos

Two simple book structures: An accordion book and a diamond book.

Scenes from the Imagination Station at the Downtown Festival + Art Show on Saturday, Nov 14, 2015.

Join us for the Imagination Station at the Downtown Festival and Art Show in Gainesville, this coming weekend November 14+15.