September 24, 2015 | By Rachel Zink
Mia made a movie, and we’re excited to share it with you! She crafted all the characters, designed the sets, and “directed” this stop-motion movie – with a little help from her digital art teachers, Jenna and Sukhu, and another Arts For Life artist, seventeen-year-old patient Nathan. Thanks to you, this bit of movie […]
September 21, 2015 | By Rachel Zink
Each year, an International Day of Peace is observed around the world on September 21 to strengthen the ideas of peace within and among all nations and peoples. This paper sculpture is the perfect Peace Day project!
September 14, 2015 | By Rachel Zink
At Arts For Life, 25 IS A MAGIC NUMBER! $25 provides one art lesson for a child in the hospital. Take our 25X25 fundraising challenge to help make creativity, discovery, and joy possible for kids and teens in hospitals across North Carolina.
August 24, 2015 | By Rachel Zink
If kids can think of it, Arts For Life teachers can help them make it! This month, we’re celebrating just that.
| By Rachel Zink
This lesson combines both August themes (imagination and mixed media) perfectly in one project: a collage-poem depicting the artist’s idea of a perfect day!
August 12, 2015 | By Rachel Zink
It was fun to think BIG for our 2014 recycled cardboard exhibit, Outside the Box, at SECCA. So when our academic year intern, Katharyn Valier, began to think even bigger for this year’s show—proposing the idea to combine visual art and music, the two artistic focuses of our Winston-Salem chapter—we didn’t hesitate; the gears in our heads started moving and Art Amplified (which opens this week) is the grand, harmonious result!
August 11, 2015 | By Rachel Zink
Our latest Winston-Salem art show, Art Amplified: A Fusion of Music & Visual Art, was on display this summer at the Southeastern Center for Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA). We talked with exhibiting artist Erica about getting to be part of the BIG show.
August 7, 2015 | By Rachel Zink
Enjoy “Colors Reaching” by Colin Allured, inspired by 14-year-old Devin‘s artwork, “The Monstrosity.” Enjoy “Serious/Peaceful/Wistful” by Bill Stevens, inspired by 15-year-old Cindy‘s artwork, “Untitled.” Enjoy “What My Heart Beats For” by Becca Stevens, inspired by 18-year-old Tiffany‘s artwork of the same name. Enjoy “Here I Am” by Matt Kendrick, inspired by 9-year-old Karol‘s artwork, “Best […]
July 26, 2015 | By Rachel Zink
You know that yellow and blue make green. Red and blue make purple. Yellow and red make orange. But do you know about complementary colors? Primary, secondary, and tertiary colors? Analogous colors? Color families? Warm and cool colors? Our students have been learning about them all this month!
| By Rachel Zink
July is Printmaking + Color Theory Month at Arts For Life! Activities impress upon students the very important role color has in artistic composition, like this lesson, which helps them explore the brilliant effects of layering color.