Lesson: Miroco Machiko Wax-Resist Paintings
October 23, 2015 | By Rachel Zink
October is Art History Month at Arts For Life, and students are taking their cues from experts including Miroco Machiko, an award-winning Japanese painter and illustrator.
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Happy Boss’s Day, Rachel Zink!
October 16, 2015 | By Annie Rogers
This blog’s for you, Rachel Zink—aka, Arts For Life’s executive director extraordinaire!
September is Creatures + Wearables Month!
September 24, 2015 | By Rachel Zink
Kids at Arts For Life tables across the state have had to make room for some colorful characters this September—everything from bugs, to dancing robots, to symmetrical name aliens. That’s because it’s Creatures + Wearables Month!
Lesson: Book Page Flower Pins
| By Rachel Zink
September is Creatures + Wearables Month at Arts For Life! A wearable can be anything from a mask, to a pair of 3D glasses, to a fetching piece of jewelry like this Book Page Flower Pin.
Lesson: Bug Finger Puppets
| By Rachel Zink
September is all about creatures at Arts For Life, and our young artists have been as busy as, well, bees creating flying bugs! With simple materials and these steps, you can make a working finger puppet at home.
Lesson: Peace Sign Paper Sculpture
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!
Take the 25X25 Challenge!
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 Is Imagination and Mixed Media Month!
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.
Lesson: Perfect Day Poem Collage
| 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!
Behind the Scenes of “Art Amplified”
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!