Cancelled: Silverwood Park - Samantha Longley and Cora Williams - residency - 2 hours

Cancelled: Silverwood Park - Seth Erlab - residency - 6 hours

Minneapolis Institute of Art - residency - Elisabeth Callihan - 7 hours


Unfortunately this week, the April snowfall led to the Field Trip Friday at Silverwood being cancelled. We were going to be doing an activity with the pond which then got covered in ice and snow.


Madness at the MIA! Art in Bloom was this week! It was family day!

I was in the studio with one of the two art making activities that day. In the studio we were painting again with the tempera paint and canvas sheets. There were bouquets of fresh flowers on every table to serve as inspiration. Lots of participants painting the flowers they saw but some painted things that the flowers make them think of. There were paintings of their backyard, of somewhere they travelled with beautiful flowers or even a dragon eating flowers.

The activity was open for participants of any age. People really appreciated the quality of materials. We had several questions about what the ‘paper’ was. They were working on canvas sheets that came from a pad. Quite a few people asked where they could get them. At the end of the day, I had a child ask if he could have a few extra sheets because he doesn’t have art materials at home.

The studio doors close at 4:30 but people who are there are welcome to stay until 5pm. We had a few people who stayed right until five. I think this was a really good self led art project. It didn’t require a ton of clean up (there were some water spills). It could be as fast or time consuming as the participant wanted. Some came, painted a flower and were done in twenty minutes. Others stayed for an hour working on a piece.

It was a crazy day but really fun. I was in the studio the whole day but the other volunteers moved around every hour so I got a chance to meet a lot of new people and hear about everything going on. And any day you leave a teaching placement with a bouquet of flowers is a good day.

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