For the “Signs and Symbols” project, children from after-school programs and community organizations across Boston looked at how words and characters are paired together to convey messages. Working with Cambridge-based artist and author Caleb Neelon, the children then created signs featuring their own verbal and character-driven messages.
The Community Arts Initiative is generously supported by the Linde Family Foundation.
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Wayong Thao shows his unique skill for recreating Hmong villages in Laos and Thailand, and a knack for making miniature traditional items, at CHAT’s 8th Annual Hmong Arts & Music Festival was held August 22, 2009 at the Western Sculpture Park on Marion Street in Saint Paul. There is no Hmong word for art. Although the truth of this statement is startling and can trigger a stream of questions and assumptions about the culture, the reality is that there is a rich tradition of art weaved into the daily lives of the people. Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (CHAT) The 8th Annual Hmong Arts and Music Festival’s theme was “NO WORD FOR ART” and, with or without the word, will speak in its universal language to celebrate the artistic soul of the community. The Festival will be an illumination of the Hmong American experience with displays of creativity and talent in multiple forms that everyone can enjoy.
Highlights at the Festival:
•A Visual Exhibition Tent, showcasing a collection of artwork created by Hmong artists
•The Master Gallery, an exhibit of juried artwork selected by local professional artists
•The Main Stage, which hosts a full days worth of traditional and contemporary musicians and performers
•The IN SESSION: Singer/ Songwriter Competition, rewarding original compositions of the highest quality
•The Community Art Project–”WE ARE ART,” is a powerful display of artwork created by the community for the community
•”The LOUNGE” Youth Tent, a gathering space for youth to create and showcase
•The Cakes by Fhoua Cake Decorating Contest, Parade, Games, Family Arts Activites, Vendors, Food, Resources–something for everyone!
Duration : 0:2:48
Guests take their best throws at CHAT Board Chair Sia Vang, who volunteered for the fundraiser activity Dunk Tank at CHAT’s 8th Annual Hmong Arts & Music Festival was held August 22, 2009 at the Western Sculpture Park on Marion Street in Saint Paul. There is no Hmong word for art. Although the truth of this statement is startling and can trigger a stream of questions and assumptions about the culture, the reality is that there is a rich tradition of art weaved into the daily lives of the people. Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (CHAT) The 8th Annual Hmong Arts and Music Festival’s theme was “NO WORD FOR ART” and, with or without the word, will speak in its universal language to celebrate the artistic soul of the community. The Festival will be an illumination of the Hmong American experience with displays of creativity and talent in multiple forms that everyone can enjoy.
Highlights at the Festival:
•A Visual Exhibition Tent, showcasing a collection of artwork created by Hmong artists
•The Master Gallery, an exhibit of juried artwork selected by local professional artists
•The Main Stage, which hosts a full days worth of traditional and contemporary musicians and performers
•The IN SESSION: Singer/ Songwriter Competition, rewarding original compositions of the highest quality
•The Community Art Project–”WE ARE ART,” is a powerful display of artwork created by the community for the community
•”The LOUNGE” Youth Tent, a gathering space for youth to create and showcase
•The Cakes by Fhoua Cake Decorating Contest, Parade, Games, Family Arts Activites, Vendors, Food, Resources–something for everyone!
Duration : 0:2:51
James Kalm returns to the East Village for this tribute exhibition to the golden age of Downtown Grunge. Between 1981 and 1987 the East Village was home to over eighty galleries, with its own night clubs, cabarets and Rock’n'Roll venues. With its extravagantly decadent life style, this frenzied drug fueled scene was also the nexus of a flowering of gay liberation. The onset of the AIDS epidemic, hit a broad swath of this community, and many succumbed. In short order the entire milieu collapsed. Featuring interviews with Robert Curcio and Rick Prol.
Duration : 0:9:59
The Early Stage Dementia Group offers a service of individual support, activities and learning opportunities for people in the early stages of dementia.
The ST/ART SHOOTING! photography project has given an opportunity for participants to learn new skills and take some great photographs. Working with professional photographers the group shot portraits of each other in the studio at Dundee Community Arts centre and a wide range of photographs on a trip to Dudhope Park. They selected, manipulated and printed their own photographs and favourite images were displayed at the Tartan Coffeehouse.
The Early Stage Dementia Group is supported through Alzheimer Scotland’s Dundee Service and is funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
Duration : 0:5:51
I need lots of (and a continuous supply of) fabric for my textile art designs. I used to get them from a community project which recycled business waste (inclucing fabric remnants from fabric houses), but this has now closed. I have considered using stuff from charity shops, but surprisingly expensive. Any ideas appreciated.
check out the local clothing stores that do alterations.
They are kinda hard to find since too many people by clothes at walmart, but I buy my clothes at Men of Measure and I get big black garbage bags filled with scrap fabric…
The Early Stage Dementia Group offers a service of individual support, activities and learning opportunities for people in the early stages of dementia.
The ST/ART SHOOTING! photography project has given an opportunity for participants to learn new skills and take some great photographs. Working with professional photographers the group shot portraits of each other in the studio at Dundee Community Arts centre and a wide range of photographs on a trip to Dudhope Park. They selected, manipulated and printed their own photographs and favourite images were displayed at the Tartan Coffeehouse.
The Early Stage Dementia Group is supported through Alzheimers Scotlands Dundee Service and is funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
Duration : 0:5:56
the goal of the project is that me an a few friends take games, and fun to terminally ill kids in the hospital and set up events for different hollidays like halloween, christmas, and valentines day…we would do arts and crafts and play games and have prizes
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I am hosting a community art project on our college campus. We are going to use large rolls of canvas but I don’t know what kind of paint to supply. Would Interior Acrylic Latex paint work like you use on the walls at home or does it have to be straight acrylic? Also if anyone has ever done a project like this any additional information would be helpful!
If it is a short term project – it will be fine. For paintings intended to last for years latex will crack badly over time on canvas as it is a flexible substrate. You should be able to find student grade acrylic paint for richer colors you may need. Go to www.cheapjoes to shop for these.
Kids from Phelps Luck Elementary School in Columbia, MD and the Matnas Community Arts Center in Sapir, Israel participated in a year long literacy and cultural arts program. They wrote stories, illustrated them, and performed through an ancient Japanese storytelling technique called Kamishibai. On June 10, 2009 the two groups of kids shared and performed their stories over a live web chat.
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