Saturday 8.3 & Sunday 8.4, 2019 | 11am – 5:00pm
The Creativity Tent for Kids offers two full days of fun art workshops for youngsters, held during the Church Street Fair in a big white tent on the lawn of the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. Each year MusicalMe, Inc., opens our activities with a sweet Saturday morning Music Together circle time for your littlest ones. For the rest of the weekend, kids and their families enjoy drop-in hands-on workshops taught by professional local artists, inspired by a wide variety of mediums and traditions. All workshops are free for children and their families!
2019 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
SATURDAY AUGUST 3
MORNING WORKSHOPS 11:00am-1:00pm
DEBBIE WU – Worry Dolls
Inspired by traditional Guatemalan Worry Dolls, create a doll of either someone you love or a person from your own imagination. Choose from a selection of textiles, pipe cleaners, paper, and markers to personalize your doll’s hair and clothing.
JAMIE KEIL – Wearable Wings
Become part of your art by creating your very own wearable butterfly wings! Use paper, markers, and yarn to construct and decorate human-sized wings to wear and display as you flutter about your day.
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 2:00-5:00pm
KIMBERLY DE LUCIA – Bird Paintings
Inspired by traditional Mexican Amate paintings, learn to create visual stories of the natural world. First, the paper is prepared to resemble the texture of tree bark; then a selection of neon paint pens are used to draw birds, flowers, and a decorative border.
MUSIC TOGETHER with MusicalMe, Inc.
A musical life begins even before birth; Music Together teaches you how to support your child’s growth and development through play, regardless of musical ability. Since 1996, MusicalMe, Inc. has shared the award-winning “Music Together” Early Childhood Music & Movement Program with more than 50,000 families throughout our the region. Join them in the Tent today to sing, dance, and play with your children, then visit musicalme.com to schedule your free class and experience first-hand the brilliance of this research-based program and the joys of making music with your little ones.
SUNDAY AUGUST 4
MORNING WORKSHOPS 11:00am-1:00pm
SUSANA TERRELL – Painted Butterflies
Using a Rorschach-inspired monoprint technique, you’ll paint one wing of a paper butterfly, then fold it against the other wing to create a beautifully symmetric print. Attach a stick and ribbons, and voilá, your art will “fly” around the fair with you.
MONICA GALVAN – DIY Button Making
Make your very own button! Create unique, layered designs with a selection of recycled drawings, cyanotypes, rubbings, fabric, and photographs to take home and wear proudly.
OME GARCIA – Women as Heroes Drawings
Celebrate the power and creativity of women from around the world by adding color, patterns, and texture to images of iconic heroines of today. You’ll create a colorful and high contrast work of art using an abstract zentangle technique with markers.
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 2:00-5:00pm
LINDA COVER – Animal Tin Embossing
Create a tin embossing by using a wooden stylus to etch a unique animal design into soft tooling metal. Then color the image with markers, creating a beautiful and shiny work of art to take home.
CLAUDIA STEVENS – Flower Drawings
Inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, use pastels to draw a flower from a bug’s eye view. Like a kaleidoscope, you’ll start at the center and work your way out using a repeated pattern until the entire paper is filled.
NORA SARKISSIAN – Squirdoodles
Create a unique abstract painting inspired by the work of Joan Miró and Wassily Kandinsky. Begin with a squirt of watercolor and coffee, then add a variety of lines, shapes, and colors to make a beautiful doodle composition.
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