I have exciting news! I’m announcing my first ever Creative Spark year long workshop series for adults. It will last from June 2019 to June 2020, and I’ll host a Creative Spark workshop at my house on every even month! As always, the focus will be on low pressure, deeply creative experiences, which inspire and…
Creative Spark Class — October 18, 2017
Join me for another evening of creativity and art. This time, we’ll explore prompts from my newly released (and award winning) book, Journal Sparks. As always, no specific artistic skills are needed — experimentation and discovery will be celebrated. Sip wine (or sparkly water), nibble cheese and treats, play with art supplies, and breathe deeply….
February CREATIVE SPARK evening workshop announcement
Join me for an evening of creativity and art. This time, we’ll use a simple printmaking technique to print on cards, prints, and even tea towels/fabric (if you bring some of your own). As always, no specific artistic skills are needed — experimentation and discovery will be celebrated. Sip wine (or sparkly water), nibble cheese…
Creative Spark Evening Art Workshop in December
If you are local, nearly local, or kind of local, please join me for an evening of creativity and art. No specific artistic skills are needed; experimentation and discovery will be celebrated. Sip wine (or tea), nibble cheese and treats, play with beautiful art supplies, and breathe deeply. {Details} Tuesday, December 13 7:00-9:00 $40 my…
Summer Creative Classes for Kids
S P A R K Creative Workshop for Kids This playful workshop encourages kids to experiment with color, texture, words, and abstract shapes. Each workshop features an engaging art project meant to celebrate experimentation and inspire creative thinking. There will be collage, non-dominant hand sketching, watercolor, printing, and story stones along with opportunities explore words…
Summer Creative Journaling Workshop for Ages 11-13
S P A R K Creative Journaling Workshop for Teens This playful workshop encourages kids to experiment with ideas, words, color, and abstract shapes. Each workshop features fun art and writing prompts meant to inspire creative thinking. There will be sketching, list making, poetry, collage, watercolor, and more! Time will be set aside for those…
Interview with the Art Studio Educators at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
I am fortunate to live only two miles down the road from the gorgeous, always inspiring Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. When I close my eyes and remember the time when my daughters were toddlers and preschoolers, I see park picnics, circle time at our town’s family center, rainy playdough mornings, warm banana…
Community Paper Garden — Teaching Notes
During my April workshop at the Worcester Family Partnership, the children and their loved ones gathered together to plant a community art garden. I brought the garden plot, which was a large piece of kraft paper, as well as the materials to plant paper flowers. We used circle objects to trace and cut circle shapes,…
Blobs With Personalities — Creative Workshop
For the past two years, I’ve been invited to run monthly workshops at The Worcester Family Partnership. WFP is a wonderful organization, which provides an educational, inviting, enriching, and nurturing place for families with small children to spend their mornings. They offer playgroup, healthy snacks, literacy events, and creative enrichment. I feel so lucky to…
Creative Workshops :: Spring 2012
Red Bird Crafts Workshops {for children and adults} [Spring Session 2012] Small Pieces {a collection of art & writing projects} Group 1: Ages 6-9 Monday afternoons 3:30-4:30 Group 2: Ages 9-12 Thursday afternoons 3:30-4:30 8 week session :: April 2-June 4 (no classes on 4/16 & 4/19) $120 (includes materials fee)at Second Chances in…
Art Camp!
I am so, so happy and honored to be leading a summer art workshop for parents and preschoolers at Spring Street Preschool in downtown Amherst, MA. The school is offering a month of Wednesday summer workshops where parents and children will have the chance to explore, create, and learn together. As described by Sam…
Beginnings
The beginning of a little egg project I will feature later in the week. I have some super exciting Red Bird Crafts news to share. In the late summer and early fall, I’ll be offering creative writing and crafting workshops for adults and kids in my home studio. I am so incredibly excited about this…
Beginnings
The beginning of a little egg project I will feature later in the week. I have some super exciting Red Bird Crafts news to share. In the late summer and early fall, I’ll be offering creative writing and crafting workshops for adults and kids in my home studio. I am so incredibly excited about this…
t o g e t h e r
Here are some Story Stones from the Play series that I spent much of July and August working on. There are many more little children and play things in the series, and I plan to slowly share them on the blog in the coming months. Recently, I was honored to be asked to sell my…
