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BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS*

BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS*

Learn about self-taught artists who use dreams, inner visions, imaginations, and music as motivation -- sculpting, painting, and building through the desire and need to create with whatever is nearby.  Artsist using scrap wood, old binder paper, dirt, bubblegum, and more will open your eyes to what’s around you.  Exercise creativity, self-expression, and imagination with these options:


Option 1:  Illustrate your own inner visions using chalk pastels on paper

 

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Option 2:  Create something from items in YOUR environment.  Using recyclable items found at home, office, school, outdoors, and wherever, make something new from old in the real sense.  Tap into your imagination and exercise your building and engineering skills at the same time.

 

Best for ages 5 years +
60-90 minutes 

 

Option 1: Oil or chalk pastels and construction paper (or watercolors and watercolor paper). These are provided for in-person workshops.

 

Option 2: Recyclables, containers, cartons, toilet paper tubes, egg cartons, masking and packing tape, etc.

 

BUILD A SERIES:
Black American Quilts 

Fantastic Trash

Japanese American Internment 

Southwest Native America

West Africa

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