“Andrà tutto bene” means “everything will be alright” in Italian. When things are uncertain or scary, sometimes we use sayings like this to comfort one another. Right now, our friends in Italy, China, and across the globe are trying to deal with some scary problems. Even though these problems are …
Dear ASI Friends, In over 22 years of serving the community, ASI has never cancelled its programs and shut its office doors. Last week, Art Sphere Inc. ended our winter semester early at recreation center, library and school art programs and shut down our office hours. In keeping with the …
Being creative is an empowering act. To wear your creativity is fun and confidence boosting! Last week at Cione, the Artsphere students got to design their own t-shirts using colorful fabric markers. I gave them one incentive: cover up as much of the shirt as possible! Jayla, who is pictured …
This week’s lesson at Towey was quite interesting for me personally because it was mainly focused on fashion design and I was intrigued with how creative the students could really get. We started off by talking about how clothes are made with a variety of different types of fabric. As everyone …
A spin on traditional paper art this project was designed to give the students a hand at becoming their own clothing designer. Each child deserves to be who they choose to be and creating their own wearable art does just that. Towey has a wonderful group of children and they …
Amid the turbulent times in our world, even our youngest friends can benefit from lessons in mindfulness. Today, at the Lunchtime Literacy session at Fishtown Community Library, preschoolers learned about the emotionally calming effect of coloring intricate images. What makes you worry? Worrying is when you think about something too …
Before I talk about this week’s lesson at Towey, I just wanted to mention that Jess, who specializes in Art Therapy, has worked alongside Kristen & me. We started off class with some basic meditation and deep breathing exercises to calm our minds and relax our bodies. Next, we gave …
