Instructor Lisa has been working with children in the outdoor classroom at Uspiritus' Bellewood Home for Children, painting and drawing for an upcoming mural. They also glazed clay for another fun project that is beginning to come together...
Special thanks to Art for Kosair Kids® through Kosair Charities and Fund for the Arts for their support of this essential art therapy program!
Art for Kosair Kids
Printmaking All Over
The kids at the Bellewood Home for Children have really loved printmaking! Instructor and ceramic artist Lisa Simon says they have done some wonderful monoprints and callographs and group printing. Her photos here show the kids doing group printmaking. They discovered that they also like to print on themselves!
Special thanks to Art for Kosair Kids® through Kosair Charities in partnership with Fund for the Arts for their generous support of this program!
Self-Portraits Inspired by Chuck Close
Open Doors instructor Katy showed high school students at JCPS Uspiritus-Brooklawn School various examples of Chuck Close’s paintings from his career. They had learned how to mix colors and different ways to use their brushes. They drew self-portraits, as they saw themselves, and were to make grids of approximately two-inch squares. They applied bright colors of their choice and utilized said technical skills they have learned. They used acrylic paint and graphite on 22x30 inch paper. They were allowed freedom to deviate if they chose.
Special thanks to Fund for the Arts' Arts for Kosair Kids® for their generous support of this project!
Beeutiful
Beeutiful art! Shared by the Bellewood School, our collaborators with Arts for Kosair Kids® in partnership with the Fund for the Arts. They say, "This is one kiddo’s hand art (a project taught to us by LVA). Students picked 4-5 words to describe themselves and although the projects aren’t quite finished- we already know the artists are 'beeutiful' 🐝🐝🐝"
Bellewood: Art Therapy
We have been working with Kosair Kids® through Kosair Charities and Fund for the Arts to bring an art therapy program with Bellewood Home for Children, who "have worked to nurture Kentucky's most vulnerable children."
This summer, students have been working with ceramic artist Lisa Simon on sensory elements for their outdoor classroom.
