ARTS FOR ALL
Sponsored by Target, Baylor University, Smart Start, Work Force Solutions Childcare Services, Education Service Center Region 12, Brewer Educational Resources, Waco Transit, Talitha Koum Nurture Institute, Baylor University Piper Center for Family Studies and Child Development, McLennan Community College Early Childhood Development Center, and Waco ISD Early Childhood Development Center.
Bubbles!
What’s more fun than Bubbles? The Mayborn Museum will once again be presenting Bubbles! Museum staff will be in the grass near the river making giant bubbles – some as big as 5 feet long and around 2 feet in diameter! Visitors will be able to blow their own bubbles with different size wands and dance through bubbles created by a bubble machine. This activity is in honor of Sarah Shepherd Levine.
What’s more fun than Bubbles? The Mayborn Museum will once again be presenting Bubbles! Museum staff will be in the grass near the river making giant bubbles – some as big as 5 feet long and around 2 feet in diameter! Visitors will be able to blow their own bubbles with different size wands and dance through bubbles created by a bubble machine. This activity is in honor of Sarah Shepherd Levine.
Behind the Mask
Paint a mask with Rhonda Reiman, and Midway Middle School and their army of volunteers. "Behind the Mask" - masks encourage us to transform ourselves, and empower us to do so. They permit us to replace one reality with another. They can ultimately provide us with a better understanding of who we really are behind the masks we put on every morning to face the world, and take off every night in our dreams.
Paint a mask with Rhonda Reiman, and Midway Middle School and their army of volunteers. "Behind the Mask" - masks encourage us to transform ourselves, and empower us to do so. They permit us to replace one reality with another. They can ultimately provide us with a better understanding of who we really are behind the masks we put on every morning to face the world, and take off every night in our dreams.
Wood Sculpture
Create and paint your wood sculpture with Robbie Barber, Professor of Sculpture at Baylor University and students from the Baylor Sculpture Department. Take your inspiration from newly installed Waco Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition around the Convention Center and City Hall.
Create and paint your wood sculpture with Robbie Barber, Professor of Sculpture at Baylor University and students from the Baylor Sculpture Department. Take your inspiration from newly installed Waco Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition around the Convention Center and City Hall.
Claymation
A ball of self-hardening Mexican Red Clay, eager hands, and a desire to explore--that is all you need to begin to create clay sculpture. Join Suzanne Baldon, Cheri Smith, Heather Hughes, and University High School student volunteers at Claymation.
A ball of self-hardening Mexican Red Clay, eager hands, and a desire to explore--that is all you need to begin to create clay sculpture. Join Suzanne Baldon, Cheri Smith, Heather Hughes, and University High School student volunteers at Claymation.
The Clay Potters
Watch the duelling potters, Susan Kennedy, Niko Weissenberger and Paul McCoy get their hands dirty as they spin clay into finished pieces throughout the festival. Artist Paul McCoy, Professor of Ceramics at Baylor University, explains, "The artistic process is, by definition, a qualitative process which combined with our human capacity for quantitative problem-solving, makes us whole and capable of discernment at a level not possible in the absence of one or the other."
Watch the duelling potters, Susan Kennedy, Niko Weissenberger and Paul McCoy get their hands dirty as they spin clay into finished pieces throughout the festival. Artist Paul McCoy, Professor of Ceramics at Baylor University, explains, "The artistic process is, by definition, a qualitative process which combined with our human capacity for quantitative problem-solving, makes us whole and capable of discernment at a level not possible in the absence of one or the other."
Easel Art
Revel in the Colors! It’s time to bring out the artist in you. Paint your blank cardboard canvas thanks to the wonderful folks at Central Texas Corrugated, Inc. You can take home your masterpiece.
Revel in the Colors! It’s time to bring out the artist in you. Paint your blank cardboard canvas thanks to the wonderful folks at Central Texas Corrugated, Inc. You can take home your masterpiece.
Paper Sculpture
Let your imagination run wild as you engineer paper into 3-dimensional headgear with Mandy Marshall and Katie White.
Let your imagination run wild as you engineer paper into 3-dimensional headgear with Mandy Marshall and Katie White.
Facinations
Face Painting Transforms! Face Painting Entertains! Face painting is Magical! Harold Alexander, Alexander Designs, Mark White and volunteers from the Central Texas Metropolitan Community Church will create fascinating faces.
Face Painting Transforms! Face Painting Entertains! Face painting is Magical! Harold Alexander, Alexander Designs, Mark White and volunteers from the Central Texas Metropolitan Community Church will create fascinating faces.
Book-Mark-It
At the Waco Calligraphy Guild booth, participants will have the opportunity to stamp a design, add ribbons and beads and then the calligrapher will letter their name on the bookmark.
At the Waco Calligraphy Guild booth, participants will have the opportunity to stamp a design, add ribbons and beads and then the calligrapher will letter their name on the bookmark.
Squish, Glob, Splat (Art and Sensory)
Most children naturally want to be involved in the messy, oooey –gooey highly visible experience of using paint, but did you know that not only are they learning about color and how to manipulate a variety of other media through their exploration, they are also developing large and small motor skills necessary for brain development? Children will not only use their creative abilities but will also develop insight into how they see their world and can then show others through self expression in individual and unique ways. They achieve great emotional satisfaction through these creative experiences that promote self-esteem and a sense of wonder.
Activities: 1) Make your own playdough to take home; play-dough area for children to use 2) Gadget and texture painting: painting of the structure from construction area 3) Make your own Gak to take home; gak in the sensory tables** Recipes will be provided
Most children naturally want to be involved in the messy, oooey –gooey highly visible experience of using paint, but did you know that not only are they learning about color and how to manipulate a variety of other media through their exploration, they are also developing large and small motor skills necessary for brain development? Children will not only use their creative abilities but will also develop insight into how they see their world and can then show others through self expression in individual and unique ways. They achieve great emotional satisfaction through these creative experiences that promote self-esteem and a sense of wonder.
Activities: 1) Make your own playdough to take home; play-dough area for children to use 2) Gadget and texture painting: painting of the structure from construction area 3) Make your own Gak to take home; gak in the sensory tables** Recipes will be provided
Caterpillar Walk (Decision Making and Construction)
Our caterpillar needs a new coat, lots of “Stuff” to choose from to create a colorful new coat for our large caterpillar sculpture.
Our caterpillar needs a new coat, lots of “Stuff” to choose from to create a colorful new coat for our large caterpillar sculpture.
Puppets
From a paper bag, scraps of fabric and other fun stuff make a puppet. Total engagement in the project and what is more, continual problem solving as children put the puppets together.
From a paper bag, scraps of fabric and other fun stuff make a puppet. Total engagement in the project and what is more, continual problem solving as children put the puppets together.
Puzzle Pieces
Waco Cultural Arts Fest is proud to support Autism in Action. Help us send children with Autism to Summer Camp. Make $1 minimum donation and create your unique puzzle piece to add to our “It’s a Puzzle” canvas.
Waco Cultural Arts Fest is proud to support Autism in Action. Help us send children with Autism to Summer Camp. Make $1 minimum donation and create your unique puzzle piece to add to our “It’s a Puzzle” canvas.
Muralistas
The Muralistas will demonstrate the art of graffiti with free-flowing typeforms, vibrant murals and creative characters.
The Muralistas will demonstrate the art of graffiti with free-flowing typeforms, vibrant murals and creative characters.
Wiggle, Waggle, Snuggle (Movement and Literacy)
Language naturally flows from the experience of music and movement.The three go hand in hand in the developing child who is stockpiling vocabulary at an enormous speed in the first three years of life. Children who are ready to, who are exposed to a variety of literacy opportunities and who are encouraged to “act out” the stories they hear receive invaluable benefits that will build on language skills both spoken and written.Puppets, costumes, and other props enhance the theme of the books and stories that children love to read.
Activities:
1) Each child will receive a VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR book while supplies last and there will be storytelling. 2) Costumes and dramatic play props for movement and acting 3 )Soft spaces for reading
Language naturally flows from the experience of music and movement.The three go hand in hand in the developing child who is stockpiling vocabulary at an enormous speed in the first three years of life. Children who are ready to, who are exposed to a variety of literacy opportunities and who are encouraged to “act out” the stories they hear receive invaluable benefits that will build on language skills both spoken and written.Puppets, costumes, and other props enhance the theme of the books and stories that children love to read.
Activities:
1) Each child will receive a VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR book while supplies last and there will be storytelling. 2) Costumes and dramatic play props for movement and acting 3 )Soft spaces for reading
BlockFest - Stick, Stack, Stump (Woodworking and Construction)
When children participate in Construction activities they have many avenues for creativity as well as opportunities to refine perceptual and motor skills, problem solve and strategize to find solutions, increase their visual and spatial awareness, sharpen manual dexterity and even develop pre-reading and pre-math skills. You might think children are just playing, but actually, they are delving into design and construction techniques from a child’s perspective.
When children participate in Construction activities they have many avenues for creativity as well as opportunities to refine perceptual and motor skills, problem solve and strategize to find solutions, increase their visual and spatial awareness, sharpen manual dexterity and even develop pre-reading and pre-math skills. You might think children are just playing, but actually, they are delving into design and construction techniques from a child’s perspective.
Art Beans
The Talitha Koum Nurture Institute brings ART BEANS to the festival. Beans of all shapes, colors and sizes act as the color or “paint” and a young child’s imagination brings them to form and meaning. Participants receive a take-home keeper that says, “Bean there, done Art!”
The Talitha Koum Nurture Institute brings ART BEANS to the festival. Beans of all shapes, colors and sizes act as the color or “paint” and a young child’s imagination brings them to form and meaning. Participants receive a take-home keeper that says, “Bean there, done Art!”
Life's Better Outside Experience
Try your hand at archery, casting, rock climbing and more. Take the Outdoor Kids Challenge for a chance to win a complete camping gear package! Activities include: archery, rock-climbing walls, camping basics, state parks, Texas Outdoor Family Program, operation game, thief game wardens - Who Dunnit?, backyard bass, “Take Me Fishing” trailer, mystery boxes, sea senses, drawing tables, and habitat puzzles.
Try your hand at archery, casting, rock climbing and more. Take the Outdoor Kids Challenge for a chance to win a complete camping gear package! Activities include: archery, rock-climbing walls, camping basics, state parks, Texas Outdoor Family Program, operation game, thief game wardens - Who Dunnit?, backyard bass, “Take Me Fishing” trailer, mystery boxes, sea senses, drawing tables, and habitat puzzles.