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Arts For All |
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Support the Arts in our Community and Volunteer
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“Arts For All” hands-on arts activities are coordinated by
artists, art teachers and college and university art
departments. All arts materials are free for everyone who
attends the festival. Activities include pottery, painting,
clay sculpture, paper sculpture, wood sculpture, and a
variety of other special arts activities which vary from
year to year. Each activity provides a rich learning
experience for children of all ages and generates a
tremendous amount of excitement and encouragement for kids,
parents, volunteers, organizers, and sponsors throughout the
event. In 2004, over 3,000 paintings were made by
participants and the 2005 festival t-shirt design was based
on one of these paintings by a child artist. |
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Wood Sculpture |
Yes,
they have been collecting the wood shapes all year! Create
and paint your wood sculpture with Robbie Barber,
Professor of Sculpture, Baylor University and students from
Baylor University Sculpture Department. Take your
inspiration from newly installed Waco Outdoor Sculpture
Exhibition around the Convention Center and City Hall. |
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Paper Sculpture |
Let
your imagination run wild as you engineer paper into
3-dimensional forms. Helen Kwaitkowski from Mary
Hardin Baylor University Arts Department brings this
workshop to the festival through volunteer leader Kim
Olsen. |
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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. and
McLennan Community College Art Department.
Beverly Balshaw Midway Middle School and junior
volunteers will be there to help. You can take home your
masterpiece. Everyone tries their hand at ‘Easel Art” says
Beverly Balshaw “ Last year children saw Mom and Dad,
Grandparents doing the same problem solving as they were to
create their picture. The festival stimulates whole families
to become involved in the arts. It is a chance for kids to
work along side their parents on art projects.” |
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Faces and Masks |
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Paint a mask or have your face painted with Harold
Alexander, Rhonda Heckel, China Spring High
School Art Club 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. |
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Pictographs with MCYC |
Grab a bright piece of chalk, see examples of Native American
petroglyphs and pictographs, and then create your own to
take home! Then add your pictographs to a group canvas.
Shamira Jones, MCYC’s YouthArts Coordinator, leads this
multicultural arts activity with MCYC volunteers. |
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Claymation |
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Join art teacher Heather Hughs and create your own creatures
with self-hardening Mexican Red Clay. University High School
volunteers will be on staff to assist. |
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Art Beans with Talitha Koum Institute
(age 6 and younger) |
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. A take-home keeper that
says, “Bean there, done Art!” |
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Paper Bag Puppets with Valley Mills
Elementary School |
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” says Dr. Ann Mowery, Principle of Valley Mills
Elementary School who will be on “hand” with other
volunteer Valley Mills teachers. |
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Sad Face Happy Face |
 AVANCE Waco is a free nine-month, community based program
for low income families with children ages 0-3 yrs. It
strengthens families through education. Toy Instruction –
how to construct educational toys for your children from
materials found in the home. This toy helps parents to teach
numbers, cause and effect, colors, emotions, motor skills,
social skills, and textures. |
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Demonstrating Artists |
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Demonstrating Artists: This is your opportunity to watch and
ask questions as artists demonstrate their art. Seek out
additional demonstrations in the artist marketplace. |
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Clay Potters Potting |
Potters
- Paul McCoy, Mike Maguire, Jared Himstedt,
Dave Zdrazil and John LewisWhen asked why the arts
experiences are important within the context of an arts
festival...”I feel it's critical, especially at this moment
in our society's development, to not only expose people both
young and old to the arts in a personal way, but in so doing
to establish some level of personal connection with that
creative force within each of us, because it is through our
unique creative abilities that we are able to truly
contribute, individually and collectively, to the positive
development of our individual lives and to society and the
manner in which our society interacts and contributes to the
global community. 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. It is the combination and development of these
two critical components of the human animal which determine
whether our life decisions bear fruit or die on the vine. We
don't have to look far at all to see the results of
problem-solving accomplished without the benefit of that
qualitative, or creative, element. It's a lot like watching
a losing team continue on a losing streak by making the same
mistakes over and over again.”
Paul McCoy, Professor of Ceramics, Baylor University. |
| Plein Air Artists |
Rock
Kelley, Linda Easter and members of the
Central Texas Watercolor Society are located in the
Artist Marketplace. Interact with these artists as they
create new masterpiece paintings before your eyes. Talk with
artists and learn how more about how to turn ideas into
inspired creations. Paints will also be available for
purchase directly from each artists. |
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Meet Rolando Saenz, Sculptor |
Watch
Wacoan Rolando Saenz give a demonstration of rock
hammer and chiseling as he begins a new sculptural piece.
Rolando's sculpture "Blood Feather” was one of several
exhibits in the Waco National Sculpture Exhibition 2005. |
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