Easel Art |
Wood Sculpture |
Paper Sculpture |
Stone Soup (new) |
Paint your own unique creation on blank cardboard canvas thanks to the wonderful folks at Central Texas Corrugated, Inc. and McLennan Community College Art Department.
Arts teachers Beverly Balshaw, Amy Williams and junior volunteers will be there to help. “The festival stimulates whole families to become involved in the arts," says Beverly Balshaw. "It is a chance for kids to work along side their parents on art projects.”
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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. |
Let your imagination run wild as you engineer paper into 3-dimensional forms with Helen Kwaitkowski from Mary Hardin from Baylor University Arts Department and art teacher Heather Hughes, with her student volunteers from University High School. |
Who says art has to be a solitary game? Join local artist Laura F. Walton in creating a collaborative steel-and-assemblage sculpture right here at Waco Cultural Arts Fest. We'll supply materials, but you're welcome to bring old hubcaps (found or modified--use your imagination!) to add to the sculpture. This activity is recommended for ages 14 and up-- adults welcome, too
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Claymation |
Sand Art & Pictographs |
Art Beans |
Puppets |
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 art educators and student volunteers from Art Center Waco and at Claymation. |
Grab a bright piece of chalk, see examples of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs, and then create your own to take home! Shamira Jones, McLennan Community College, Upward Bound, leads this multicultural arts activity with student volunteers.
Try your hand at sand 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. A take-home keeper that says, “Bean there, done Art!” |
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 Stephanie Schattschneider, Crawford ISD who will be on “hand” with other volunteers. |
Behind the Mask |
The Clay Potters |
Plein Air Artists |
Meet Rolando Saenz, Sculptor |
Paint a mask with Rhonda Heckel, and 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. |
Watch the experts get their hands dirty as they spin clay into finished pieces throughout the festival. As 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."
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Rock Kelley and members of the Central Texas Watercolor Society. 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. |
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 and is now part of the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce permanent collection at Heritage Square. |
Face Painting |
Alice in Wonderland |
Katie Croft Watercolor |
Weathergrams |
Harold Alexander, Alexander Designs and volunteers from the Central Texas Metropolitan Community Church will create fascinating faces. |
Janys Frazier
Sculpture in MiniatureArtist Cameo Appearance
Saturday 20th Sept
3pm - 5pm
Scott & White Tent
An international miniaturist commissioned Janys to create the figures for 5 scenes, to be purchased by the Miniatures Museum of Taiwan. Originally, she sculpted 25 figures, including 5 of Alice, for the Alice in Wonderland tree scene. This was followed by 27 figures for Gulliver’s Travels, Cinderella, Snow White, and Jack in the Beanstalk. All of these figures can be seen in the Museum, as well as on the Museum’s web site. |
Katie Croft Watercolor Artist Cameo Appearance
Sunday 21st Sept
2pm - 5pm
Scott & White Tent
Influenced by Chinese watercolor work. Artist Katie Croft will use a watercolor technique with masking fluid, salt and spray water bottles to move the color on the page using brushes, gravity while blowing on the canvas. The technique is fun and easy to master. |
Members of the Waco Calligraphy Guild will help attendees to make their own weathergrams.
Weathergrams means "weather writing"--notations by sun, wind, rain and possibly ice. They are left to weather and wither like old leaves. According to Asian tradition, when the papers flutter in the breeze, the motion is meant for one to praise and observe nature and life around us. Weathergrams are written on biodegradable brown craft paper the size of a bookmark and hung in gardens during either the solstice and equinox or the opposite. This tradition comes from found translations of Far Eastern poetry and haiku. Weathergrams are given away, never sold. They have very few verbs and a special layout starting with a red letter followed by black lettering. |
