Projected Projects Calendar 2011

 

  JANUARY – Calendars/collage, stamping, writing

  

  FEBRUARY – Message Boards to promote good neighbor notes

  

  MARCH – Name lanyards (name tags)

 

  APRIL –  Painted Butterfly project and Petal Poetry

 

  MAY – Felt Flower Pins – hand sewing! 

 

  JUNE– Fathers Day: DADA ties using fiber collage

 

  JULY– Flag paper weaving

 

  AUGUST- Sand painting, story telling

 

  SEPTEMBER– Abstract Art and Creative Writing/share a life lesson 

 

  OCTOBER-Masks

 

  NOVEMBER- Card and Wreath making 

  DECEMBER –  Mobiles and gift wrapping

Ellen Clark

Ellen Clark is a folk artist who has won many awards at art festivals and sold her work through Disney and Timothy’s Gallery in Winter Park. Until recently, she was teaching art in a private elementary school but now officially retired, she is enjoying working with seniors.

 

Clark spent several years writing for the DeLand Sun News before it closed up. She also brings special understanding and talents to the program after working in nursing homes, the emergency ward and the health department before turning to art in the schools.   

She tells humorous stories about the many animals on her horse ranch and her weekend trips in a kayak which open doors to many memories and conversations with the playmates.

Mary McBride

Mary McBride has a BA from Stetson University in art with minors in art history, English and Gender Studies. She taught art to elementary students while her three sons attended school (when there weren’t art programs).

She taught art during the summer for the Parks & Recreation Department and DeLand Museum of Art while studying for her degree. Mary also worked with the elderly  in a ceramics program at a local studio. She was community programs manager for Atlantic Center for the Arts for eight years and coordinated 130 volunteers before retiring. Now she works with three local art groups providing her services as curator for their galleries.

Mary founded ArtsEtc surface design group for surface design artists back in 2004, is an active member with the Pioneer Fiber Arts Guild out of Barberville, and is the Florida representative of 100 artists for the international Studio Art Quilts Associates.

Mary working with children in an art tent

Statement:

I have always drawn, painted, written short stories and poetry. A dyslexic speller, I chose to get my degree in art but with the birth of the computer spell check, I was also able to minor in English without embarrassment. Although I enjoy making art and writing, I have found my biggest joy comes from helping other people discover the creative arts and I love to see the light come on in their eyes as they gain skills.

Karen Kershaw

Karen Kershaw – 121 East Marion Av. Edgewater, Fl. 32132 386-409-2475 email: gokk88@aol.com Registered Nurse Karen Kershaw discovered her inner artistic tendencies as author, artist and entrepreneur through community outreach art programs seven years ago.

Although she sketched, read aloud dramatically, and told big stories when she was a child, her art really started in poetry writing and expanded into multi-media exploration in more recent years. A compulsive hoarder of oddities, Karen discovered why she was keeping all that stuff in boxes and bins around her house: it became her art. If it can be penned out, hammered down, glued and painted, propped up or laid out to tell a story, Karen’s inspired to do it.

Artist Statement:
As a multi-media artist and poet, with bins of tin, piles of pictures, bulbs and buttons, jars of trinkets, and snippets of ideas, I ink it, glue it, polyurethane it and hammer it together to tell a story. I enjoy entertaining myself and the side-effect is that I also get to entertain the world. I feel Art with Laughter is the best medicine.