One of the things I was really looking forward to doing once I came back to Minneapolis was to volunteer for Art Buddies. I had been a volunteer twice before I moved to London and it was a wonderful experience.
The fall session started at the end of October and this semester we have a new theme, which is all about animals.
Art Buddies was started back in 1994 by a wonderful woman called Sue Crolick, you can read her story about why she started it here. Sue and Steph Vagle are just incredible woman and are so wonderful.
Get involved:
There are lots of ways to participate and I'd be happy to talk to anyone who has questions about what it's like to be an Art Buddy.
Have a look at their website and they are also on Facebook and Twitter.
I'll be blogging about this session so look out for more posts :)
What is Art Buddies?
Art Buddies helps kids from low-income families discover their creative gifts while building confidence and big dreams.
The creative volunteers come from all sorts of exciting fields — including advertising, graphic and interior design, film production, commercial photography, illustration, public relations, web design and architecture.
At every program, creative volunteers work one-on-one with their child. The kids are amazed that they each get their own adult. One boy told us, “Art Buddies is cool, cuz you get your own person!”
The workshops last from 7 to 10 weeks, with 40 mentors helping 40 kids create something fanciful and unique. It might be a costume of a child’s future self, or a model of their dream city, or an image of themselves as “ruler of the world.”
No matter what the activity, the goal is always the same: to help the children believe in themselves and expand their vision of who they can become.
Art Buddies ends with the kids posing for professional photographers and showing off their creations in an exciting parade and performance.
Since its beginning in 1994, Art Buddies has paired over 1,800 children with over 1,800 creative people. In the fall of 2011, we doubled the number of kids we serve to 160 per year.
They believe in the power of creativity and one-on-one attention to change children’s lives.
The fall session started at the end of October and this semester we have a new theme, which is all about animals.
We're helping the kids imagine themselves as powerful and important by identifying with the positive characteristics
of animals.
The kids choose an animal that represents something they’re
good at, then we work to create a fanciful animal costume together.
Art Buddies was started back in 1994 by a wonderful woman called Sue Crolick, you can read her story about why she started it here. Sue and Steph Vagle are just incredible woman and are so wonderful.
Get involved:
There are lots of ways to participate and I'd be happy to talk to anyone who has questions about what it's like to be an Art Buddy.
Have a look at their website and they are also on Facebook and Twitter.
I'll be blogging about this session so look out for more posts :)
What is Art Buddies?
Art Buddies helps kids from low-income families discover their creative gifts while building confidence and big dreams.
The creative volunteers come from all sorts of exciting fields — including advertising, graphic and interior design, film production, commercial photography, illustration, public relations, web design and architecture.
At every program, creative volunteers work one-on-one with their child. The kids are amazed that they each get their own adult. One boy told us, “Art Buddies is cool, cuz you get your own person!”
The workshops last from 7 to 10 weeks, with 40 mentors helping 40 kids create something fanciful and unique. It might be a costume of a child’s future self, or a model of their dream city, or an image of themselves as “ruler of the world.”
No matter what the activity, the goal is always the same: to help the children believe in themselves and expand their vision of who they can become.
Art Buddies ends with the kids posing for professional photographers and showing off their creations in an exciting parade and performance.
Since its beginning in 1994, Art Buddies has paired over 1,800 children with over 1,800 creative people. In the fall of 2011, we doubled the number of kids we serve to 160 per year.
They believe in the power of creativity and one-on-one attention to change children’s lives.
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