The ocean of new faces surrounded me on the first day of art class, I asked if there was ever a time when they wanted to say something really important but felt they couldn’t? Hands shot up in the air. “Let’s talk about it” I responded, handing them their art supplies.” Here is your chance, you have a billboard to the world- and it is the size of a Saturn V Rocket!”

Visit The Dream Rocket Project.

Come try for a chance to take a piece of my photography off the wall! Playful images captured at the Botanical Gardens and during an adventure with Fresh Air Family (Greenvale Canoe trip). Don’t miss the party of the year and help Gateway help kids! https://www.gway.org/offthewall2010/

This will be the premier of reverendjohnson and THE MODERN SUN in the U.S.!! 7 p.m.

Gwyn’s Tale 
by Angela Ford

I led the cows to pasture, but then started across the field with nothing but my frayed overalls and my dinner.  I said goodbye to the freshly turned dirt, squelching under my bare feet and oozing between my toes. I said goodbye to the brown fields full of stubble and plants just beginning to grow, to the dew on blades of grass, the wide sky of promise and everything I had ever known. I didn’t know how I’d fare, but all the same I was going to the Forbidden Forest, never to be seen by anyone in my village again…  To read more please visit  www.angelaford.com 

Event:
Arts in Crisis Tour by Michael Kaiser

Painting with Poetry

http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/story/Hip-Hop-Learning/b-VuSBG3i0ivf-3K6hvsbA.cspx
Source: cbs42.com

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Noel Johnson (The White Oaks) volunteered his time and talent to collaborate with me on a special project I did with students during my art residency.

Beverley Tanner reported on the story- did you know I could rap? The 4th grade students at Powderly can bring it!

Thank you to the Birmingham City School System, The Cultural Alliance and The Community Foundation for providing this opportunity!

~Laurie Ann

Kids at Powderly Elementary are painting with poetry. Teachers are using hip hop as a means of teaching simile and metaphors. This is part of the Artist As Educators Initiative from the Cultural Alliance. To hear some of the rhymes watch the video clip.

Students from Powderly Elementary School got to participate in a new & unique learning experience this morning after participating in the Alabama Woodlands Discovery Field Trip. Artist Laurie Ann Kramer instructed the children in plein air painting, using the walkway facing the Dunn Formal Rose Garden as a backdrop, as a part of the Artists as Educators Program. The pilot program is made possible by and funded through partnerships between the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Birmingham City Schools and the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham.

 Most people (especially parents and grandparents) would agree that the most amazing things happen when you give children art supplies.  Can you imagine what would happen if you gave them art supplies in Math class? 

 Smiles of disbelief, and smiles of excitement , giddy grins of anticipation spread around room 107 like peanut butter as I unpacked the bags… Yes! I am an artist. Yes! We are going on a journey!  Smell these Sunflowers- carefully, they are for your teacher to keep- notice how the petals meet. Yes an artist painted the Sunflowers, his name was Van Gogh, have you ever seen a Starry Night? 

     to be continued….

The Artists as Educators Program is made possible through a working partnership between the Cultural Alliance, the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham and the Birmingham City School System. 

The Eleventh Annual Art by the Lake

An Art Show and Sale

Benefiting Hannah Home Shelby

A ministry of The King’s Ranch and Hannah Homes

More than 65 Artists featured…

Hot New Orleans Jazz by The

Legendary Pineapple Skinners

 Show Opens to the Public

12 noon - 5 p.m.

$25 minimum donation per person includes

 Catfish/Chicken Baskets lunch,

 desserts, beverages & coffees

 Patrons’ Sneak Preview Brunch

10 a.m. - 12 noon

featuring fresh, locally grown Alabama foods

$50 per person, includes brunch, entry to the show,

desserts, beverages & coffees

 Catfish/Chicken Baskets by

Whiskers

Beverages

Brunch and Gourmet Desserts

by Jefferson State

Culinary Hospitality Program

Specialty Coffees by Royal Cup

Deerwood Lake Harpersville Al. 35078