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Oloteria Plan V:

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oLoteria Plan V: A Virtual Night with Jim Ward and Calexico

Because we can’t all be together playing rounds of oLoteria at the oLo Gallery, we are bringing oLoteria: Plan V to you!  Join us virtually on Thursday, October 29th at 6:30 via ShinDig, with hosts Marina Monsisvais and Paul Ro.  Paul will guide the guests on an oLoteria signature cocktail. El Paso’s own Jim Ward will provide us with an evening of entertainment.  

With the purchase of your $175.00 ticket, you will receive a specially curated box featuring Tito’s, mixers, Twang rimming salts, signature oLoteria shaker and glasses, calavera candle, oLoteria game set and So El Paso chips + salsa, plus the access code to the event on the ShinDig platform.  Limited edition VIP boxes are also available with a special delivery by Ozzy from the El Paso Locomotives.

Don’t want to purchase the “oLoteria in a Box?” and want to attend the event only – tickets are available for $50.00.

100% of all the funds raised will benefit Creative Kids’ nationally recognized creative youth development programs.

Purchase your tickets here:  https://www.vancoevents.com/CDW

 

Resiliency Art Program

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Project RAP will be taught virtually via Zoom. Class time will provide a group instruction, as well art skills assistance and guidance. The goal is to introduce basic fundamental art skills through different art mediums, the use of proper art terminology and art practices. The support of a parent/guardian during each lesson is welcomed and encouraged. 

Registration is required and can be done on http://creativekidsart.org. Upon registration, you will receive instructions on picking up your art kit as well as other important class information that will include Zoom links and the program outline.

The support of a parent/guardian during each lesson is welcomed and encouraged.

Saturdays • 9am – 11am • via Zoom

Register Here!

At the end of every project, we ask every participant to share their completed artwork by taking a photograph (participant and their artwork). This can be sent to gabriela@creativekidsart.org. The work will be on display through our online gallery at makingartpossible.com. and through our social media channels. Use #makingartpossible #creativekids #RAP if you share on social media.

 

Art Classes on YouTube

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Learn from Creative Kids Teaching Artist Ana Aburto on how to create a landscape filled with the beautiful Franklin Mountain poppies. Poppies video.

 

Join Creative Kids Creative Director Stephen Ingle and Creative Kids students Avelina and Santino as they paint family members onto rocks. This project takes materials easily found around your home. All you need is flat rocks, acrylic paint, paint brushes and your imagination. Our Family our Rock video.

Join Creative Kids as we learn about Matisse and the art of simple line portraits. You will have fun creating your own muse masterpiece using organic and geometric shapes. While you are working, enjoy the background music provided by El Paso Pro-Musica where Zuill Bailey and Chris-Beroes-Haigus perform Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits. Matisse’s Muse video.

Join Creative Kids to create your own world by cutting paper and adding layers to make a beautiful outdoor landscape. A special thank you to El Paso Pro-Musica and Zuill Bailey for the soothing music accompanying this video. Landscape Cut paper video.

Join Creative Kids as we learn the art of printmaking using fruits, veggies and acrylic black paint. Enjoy the background music courtesy of El Paso Pro-Musica performing Sicilienne by Maria Von Paradis. Fruits and Vegetable Prints video.

Join Creative Kids Creative Director, Stephen Ingle who will guide you through creating a portrait. You will learn the fundamentals of generating a unique image of a person – exploring proportion, shape and how to mix paint to create various colors and shades to complete your painting. Enjoy the soothing music of “The Swan” performed by Chris Beroes-Haigis-Haigis on the cello and Camille Saint-Saens on the harp – courtesy of El Paso Pro-Musica. Portrait Video. Portrait  Lesson Download

Join Creative Kids where we explore how to make sculptures out of paper following a simple step-by-step process utilizing a template and outline to help make your beautiful creation. Enjoy the soothing music provided by El Paso Pro-Musica with Matt Herskowitz performing Chopin Op.10 No. 2, “El Montuno” on the piano. Paper Sculpture Video.

Join Creative Kids as you learn how to make tints and shades in an orchestrated layered mountain landscape. Enjoy the music provided by El Paso Pro-Musica where Yuliya Gorenman is on piano to help give you some inspiration while you create. Orchestrated Mountain Video.

Join Creative Kids to kick-off summer as we make a three-dimensional symmetry sun. We will explore the use of stencils, color and pattern with simple materials to create this gorgeous piece of art. Enjoy the background music provided by El Paso Pro-Musica with Yuliya Gorenman on the piano. Symmetry Suns video.

Creative Conversation on Instagram Live

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Tune in this week to Creative Conversation as we speak with JJ Childress, Community Manager of Microsoft TechSpark. We will be talking about technology in the time of rapid change. Show you support and join us on this Thursday at 11:30am on Instagram Live. 

Past Interviews

Thursday, April 23rd, 2020

Thursday, April 16th, 2020

oLo Gallery

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Creative Kids draws on several areas of strength from a track record of twelve years in successful project management, including the oversight of numerous federal, state and local grants, as well as private and corporate funds. Creative Kids recently retrofitted a 16,000 sq. ft warehouse space known as the OLO Gallery (Other Learning Opportunities). OLO is located in Union Plaza Arts District in Downtown El Paso, and is the permanent home to Creative Kids’ Art Studios, Cooking Facility, Art Gallery, Multimedia Skills Development Center and administrative offices.

 

 

 

Creative Kids Garners National Attention

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First Lady Michelle Obama presented the 2013 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award to El Paso’s Creative Kids Project AIM (Arts in Motion), a visual arts program for pediatric oncology patients will be recognized for its effectiveness in developing learning and life skills in young people by engaging them in the arts or humanities on Friday, November 22, 2013 at a ceremony at the White House East Room. The National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award is the highest national honor awarded to such programs. “We are honored for this program to be recognized by the White House, President and First Lady,” said Andrea Gates-Ingle who with her husband, Stephen Ingle, co-founded this program in 1999 at Providence Children’s Hospital. Project AIM has since expanded to include both children’s hospitals in El Paso, TX.

Miranda Luna, a participant in Project AIM, accompanied co-founder and Executive Director of Creative Kids, Andrea Gates-Ingle receive the award at the White House. In 2008, Miranda was a tender 10 years of age when she was delivered the news that she had Leukemia. Faced with a devastating diagnosis, Miranda immediately started treatment at Providence Children’s Hospital.  It was then when she was first introduced to the Creative Kids hospital art program – Project AIM.  Miranda gravitated towards the program and was always the first patient to be waiting for the art studio to be opened at the hospital. Whether it was painting, printmaking or dabbling in Photoshop and Illustrator, Miranda loved to be immersed in the art program as she said it helped to melt away her fear and anxiety of not knowing what the next day may bring.  Over the years, Miranda has transformed from a shy young lady into a confident, outspoken young woman who, six years later, still loves to be engaged in the Creative Kids art program. The ceremony also included a speech by 12-year-old Danashiya Pritchard, a “Creative Kid” and participant in Project AIM in El Paso, Texas. Project AIM reaches over 1,000 children battling cancer in two area hospitals, offering art-mediated therapy in painting on canvas, printmaking, and graphic arts, among other art forms. Over Project AIM’s fourteen-year history, more than 250 pieces of the patients’ artwork have been showcased in more than six venues in the El Paso area.

Through these programs, young people are discovering their creative voices, developing a stronger sense of who they are as individuals, and gaining a deeper understanding of the world around them,” wrote Mrs. Obama in the program for the award ceremony. “And, as young people navigate today’s challenges, the programs we are honoring offer safe harbors that cultivate enthusiasm for learning, support academic achievement, and promote college readiness.”

Creative Kids was one of twelve organizations chosen from a pool of more than 350 nominations and 50 finalists. The award also comes with a $10,000 grant. The awards are administered by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Congratulations Creative Kids!

For more information about the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards,
visit www.pcah.gov.