February 6 2010
CLAY ROBOTS
Can you build your own Robot with copper wire and clay?
February 13 2010
ROBOT MURAL
How many different Robots can we fit in our Giant Mural?
February 20 2010
CYBORG YOUR FACE
Want to see what you could look like as half human, half robot?
February 27 2010
ROBOT COMIC DECOUPAGE
Can you use an awesome comic book scene as your background, and insert your own robot creation?
Artist in Residence: Carla Pelkey
Exploring with different kinds of leaves, visitors can create their own mandala, design or patterns. Each piece will be digitally photographed and incorporated into a large scale mandala.
Visit Carla's Website here
Joan will be creating a community canvas with visitors by making leaf impressions
with acrylic inks and paint on one shared canvas. Together with visitors, Joan will
be studying different types of plants, leaves and trees.
Visitors will be working in an Impressionist style, which means you see the
'likeness' of the leaf but it doesn't look exactly like the real thing. You still
have to use your imagination to fill in the details!
Here is Joan Bailey's website!
Saturday Morning Art Drop-in Schedule
October 17
Create Spatter Art with Elastic Energy
What is the science behind elastic energy? What kind of a simple machine
can we use to create our works of art?
Ages 5 and up
*Please be aware this is a messy activity!
October 24
Make your own Sundial!
Use art to tell time! We will be using air dry clay to create a real
working sundial!
Ages 5 and up
October 31
Spooktacular Halloween Event!
"Dia de los Muertos!" create your own folk art Doll and learn about
Halloween traditions in Mexico! 10am-12am
"Total Voice Makeover" work with our onsite Artist to record a Halloween
greeting in a spooky voice! 1-4pm
Watch for more Spookatcular Activites throughout the day!
Val Lawton will be starting her residency in the Artist Space October 10 - November 4:
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Val Lawton, Illustrator
Val Lawton’s favourite children’s books growing up were the great English stories
like Winnie-the-Pooh and Tim Goes to Sea. It was the scratchy pen and ink
illustrations that especially appealed to her as they left so much up to her
imagination.
Today, Val creates art for books in a similar free-wheeling
style. She also loves to experiment with this style of drawing and the old-fashioned
optical devices like flip-books, thaumatropes and zoetropes.
Val will be exploring some of these 19th century animation toys during the month of
October and invites children young and old to join her. She will have zoetrope on-hand, as well as supplies to create two-sided thaumatropes, and short flip-books.
Val’s is currently at work illustrating Where Does Your Cat Nap?, and will have some
of her work-in-progress at the Museum during the month of October. When she’s not
illustrating, Val’s teaching with the Learning Through the Arts program.
Learn more about Val !!
Books Illustrated:
Where Does Your Dog Sleep?, Nickel’s Worth Publishing, 2008
The GDA Diet: Shop Yourself Thin with Nigel Denby, Wiley & Sons/Capstone Publishing
(UK), 2008
Emily’s Magical Journey with Toothena the Tooth Fairy, Strategix Ltd., 2007
Raising Baby Green: The Earth Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Baby Care,
Jossey-Bass, 2007
Mr. Bert's Story Time, Scholastic Canada, 2006
A Blanket Full of Love, Starrytime Keepsakes, 2006
Dealing with Grief (Elizabeth Fry series, 2 of 4), Grassroots, 2006
Living with Stress (Elizabeth Fry series, 1 of 4), Grassroots, 2005
Stroke of Luck...not!, Detselig Press, 2005
Summer Fun, Harcourt Canada, 2004
Reading and Learning: a Handbook for Adults, Grassroots, 2003
Books Authored:
New York: The Empire State (a guide to American States series), Weigl, 2001
West Virginia: The Mountain State (a guide to American States series), Weigl, 2001
Ohio: The Buckeye State (a guide to American States series), Weigl, 2001
Space (FinditQuick series), Golden Books, 2000
Recreating Alberta with Reinvented Materials
Creative Kids are invited to Recreate Alberta using found materials!
Explore, glue, hammer, tape, paint and fold everyday materials to create
an interactive exhibit. Young Artists and their families will recreate
some of our great Alberta Landmarks and have a hand in creating the future
by designing and building their very own landmarks.
Join us at Creative Kids Museum! Workshop times are
11am -2pm Friday September 18, and
10am-1pm Saturday September 19.
Additional to all provincially owned historic sites and museums open for free during this period, if you walk around Calgary - our very own city is RICH in public art and art spaces!
Some examples of Alberta/Calgary Landmark...
Shaw Millennium Park.
- "North America's largest free outdoor, 24 hour skatepark located at 1220 9 Ave. S.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on the Westside of downtown (Southwest of the TELUS World of Science)"-City of Calgary.
Statue on 8th Avenue S.W., Calgary
Windmill at Fort Calgary
Pow Wow Teepee Village near Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta.
World's Largest Pyrogy - Glendon, Alberta
For more information on Alberta art days visit: - AlbertaArtDays.
