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Mobiles and Windchimes

Date: October 7, 2008, 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Program: Fall Afternoon Workshops 2008

Description

This session will specifically explore plastics and metals as materials for art making. Items readily found in homes and classrooms will be made into mobiles, wind chimes and whirly gigs.

Guest Artists

Joy Suarez has over twenty years experience as a teaching artist and educator.   After graduating from Florida State University with a degree in Anthropology, Joy moved to New York City, building a strong career designing and implementing programs and curricula for educational organizations including the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York City Housing Authority, New York City Department of Education, The Fashion Center, Children for Children and the Lower Eastside Girls Club. Joy has been Friends of Materials for the Arts' (FOMA) lead teaching artist designing and conducting workshops for art educators since 1995. Joy’s other full time passion is working with her partner Louie Miranda in Jerry Joy Music where together they co-write and co-produce studio recordings of their own brand of informational music that is for children and their families to grow with. Currently they have six CD recordings.  Louie performs their music nationwide.

Location

Materials for the Arts
33-00 Northern Blvd. 3rd Floor
Long Island City, NY 11101
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Sample creations from an MFTA Education Workshop
 
 
 
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