The 21st Lake Worth Street Painting Festival was a great success this year! Hundreds of artists created live chalk murals on the streets of Downtown Lake Worth, Florida Feb 21st-22nd sharing their passion & expression on the pavement. Here is my worked titled “Joy”, also featured in the Huffington Post article below:
My young art students have been working hard creating a bottle cap mural collaboration for a special installation this spring! We have collected bins of recycled plastic caps and color coded them accordingly, working together to create our design plan. We are currently attaching our caps onto plywood sheets and plan to showcase our finished work at the local Pompano Beach Whole Foods Market for Earth Month this April! It will be very exciting to see our work in a public venue to show off our beautiful finished masterpiece. More pics to come!
Mark your calendars this month for the 21st annual Lake Worth Street Painting Festival! Looking forward to working on my 10 x 10 ft work of art
http://www.streetpaintingfestivalinc.org/index.php/about
Saturday’s Biz Art event in Coral Springs was a great success! I met so many kind people and enthusiastic kids of all ages! I created a brightly colored mockingbird for the literary theme of “To Kill a Mockingbird” selected by the Coral Springs Museum of Art.
I will be a featured street painter with the Coral Springs Museum of art this Saturday at Coral Springs Biz Art!
http://www.coralsprings.org/bizart/
Street painting event
Digital painting
FALL EVENT CALENDAR!
CHALK FEST 2014
October 10-12th was Marietta, Georgia’s 4th annual Chalk Fest, a beautiful street painting festival featuring many talented chalk artists from around the country.
Chalkfest 2014
BROWARD 100 Kick-off Party
On October 16th, 2014 downtown Fort Lauderdale hosted the kick-off party for the Broward 100 Project-a centenniel celebration honoring the history of our region through the performance & visual arts! I created chalk mural with ArtServe, Ft. Lauderdale from 5-8pm on Las Olas Blvd across from the Museum of Art near the FAU campus. http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/sf-lauderdale-broward-100-block-party-20141015,0,2105088.story
http://www.broward.org/broward100/Pages/default.aspx
Color the City Lighthouse Point
On October 19th, 2014 the Lighthouse Point Cultural Arts committee held our first “Color the City” fence weaving event, beautifying the city through public art workshops. I directed this one day collaboration with kids ages 7-14 in weaving vinyl strips of color into public park fences to beautify our local park! It was a unique, fun family event for the community to enjoy-just in time for the November 1st concert in the park event!
Offerdahl’s Gridiron Grill-off 2014
November 8th, 2014 is the Gridiron Grill-Off Event at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre. A food, wine & tailgate festival presented by the Taste of the NFL featuring music, celebrity chefs & entertainment throughout the day. What does this have to do with art? I was asked along with a few other local artists to paint a Jack Daniels statue to auction off for charity. Proceeds of the purchased statues benefit John Offerdahl’s Hand Off Foundation, Feeding the Needs of Kids in Crisis.
From the 2013 artist auction for charity
http://gridirongriller.com/home/
BaCA Limelight Event Novemeber 19th
Wednesday evening, Nov 19th Old Pompanos newly renovated art space BACA will hold its monthly art exhibit. I will be creating & directing a large chalk mural collaboration with several of my art students from 4:00 onward! Come out and see some live art while enjoying music, food & entertainment in Pompano’s new revitalized art spot 🙂
bacapompano.org
The city of Lighthouse Point is getting some new public art this summer, thanks to our first City Summer Art Camp that ran June 9-13th, 2014. 26 kids kids ranging from ages 6-13 dove into bins of colorful tiles, designing personal mosaic creations and park benches for the city. We owe a HUGE thanks to local businesses Tiles of Pompano, D & B Tile, & Budget Tile for their generous contributions to our summer camp!
I first had the kids experiment with the “direct method” of mosaic making by gluing right onto 4×4″ tiles and grouting. (Wearing gloves of course, the fun part)
We proceeded to mosaic a larger piece to enter into Pompano Beach ArtHall’s student exhibit in August. By day 3 we were onto our bench designs, working in teams at our tables in groups of 5 or 6. I explained the “indirect method”” of mosaic making by laying out a cardboard template the exact dimensions of the bench backs, and having them plan and lay down the tiled design. Next, we carefully transfered the pieces onto 6″ sections of sticky contact paper by pressing them over each section of the design. I slathered on thinset cement carefully and had the kids press their contact sheets of tiles into the mortar until the bench was filled and they dried overnight.
Some groups created a mosaic of random colors & tiles, others an underwater scene, a lighthouse & a fish. The boys helped me stir up the grout outside after the tiles had dried in their bed of cement and we smoothed and sponged off the excess grout to fill in all the gaps. We even had a local reporter stop by to see our creations on the last day of camp! The kids had a blast & did some amazing artwork they will remember forever!
The following week I returned to sand the edges, seal the grout and prep all the benches for their public installation. I will post pics of the installed benches as they go up at Dan Witt park & other local spots in the city.
More city art projects to come! Great job artists!
mosaic trash bin at Dixon Ahl Hall, Lighthouse Point
ArtServe Fort Lauderdale hosted an “Art as Healing Therapy” exhibit Thursday evening to showcase art as a medium of healing in the community. It was a successful event showcasing 2 & 3D media, including my entry below, “Lead Me Into Spring”, acrylic on canvas.
ArtServe
Hello everyone! If you are looking to send your kids to art camp this summer, here is my teaching schedule:
June 9-13th 3:00-5:00pm
Lighthouse Point City Art Camp: Painting & Mosaic
Location: Dixon Ahl Rec Center, Lighthouse Point
(Ages 8-13, $100 per child for the week, supplies included)
contact me at [email protected] to reserve your spot
June 16-July 4th
Coral Springs Museum of Art: Sculpture am/pm sessions
http://coralspringsmuseum.org/carrie-bennett/
contact Coral Springs Museum of Art to register your child