Mural in the Making
Excited to share a peek into our mural making process, creating with 118 youth, start to finish!
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A Rainbow Celebration!
Over the weekend a sweet + adorable HANDMAKERY friend turned the magical age of five! We were thankful (and of course SO excited) to have the opportunity to celebrate with this little one, her friends, and her family! She loves rainbows and made a wish to have “rainbow” as her birthday theme. She made a second wish to celebrate turning five at HANDMAKERY: A Children’s Art Studio located in beautiful Carbondale | CO! We were honored and decided to celebrate her special day with mixing up magical + rainbow play dough!
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Magical Mask Making
Exploring {hands-on + mixed-media + sculpture + mask making} in just four days together from 9AM to noon in our MAGICAL MASK MAKING workshop, each 6 – 9 year old artist created a magical dragon mask! Each artist was super excited to take home their 3-D sculpture just before the July 4th festivities got underway! We were thrilled to create eleven of these 3-D sculptures primarily out of recycled + reclaimed + re-used goods. The interior of each sculpture housed a handcrafted, plaster, facial mask. Take a peek below!
This week we are excited to announce we’ll be at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado instructing Carve Away- An Exploration of Linocuts + Block Printing! Read more!
On July 31 + August 14 HANDMAKERY: A Children’s Art Studio will be hosting two more CRAFT NIGHTS: Under the Stars + In the Studio for children ages 6 – 9 years of age from 5:30 – 7:30PM! These special nights are filling fast! June’s CRAFT NIGHT was a huge success! Enroll today while spaces are still available, last month our special event sold out!
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CREATURES BIG + small
A few highlights from our half-day/9AM – noon workshop, CREATURES BIG + small, creating with 6 – 9 year olds in our art studio located in Carbondale, CO!
UPCOMING SUMMER + SCHOOL YEAR ART WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN:
We still have {just a few spaces} in our workshops: CRAFT NIGHT(S): UNDER THE STARS + IN THE STUDIO (one special evening/each summer month + starting this Thursday!!!), MAGICAL MASK MAKING (starting this Monday!!!), CARVE AWAY! AN EXPLORATION OF LINOCUTS + BLOCK PRINTING (on location at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO), BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER (on location at the Roaring Fork Club in Basalt, CO) and in our 2014/15 SCHOOL YEAR {mixed-media} ART WORKSHOPS (6weeks/Thursday/4 – 5:30PM) 1. HANDMADE LITTLE ENTREPRENEUR 2. HANDMAKERY FROM THE HEART 3. HANDMADE WITH LOVE 4. SPRING IS IN THE AIRTIST but spaces are quickly filling! Enroll today by visiting our studio at www.handmakery.com to checkout our workshop brochure + schedule!
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Outdoor Art Studio
A peek at creating in our outdoor art studio at May’s First Friday in historic downtown Carbondale | CO! HANDMAKERY: A Children’s Art Studio had the opportunity be a sponsor at the Family Block Party for a second year! The Family Block Party is an annual event that includes a fabulous live band, beautiful face painting, exciting carnival games + a bounce house, arts + crafts {with us}, sweet adoptable pets looking for a forever home, a silent auction full of amazing giveaways, food + drink hosted by The Village Smithy Restaurant and more! Funds benefit Colorado Animal Rescue, Children’s Rocky Mountain Preschool and Carbondale Recreation! This night wouldn’t be possible without all the fabulous organizers, volunteers, local businesses, community sponsors + supporters and all the MANY families + friends that attended the 4-8PM celebration of moving into spring!
Happy 1st Birthday HANDMAKERY, so wonderful that SO many amazing HANDMAKERY artists + volunteers joined us for an action packed evening! Last year we made our debut at Family Block Party 2013, which was another incredible night of celebration and art-making with children!
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cakes + castles + crowns
HANDMAKERY: A Children’s Art Studio and Two+Two, both locally owned businesses in beautiful Carbondale | CO, partnered together to create a magical birthday celebration with the theme, cakes + castles + crowns! It was the perfect pairing for celebrating Perrin’s 4th birthday! Perrin is the daughter of Two+Two’s co-owner, Juliet Jone
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Creative Seeds Have Sprouted!
We are excited to announce our grassy lawn has just sprouted up INSIDE our art studio! Creative seeds have sprouted and spring has sprung! We’ve been patiently waiting and today it is finally here! A plush + luscious 10′ x 15′ indoor space to collaborate and connect on! We envision lots of creative conversations + ideas + art-filled learning to only sprout up here! We had a little aspiring artist ask “does it need to be watered?” No watering, dandelions or mowing here, just a possible red + white + polka-dotted mushroom popping up from time to time! Don’t worry mom + dad, no grass stains happening here, just the perfect texture with endless possibility for HANDMAKERY to inspire. express. create. Stay current + connected on events, classes, workshops + community happenings… join us on Facebook!
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Our Vintage Camper Painting
A little vintage camper drawing {on stretched canvas} started by a little artist in our workshop creating with six to eight year olds in HANDMAKERY FROM THE HEART: making + creating to give. Day #1 of a six week workshop, gathering to create once a week! This project was inspired by HANDMAKERY’S -{LOVE}- for vintage + collected + time-worn objects, graced with patina + imperfections + textures + unique colors, that tell a one-of-a-kind story. We dreamed up this project and envisioned it beginning 2-D, then moving into 3-D, with the addition of mixed media. Can’t wait to show you how it evolves and gets personalized below!
A few of our personal vintage object from 2Market2: clothing + handpicked goods located in Carbondale | CO used for inspiration + learning about vintage.
A photograph of one of our favorite vintage campers {borrowed for educational/artistic purposes} from one of our favorite blogs featuring Elsie + Emma at A Beautiful Mess.
Discovering vintage colors and developing a color pallet for our vintage camper painting. Think avocado green, bubblegum pink, creamsicle + clementine orange + more. We LOVED when each little artist shared their specific color scheme, as they were SO excited to create their own combination and very interested in getting the exact wording! Visit + follow our collection of “vintage inspiration” on our HANDMAKERY Pinterest page!
Take a peek above at all the variations of our Vintage Camper Paintings!
A close up of a Vintage Camper Painting complete with special editions including:
- a snowy + sparkly clothesline with wooden clips + handmade winter wear
- skis + snowboards
- garland created with washi tape + red and white twine
- a personalized quote on handwriting paper
- sparkles, shine + snowflakes, oh my!
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