I love bonsai. I found a wonderful collection of bonsai at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh when I visited there a few years ago. For my birthday, I requested a trip to a local bonsai nursery. Every year for my birthday which falls in early January, I make my husband…
Category: Art Projects for Kids
Best art projects for kids using multimedia.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Our oldest, Grasshopper and Sensei, is a student at Rhode Island School of Design, and we always made it a point to visit art museums whenever we traveled, but this was the first time that we traveled with her but went to an art museum without her. She took her siblings for a day of…
What Is a Storyboard and Why Do You Need to Create One?
My First-To-College Mentee was interested in storyboarding as a career in the entertainment industry. Storyboarding can be the ultimate creative job — think Star Wars and who got to imagine that world with all the various types of aircraft and weaponry! But even commercials need storyboarding as a way to communicate to the client what…
My Daughter’s MIT Media Lab Internship: AttentivU (biofeedback glasses to focus)
My daughter is a sophomore at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) and she landed her dream internship at MIT Media Lab. The project that she is working on as the lead designer is AttentivU, a biofeedback device that measures brainwaves and eye movement to help with staying focused. The device is designed into a…
Multicultural Children’s Book Club: Juneteenth Celebration!
Please join me and Amy Tai for our second Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. June’s event will be held on June 3rd and we are celebrating Juneteenth using Juneteenth Jamboree by…
Fold an Easy Origami Sumo and the Tokyo Olympics
The Tokyo Olympics are postponed for one year but we can still learn about Japanese culture. Did you know that sumo was being considered as an exhibition sport for the Tokyo Olympics? Sumo wasn’t chosen because only a few countries with a sizeable Japanese ex-pat population had sumo. Karate was chosen instead. But I think…
Introducing Multicultural Children’s Book Club!
I’m teaming up with Amy Tai, a New York City public school elementary art school teacher, to create a monthly FREE Multicultural Children’s Book Club on behalf of Walking In Other People’s Shoes. Walking in Other People’s Shoes is a digital media platform inspiring women of color to find and empower their voices through storytelling…