Today, I wanted to look at the Civil Rights Movement told through art and children’s books. Both are powerful communication tools both to educate and as a means to connect emotionally with what happened. Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans…
Category: Art Projects for Kids
Best art projects for kids using multimedia.
Hokusai’s Making Waves at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
My husband and I had to scramble to make the Hokusai exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. When it first came out, I earmarked it and felt like I had all the time in the world to see it. Suddenly, I discovered that the exhibit would be moving on in two weeks…
We Make Our First Bonsai
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…
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…