Thursday, June 16, 2011

K.I.D.S. Art Ed at Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival

Teaching artist Meghan Keane used the Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival as a chance to explore drawing and sustainability.  Recycling her plastic bag collection as a drawing material she engaged children and their care-givers in yet another exciting Drawing Together exploration.  Participants had the option to experiment with sailors knots to attach the plastic bags to one another or to simply create their own silly, make-up-their-own knots.  Participants came and went, tying and experimenting, and slowly our plastic bag drawing grew and grew: