I read and obituary in the New York Times on August 11th about a photographer and she described how magical it was to watch the image on a blank piece of paper come floating towards her in the developer after she had exposed it. Its funny her description is exactly what happened this week here [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Exposing blank paper
Posted in Uncategorized on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Arts for Hope campers shine on final day
Posted in The Arts for Hope Camp on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As Arts for Hope Camp ends, renowned artist talks about the great futures for those who attended . . . and says they now know someone from somplace else cares about them! When the BuildaBridge team gathered here more than a week ago, we sang a chorus: I can do all the world needs, but [...]
Talking about the acting craft
Posted in The Arts for Hope Camp on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in The Arts for Hope Camp on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BuildaBridge cofounder thanks Tribal Council Before today’s Arts for Hope Camp session, Dr. Vivian Nix-Early, cofounder of BuildaBridge, met with the Tribal Council and thanked them for their invitation and support for our work with their children. They thanked us for coming. Dr. Nix-Early, who is directing the camp, is accompanied by Rebekah Wilcox, our [...]
Char-Koosta News features arts camp in today’s edition
Posted in The Arts for Hope Camp on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Community invited to exhibition Friday to see what children learned at Arts Camp PABLO — The Montana Arts for Hope Camp, held this week at Three Eagle River School, will showcase what the children have learned at 1 p.m. Friday in the Arlee Charlo Theater, next to the gymnasium at Salish Kootenai College. Everyone in [...]
Photography students get hands-on-camera experience
Posted in The Arts for Hope Camp on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Montana Arts for Hope Camp’s Photography class got hands-on-camera experience Wednesday. Photographer David J. Spear, a former professional photographer in New York City who now works and teacher in Pablo, Montana, is the teacher. He loaned each student one of his personal cameras, Nikons and Minoltas. In picture below he’s posing, pretending to be [...]
Every chef’s gotta have a hat
Posted in The Arts for Hope Camp on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
. . . to keep hair out of the food. So chef Steve Thompson taught his class to make hats, as well as pizzz dough, in his culinary arts class on Tuesday. Here James Farmer, 9, and Steve model their hats. James plans to be a chef or a construction engineer when he grows up. [...]
Arts for Hope Cooking Class Tuesday morning
Posted in The Arts for Hope Camp on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ana Michel, 8, shows chef Steve Thompson, a member of the BuildaBridge “Artists on Call” team from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, her progress in making a ball of pizza dough in the Culinary Arts class Tuesday morning. She’s being assisted by Melody Rice, of Butte, Montana, another member of the team. That’s Dr. Vivian Nix-Early, co-founder of [...]
Montana Arts for Hope Camp opens
Posted in The Arts for Hope Camp on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our BuildaBridge Arts for Hope Camp started pretty well today. We’ll know for sure tomorrow. It has attracted an interesting variety of children. One had just won blue and purples ribbons at a local fair for the steer she raised as a 4H Club project. Others were hurting — for a variety of reasons, including [...]
Preparing for camp — which starts Monday
Posted in The Arts for Hope Camp on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The week-long Montana Arts for Hope camp for 100 youth, ages 9-16, is being presented at the request of the Tribal Council on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. It will include classes on mural painting, acting, culinary arts, dance, photography and acting. This afternoon each team of volunteer artist-teachers reported to the whole group how they plan to teach their class and got interesting feedback from their peers as well as guidance from Dr. Vivian Nix-Early, co-founder of Philadelphia-based BuildaBridge and director of the camp.
