Art Blog

Changing the World: One Artist at a Time

Maeva Renaud Title: Girls Deserve More  (Link to more photos) Medium: Mixed Media, Acrylic, Recycled Material, Poetry Topic Abstract: Girls Deserve More is a mixed media pop-up art bags project that focuses on addressing the affects of climate change on young girls living in poverty stricken communities. The bags are tools to be incorporated in [...]

Hannah Poon is creating a project that incorporates art as a tool for community development and community bridging. The Art Bike project will be a mobile mini art studio that will bring art supplies and programming into diverse communities around Calgary. Following the theme of “The environment and how it affects social relationships and involvement”, The Art Bike [...]

The purpose of this project by Bethany Reiff was to write an illustrated children’s book about modern day slavery. With upper estimates of 27 million people trapped in human trafficking today there is no denying that modern day slavery is a critical problem. Storytelling is a powerful tool used to educate children. While there has [...]

Inquire, Explore, Create

This week’s theme is the sea and the various ways in which the creatures of the ocean evolve and adapt to their environment. On Monday, we paid a visit to the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, New Jersey where we explored … Continue reading →

This year at Artology, we have four interns from the Philadelphia branch of Bridging the Gaps. Debbie August (leader of the Green Group): I am a second year Masters Music Therapy student at the Drexel University College of Nursing and … Continue reading →

Last Friday, July 6, Artology travled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA). Once inside the PMA, the Artologists went on an art scavenger hunt throughout the Modern Art (about 18th century to 21st century) galleries.  Ms. L distributed clues … Continue reading →

Arts for Hope, Healing and Restoration

I’ve been home for a little less than a week. My life has switched from teaching in the bateyes and painting murals in mountain villages to picking my niece up from school and picking Legos up from my nephew’s toy room. In another week I’ll be back in New York and preparing for another school [...]

I will be home(ish) at this time tomorrow. Closer to home than I’ve been in six weeks, at least. I’ll be on my way to my sister’s house after 43 days of Latin America. After 43 days of new lands, new people, new culture, new plants, new everything. I will return to the familiar, to [...]

We ended our week long art camp in Bogota today. We celebrated our projects with the community. We shared our work. We sang and laughed and danced. My class painted a mural in a lot that had been used for trash. It was a reclaiming of space. It was transformational. My kids stood in front [...]