K. gets to a point of each project and eventually scrawls over what she has done.  In a previous class, I told her that she could not have more materials to work with, but that she would have to work to change the piece she scrawled over.  (this was expensive aluminum, limited supply and I thought she needed to work through this tendency).  She cried quite a bit about this, but stayed in the class.  Eventually, I talked to her about what her actions meant and what my hope was for her in terms of honoring her work, sticking with it, finding help if she was frustrated and respecting supplies.  She listened really well and I gave her another piece of aluminum.

She slowed down and took great care with this.

She had a good attitude and was happy to have been given another chance to make better decisions.

Arts Street Textile Studio: handmade with the homeless invites you to join us on Friday August 26th for our last 4th Friday Reception at 706 South Street!  Where I Find Home features gorgeous photographs by Mary Johnson, a Printmaker and Photographer studying at Temple's Tyler School of the Arts. Mary's hauntingly beautiful photographs are of Philadelphia's hidden places - sites where some of our homeless friends find solace. The physical component that ties her photographs together is the nature of the abandoned and decrepit. Some locations are public, some are private, most are unknown. Some are in plain sight to be passed by and ignored, and some are hidden for only the adventurous to discover. Each location, though lonely and unused, carries a story that can only be pieced together by what remains on the inside. Also, we are building a city out of cardboard! Please come to help us by adding a row-home, skyscraper, school, factory or cottage!

Where I Find Home

Friday, August 26th 5:00 - 8:00pm

Arts Street Textile Studio

706 South Street

Philadelphia, PA 19147