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Children are our future, our beautiful inspiration for 2020
Category: Arts education
Art for all: Make more Mint crafts and coloring pages
Mint Artists Guild believes in crafts – and we offer them to children in Detroit regularly. Seven times this summer, we hosted a free arts and crafts activities for families and individuals in Palmer Park, with support from the Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency and individual donors. We set up right outside the Mint Studios and children showed up in …
How collectors choose the emerging artists they buy
Five pieces of advice from art advisors and experts for collectors who seek emerging artists’ work.
Summer job with an art teacher
Ms. Jackie created more art – and better art from our youth – this summer, as she coached Mint’s Creative Summer Jobs team.
Fun, free arts and crafts in Palmer Park this summer
Join us Wednesday afternoons for free arts and crafts in Palmer Park, Detroit.
The importance of drawing and multiple works at once: Shirley Woodson’s advice
Artist Shirley Woodson shares her career and lessons, and the importance of drawing to artists.
Summertime wish list: Give us mosaics and gift cards and more!
Mint is getting ready for a busy summer of art making – and free arts and crafts in Palmer Park. And as they say it takes a village, so we are asking our village to give us some supplies. These all will be used by our teen artists for creative community art projects. Here’s our summertime wish list: Art supplies: …
Creating art increases empathy and writing skills, researchers say
Elementary and middle schools in Houston who were offered more arts and music experiences in school and after school saw “remarkable impacts on students’ academic, social, and emotional outcomes,” researchers found. Their standardized writing scores increased 13 percent, compared to the control group, and their compassion for others rose 8 percent. Students also had fewer disciplinary problems and were more …
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