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Painting outdoors – or en plein air painting – started 200 years ago with groups of French and English artists. Artist John Constable’s paintings View on the Stour (1819) and The Hay Wain (1821) were created outdoors and won gold medals at the prestigious Salon in Paris. Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro captured light and modern life by painting al …
Visit Mint in three parks this summer, or head to many other places, in person or online, for your creative child and family fun.
[space_20] Generosity will show up in two beautiful and inspiring ways from Mint Artists Guild this fall and winter. The first: Mint has created a calendar honoring five years of Paint Detroit with Generosity paintings donated to local causes. It gives 13 beautiful images to brighten every month of 2021. The second: Mint is sharing 25 original paintings, created by …
Mint gives some very sweet idea for autumn crafts.
Mint is launching a line of stickers, based on original youth art. They are meant to inspire faith, beauty, hope and generosity.
In these challenging times, we need heroes. Come meet some of ours at a new show at The Scarab Club in Midtown Detroit.
[space_20] When we leap into something new and big, it helps to bring along an optimist and a make-magic-happen person like Will Langford. Known as Will The Poet, he has a history of helping Mint and our young artists. And he also served as the voice of Michigan State University’s “Empower Extraordinary” campaign. He will use his positive energies and …
This summer, start an adventure in frugal living with our advice.
[space_20] Summertime art and creative play deserves to take place outside, or using materials picked up in a park or woods. So we are offering four new ways to engage your creativity and make something joyful outdoors, in this new chapter of our Creativity for Challenging Times posts. Plein air painting. You don’t have to have a huge wall …
Three new ideas for creative projects in challenging times.
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