Stuff to Do While Practicing PHYSICAL Distancing
Week 7
Stuff to do, readers:
  1. Help us plan by taking our summer camp survey, please.
  2. Check out and sign up for our online classes.
  3. Save a few dollars to help us out on Giving Tuesday, May 5. We're working hard to stay afloat and keep serving our community throughout this crisis and get ready for a new normal after physical distancing.

As always, thanks for reading and staying in touch!
In the CVA Gallery: Self-Recognition through the Other Exhibit
This Week's Featured Artist & Show Curator:
Work Titles: (left) The Entrancing Life of the Two-Headed Nightingale and (right) A Study on Engaging Material A

Artist Statement:
"My work celebrates the inner-beauty of Black people, and explores the complexity of conceptual photography while integrating meaningful social commentary. With this series I thought about fantasy in terms of liberation, and what that means. I question if I can show the viewer something they can relate to emotionally but have never seen? It helps to approach my work with the understanding that our thinking has been purposely placed in a box, a truth that gives me purpose as an artist."

For more of Kunjo's work, click HERE .
This Week's Museum Tour:
The Museum of Broken Relationships
(Zagreb, Croatia; and Los Angeles, CA)
image of Zagreb display c. Mare Milin
"Museum of Broken Relationships is a physical and virtual public space created with the sole purpose of treasuring and sharing your heartbreak stories and symbolic possessions. It is a museum about you, about us, about the ways we love and lose.

At its core, the Museum is an ever-growing collection of items, each a memento of a relationship past, accompanied by a personal, yet anonymous story of its contributor. Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from grief and loss, the Museum offers the chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creativity - by contributing to its universal collection.

Museum of Broken Relationships is an original creative art project conceived by Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić in 2006. It has since taken thousands of people on an empathetic journey around the world, challenging our ideas about heritage. Its original permanent location was founded in Zagreb. In 2010 it won the EMYA Kenneth Hudson Award as the most innovative and daring museum project in Europe."
A Three-Volume Proust , image c. Ana Opalic
This Week's Art Activities for Kids

This is an easy, fun art activity that's also got science and math components, if you like! Color, symmetry, and more. There's lots of opportunity to get messy, so be sure to cover the kiddos and work surface up before you begin.

This activity is good for all ages, actually: Younger kids tend to get into the fun and mess of it, while older kids can be intentional about placement of colors and shapes, creating really beautiful results.

Supplies needed:
  • Washable tempera paint, poured into small bowls
  • Short pieces of string
  • Copy paper and/or cardstock
  • Spoons to help cover the string in paint
  • Table covering (optional)
  • Baby wipes or a damp towel to clean hands




This activity is better for grades 3 and up, as it requires some scissors skills. It's a neat way to practice drawing, painting, cutting, coloring, and composition skills, all in one project! Don't worry, though, if you don't have everything on the list below. Substitutions are totally acceptable!

Supplies needed:
  • paper
  • black permanent marker
  • crayons, colored pencils, or markers
  • non-toxic paint - any kind

Today's Art Activity for Teens and Adults:
This video tutorial, called "A Simple Method for Beginners (and maybe experts, too!)" via an artist named Ben Hartnett (check out his work on FB HERE and on other sites mentioned in the YouTube intro) describes a digital painting process using Photoshop that we hear makes digital painting easier and faster regardless of what style or subject you're painting.

It's just a short video, but it packs a lot of good advice and tools in!

Let us know if you try this out - we'd love to see what you create.

Random Art Inspiration:

Tiffany Alfonseco

graphite on paper, 2020
“Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.”
Stella Adler (1901-1992)

Thanks for reading. Hope this "Stuff to Do" is helpful and inspiring - please share images of any artwork you or your children make. Email them to info@greensboroart.org or post on our social media. It will help US stay sane :)

Stay healthy, stay home, keep your cool, and try to focus on the positive. Check for new newsletters about once a week, and check out our FB and Instagram feeds regularly...we'll be doing some fun stuff for #GivingTuesdayNow!

love,
THE CVA