Art2Heart features in the Poverty & Hope Exhibition

Come and join us at the Poverty & Hope Art Exhibition on Saturday 19 Nov 2011 at 2 pm at the Highway Gallery, Mt Waverley. Selected Art2Heart work will be featured in this exciting exhibition! Click here for more details: JCI Whitehorse Maroondah: Invitation to Poverty & Hope Opening

Art2Heart Short Film Clip

If you would like to view a short film about the Art2Hear program, please visit the following link

Opening

Thanks to everyone who came and celebrated our Opening with us yesterday at the MGA (Monash Gallery of Art) in Wheelers Hill. Here is some of the highlights.

You Are Invited!

Please join us at our Monash Gallery of Art Exhibition (18 Oct to 4 Dec 2011) with the Opening scheduled on Saturday the 5th of November at 2pm. Families and friends are most welcome.

Preparation for the MGA Exhibition

What can we say? We simply had lots of fun during the preparation!

Award winning program

Have you heard it yet? Our 2011 Art2Heart program has just won JCI Australia's Best Youth Activities Program at this year's National Convention!! We can now proudly say we are running an award winning program!

What Bronte has to say ...

We think our program is great! The artists think our program is great! But what do you think? This is what Bronte has to say about her experience with the Art2Heart program. We thank Bronte for sharing her thoughts with us.

Over 6 weeks a selection of students from schools in the Whitehorse and Maroondah area went to 6 different sessions and saw different artists to learn a bit about being an artist and about the different sorts of art.  (note from the Chapter: this program also included students from Monash district)

My favourite sessions would have to be the first one, the third one, the fifth one and the sixth one.

The 1st one was all about movement and feeling in the art that you do. We learnt how to do some cool break dancing moves and then we were taught a dance. After that we got the paints out. We painted how we felt when we watched the break-dancer dance. The artist told us to choose the colours to express the dance in by listening and watching the dance as we worked.

The 3rd one was also at the JCI Hall. It was about making didgeridoos. We all learnt about the instrument from the did Man he was really entertaining and fun to listen to. He could play so well. We learnt how to play them. Then we got to paint a plastic didgeridoo. It was so much fun.

The 5th was the ceramics. We got get our hands into the clay to make and decorate a long tube pot. I enjoyed playing with different designs. I ended up making one with butterflies on it. This one had to be my favourite session.

The 6th one was on glass and multi-media. We made a beautiful wooden box We also got to make 3 pieces of jewellery and a candle holder. The glass was so beautiful and the studio was amazing.

I would like to thank all the artists, Suzi and Amber for all the hard work they put in. Without them the program wouldn't have been a success.

Bronte R.

What Dishita has to say....

We think our program is great! The artists think our program is great! But what do you think? This is what Dishita has to say about her experience with the Art2Heart program. We thank Dishita for sharing her thoughts with us.

I had the most amazing time and I enjoyed every bit of it. I learnt a lot about art, music and dance. This kind of experience is the first one I had and I made the most of it. I was very lucky to get chosen.

My favorite session was with Garey and Kristen at their art studio. It was great fun working with glass and wood.

A great thanks to all those who made this workshop a wonderful experience for me!

Dishita S

Thank You

A big thank-you to Bridgette and her mother for their kind words and gifts to Amber and Suzi. We are very happy that you found our Art2Heart program enjoyable and that you have experienced some wonderful things.

We are also very grateful to all the artists and volunteer drivers who donated their time to this program. We will contact everyone again in Aug to discuss about our upcoming October exhibition at the Monash Gallery of Art. So stay tune!!

Suzi



Spirit of Glass

Our last Art2Heart session was a trip to Kirsten's Spirit of Glass on Sat 2nd of July. Kirsten is an award-winning artist whose studio in Dandenong Ranges is simply full of surprises! Thanks to Kirsten and her husband, Garey, we had an exciting time learning how to make glass jewelleries and wooden candle holders.

What Michael has to say ...

We think our program is great! The artists think our program is great! But what do you think? This is what Michael has to say about his experience with the Art2Heart program. We thank Michael for sharing his thoughts with us.

It was very fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will LOVE to do it again, and I also have learnt new techniques, like I never knew you can draw with charcoal! It has been so much fun and the week that I liked the most was the pottery with Lynda and I can predict that the glass session will be even better.

Michael M.

What Caitlin has to say ...

We think our program is great! The artists think our program is great! But what do you think? This is what Caitlin has to say about her experience with the Art2Heart program. We thank Caitlin for sharing her thoughts with us.

I really like this program because it gives me an opportunity to learn about what art is really like and then experience different ways of art: music, ceramics, painting and dance.

My favorite session was pottery with Lynda Kent because I could express myself and how I was feeling on the vase.

Thank you to everyone who gave me the opportunity to enjoy the program.

Caitlin B.

Magic with clay

On Sat 25th of June, we were welcomed by Lynda Kent to her open studio in Ferntree Gully. We learned to work with clay and had a go making a vase. It was amazing how creative we can be working with our hands and working with clay. We thank Lynda for introducing this wonderful medium to us.

What Bridgette has to say....

We think our program is great! The artists think our program is great! But what do you think? This is what Bridgette has to say about her experience with the Art2Heart program. We thank Bridgette for sharing her thoughts with us.

I'm having a great time doing the program. It's allowed me to enjoy and learn about things I might not have otherwise had the opportunity to do. So far I have especially liked going to the artists studio to see their work places and my favourite thing was the session with The Didgeman because I could be really creative in my decorating.

Thank you for the chance to be part of such a wonderful program.

Bridgette C. ;-)

Music and colours

On Sat 18th of June 2011, we were warmly welcomed to the world of Tracey Roberts. Under the amazing dome (yes, Tracey and her family live in a dome), for the very first time, we were introduced to the concept of "synesthesia" (seeing colours whilst listening to music).