by Allida | Feb 3, 2017 | Mobile, Public Events, Reflection, Youth Voices
The Words below are from our YCS @ Work Intern Desiree Thompson. She has been collaborating with us to bring her experience of History to our young learners. Students at YIES, and Erickson are learning about Architecture, History, and the Underground Railroad from...
by Dylan Kite | Jan 30, 2017 | Mobile, Reflection
Students and volunteers redesign the facade of houses and apartments – choosing designs that honor the past, depict the present, or predict the future of architecture. It’s here! The new year marks FLY’s new Creativity Lab. Young artists at Erickson and...
by Allida | Dec 1, 2016 | Mobile, Reflection, Series
Many of you might have heard about the new community event, YpsiGLOW that happened on October 27th in collaboration with the Ypsilanti Distict Library, Wonderfool Productions, and Ozone House Drop-in Center’s Hall-Ozone. The event itself lit-up Washington Street with...
by Allida | Jul 16, 2016 | Camp, Make Things Happen: How To!, Mobile, Series
Paper plate zoetropes are an idea that occurred to me when I was making some other projects with kids this winter. We were making UFO mobiles that spun on an axle, and I thought, “Hey, this looks a lot like a zoetrope, and I’ve always wanted to do...
by Allida | Jun 21, 2016 | Camp, Make Things Happen: How To!, Mobile
This is the first in a series of how-to’s that we will be publishing on our blog. This project was done first in the Mid-winter Break Camp, and then in the Mobile program. It was inspired by a project in How to Make Flibbers, etc. by Robert Lopshire, but...
by Allida | Mar 6, 2016 | Mobile
Achromatic Painting is one of my favorite projects. We bring in a variety of black and white inspiration images, and then set the kids loose to explore the variations in tone and the feeling of the paint on the paper. Using black and white forces the attention onto...