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Summer break, and our second year of kids' summer art camps, are coming to an end!
Next Friday will be the last day of the last camp of the season. It's been a great, fun summer. We had both a lot of very welcome returning students and a lot of wonderful new students. We went on some field trips, visited the library and Grant Park, made t-shirts, set alcohol inks on fire, dyed shibori, built structures and vehicles and armor and fashionable ensemble, drew and painted, and painted and painted.
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Visiting painter Alexys Henry spent a week with us in August, creating a 20' abstract landscape for a client in our studio and generously sharing her process with us. We hope she'll be back with us soon for some collaborative activities.
Rumble will be closed the week of September 1-5, 2024 and will re-open Monday, September 9th for kids' after-school open studio, Monday through Friday at 3:30PM to 5:30PM, and shortly for coming adult classes, workshops and events.
If you home school and are going to the Oregon Home Education Network's annual Resource Fair, we'll be at our booth there at the Oaks Park Home School Rides day event on Friday, September 6. If you don't home school but know someone who does and doesn't know about this great, annual event especially for home schoolers, send them this link to the event details -
https://www.oakspark.com/homeschoolridespolicies
We are so grateful for the students and families that joined us this summer, we had a great time and we hope you all did, too! Here's to a wonderful fall and let's do some more.
As we're all trapped at home watching the ice sparkle, PDX Parent sent out a link to a lovely program by the Oregon Symphony, "Symphony Storytime."
There are four seasons of this program, each video episode, about 10-15 minutes long, features a reader of a children's picture book, with a musician on a different instrument accompanying them. The illustrations are displayed as the story moves through the book and we get introduced to instruments like the French horn, cello, flute, oboe, timpani, bassoon, viola, xylaphone, and many more.
This is a great, restful and relaxing activity and I loved it. I found a book that was a favorite of my now-grown children, "Owl Babies," and sent them all the link for a bit of nostalgia.
Not Back to School Day at Oaks Park, Oregon Home Education Network Resource Fair 2023
By Gaabriel Becket, 2023-09-13
Rumble Art Studios was invited to have a table at the Oregon Home Education Network's (OHEN) resource fair at Oaks Park in Sellwood.
OHEN hosts a "Not Back To School Day" for homeschooled students and their families, who enjoyed the rides and the park train, and had lunch outside under the oaks and the sunshine. The resource fair provides information and a chance for new and experienced homeschool families to find more options to broaden and enrich their children's educational experience.
We were lucky enough to be assigned a spot next to the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, who brought an incredible crocheted anemone (among other things), and across from the Rice Rock Museum in Hillsboro, who brought a dinosaur egg and geodes (among other things) two of the very best science field trip destinations in the state!
The Oregon National Guard came this year to volunteer to help vendors get themselves and their gear to the Dance Pavilion and generally help out, and were stationed at the gate coming in to the park to help people find where they needed or wanted to go. Super nice guys!
We also saw tables manned by Village Home Education Resource Center, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, Echo Theater Company, Alder Commons, and too many more to name. Lots of people came by our table, met wonderful people and had wonderful conversations about art and education, and we made tissue paper blossoms and traded them for doodles.
This was a very fun event, we're glad we got to go and we hope to be back next year!