After-school open studio will be back on Monday, September 9, from 3:30-5:30PM.  Drop ins are welcome but you should be able to also book in advance on the site tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing students and this weekend I'm hunting for fun things to use in mixed media and other projects this fall. 

Yesterday, Rumble Art Studio had a table at our second year attending the Oregon Home Education Network Resource Fair at Oaks Park. We busted out the gel plates and paint for all on our table, and had a great time meeting lots of wonderful families and their students. This photo is towards the end of the event, gel plate activity attracted a lot of people and I'm kind of amazed at how clean and organized looking we were able to keep it looking at this point!

I also teach on Thursday mornings at Village Home Education Resource Center in Beaverton and was happy to see some of my students and their families from Village at this event. So far we haven't done services particularly for home school students at Rumble, but I want to change that and get some workshops and classes going for that student population. If you know anyone who home schools in the area, please let them know we're here. 

Rice Rock Museum was at the event again this year and I scooped up a handful of free child passes with adult ticket purchase. They'll be on the store counter at the studio, feel free to pick a couple or few up to use and share. If you haven't ever been, this is a great day trip to a fascinating little cabinet museum full of beautiful things, off Hwy 26 in Hillsboro. Warning, contains gift shop with great fossils and minerals for sale.

Our booth space was right next to my favorite thing, the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

This year, they brought samples of seal and otter fur, the woman running the booth gave interesting presentations on how these animals are different.  That green thing in the middle of the table is a fantastic, life-sized, crocheted green sea anemone someone made and donated. New in the aquarium is a dedicated jellyfish gallery with new viewing tanks and an expanded environment for their octopus. 

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.

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.