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what’s going on…

May 2, 2024
by lovelabstudio
Here we go!
With creativity, care, + intention – we are entering 2025.

Please join us for some of the sweetness this month. We are so happy to welcome you.
xox Christina

Weds + Thurs starting Jan 15 + 16 drop off
Creative Art Afterschool!
Be super creative, get cozy, build community + gain art skills
Great choices of a longer OR shorter with tad later start time, art after school.
Sign up for 1, 2, or all three winter months! Wed 3:30 – 5:15
OR Thu 3:45 – 5:00 (we are launching a shorter option this winter!)
Ages 6 – 12 (5-year-olds often love it, but check in first!)
Wednesdays sold out / some spots still open Thursdays! starts Jan 15th!

Open Studio an open studio (grown-ups + kids come anytime) 10- 3 unless noted
You get to come in and play with the projects we have curated for you! Sliding scale.
Our younger friends can also play in the play area, add to the weaving loom and new cloth collage area, + read books. Each week will be a new theme.
> Sunday, Jan 18: beloved community: banners for a better world and lifting the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. + the the Maine Peoples March***
> Friday, Jan 17: beloved community: banners for a better world and lifting the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. + the the Maine Peoples March***
> Friday, Jan 24: theme tba

> Friday, Jan 31: theme tba
> Saturday, Feb 4: Valentines details tba
> Friday, Feb 10: Valentines details tba
> Saturday, Feb 11: Valentines details tba

*** care, create + connect: banners + art build for a better world
We are thrilled to be making banners and art with children, families, and all for the Maine People’s March and in partnership with them, happening in Portland on Saturday, January 18, at 10:30 am. From the local organizers, “We can resist and fight fascism through local action in our own backyards. Let’s bring out Portland, Maine, to care, connect, and create.”
This is a meaningful way to come together, utilizing creativity as a catalyst for healing and action. This workshop is free, but donations are welcome.
We are also making banners on Friday, January 17th 

Monday, January 20,    1 – 4 drop off
our beloved community
a Martin Luther King Jr drop off workshop
Combining joyful art making, story telling, and meaningful art as service we will do a drop off workshop for children super mixed ages 5 – 12 for Martin Luther King Jr Day. We will continue the theme of “care, connection and creativity ” and the idea of Martin Luther King Jr’s beloved community will guide us. We will be working on service projects connected to our community partners and will share more soon! If you can, please watch this video of Pious Ali reading “the Capybarus” that we filmed at the studio on our community partners website. 

 

March in the studio + out in community!

February 16, 2024
by lovelabstudio

Wow, it’s spring!
Here in Maine as I write this, I’m bundled up in a wool sweater, looking at a bloom from a bulb we put in water, it smells so lovely and also seems unreal (like the coming of spring!). We are going to ease into this new season with some gorgeous + fun spring collage with painted papers:)
Please see below notes, and we hope to see you soon! – Christina

Here’s what is happening in (+ out) of the studio this month:

> drop in at the studio We are doing open shop + open studio for March at Love Lab! You drop in to look at our little shop + studio, and if you want to do the art with your child/ren we ask for a suggested donation of $25 and up. We are putting out some gorgeous spring collage + card making materials, plus sculptural sprouts + tiny bunnies project. Not to be missed!
> time: 9 am – 2 pm
> days: Saturday 3.23 – then also Thursday 3.28, Friday 3.29, Saturday 3.30

> sign up for art now: kids date night in April! Saturday, April 6th, 5 – 7, you drop your child/ren off at Love Lab Studio and they get an amazing art workshop while you can go for a walk or treat out in the world! We still have spots

> sign up for art now: April break mini-art Friday camp(s)!,
when: Friday, April 19th, 1/2 day art camps (morning or afternoon session)
April 19th / option 1: 9am – noon / option 2: 1pm – 4pm
who: mixed-age drop-off, ages 5 – 12
cost: $65 per session

> free out in the cityat the Portland Museum of Art! We will be there Saturday, March 30th 10 – 12:30 for family day. The museum is located in downtown Portland Maine. Join us! You can go there (and see me!) or go to the studio that morning and see one of our wonderful assistants!

> our public art popping up powerfully traveling and out-n-about, art that we co-created with the children! Our public art FOOD can (+ spoon) is out collecting mac n’ cheese for our community partner the Locker Project, to send home food for children in Portland over school break. This project aims for children to be engaged as artist change-makers, responding to the idea that food for all is a human right and no child should go hungry.
The can is –  traveling + collecting! First, Friends School of Portland launched it into the world, next – Wayneflete (March 19 – 24) next – Maine Coast Waldorf (March 25 – April 3).
If you want to be part of this effort, follow and support The Locker Project, you can also drop off boxes of mac n’ cheese to the studio while the can is out, and keep in touch.