what’s going on…

May 2, 2024
by lovelabstudio
Hi everyone,
We will are re-formatting our page so you can see more updates!
Please sign up for our weekly newletter at link on the right, or fill out our contact link and write: “put me on the mailing list!”
So you can find out about our sign up classes, open studios, and community free gatherings!!

xo Christina

Weds + Thurs now have openings for Feb + March!
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 4:00 – 5:15 (we are launching a shorter option this winter!)
Ages 6 – 12 (5-year-olds often love it, but check in first!)
sign up now live for: FEB + MARCH!

Open Studio an open drop in studio (grown-ups + kids come anytime) 10 – 4 pm unless noted
You get to come in, its drop in style,  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.

> Friday, Feb 7, 10 – 4
THEME: valentines! details tba xox

> Saturday, Feb 8, 10 – 4
THEME: valentines! details tba xox

> Friday, Feb 7, 10 – 4:
THEME: valentines! details tba xox

excited about summer camp options?
Our art camps will be open for registration Saturday, February 8th at 9 am
We will put up the schedule a couple of days before for you to look at it

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.