Description
stars and snow!
(to celebrate small biz Saturday this workshop is marked down 15% for you!)
Cozy, warm, and bright.
Join us each weekend to sink into calm, playful, and beautifully curated crafts for this month, decorate your home, give as gifts, or both!
Join us for 4 weekends of creative holiday fun, each week a different theme.
Week 1: stars and snow!
Hand-crafting beautiful and funky star garlands for our doors, walls, + windows all weekend! Plus, at the drop-off workshop, gorgeous mini-winter scenes (at least 2, + framable!) Mattise inspired art, and other star/snow art people to keep, play with, and give as gifts!
Friday 1 – 3 pm
Nov 29
a drop-off workshop for kids (pre-sign-up on the drop-down menu to the right!)
ages 5 – 13
For siblings, please use the discount code sibling10. If payment is tricky for you financially at this time, please reach out to us. We can’t wait to see you in the studio!
Saturday 10 am – 5 pm
Nov 30
open studio, a drop-in to make crafts!
This is a grown-up and child time to come and make art together, have a special date!
(sliding scale $15/30/40 pay what you can, + all ages are welcome)
PLUS! it’s a small biz Saturday, and our little art supply shop will have some giveaways and + a little sale! When you buy from us, it helps keep our small business open in Portland; it’s the best!
*extra info
our space
Our space, Love Lab Studio, is fun and joyful, bright. The design is thoughtfully curated for the needs of children. We are located at 26 Brackett Street, a mixed residential and retail neighborhood in the West End of Portland. Usually, you can find parking close or nearby on one of the neighborhood streets.
some of our values
With backgrounds as studio/craft/public artists and designers, certified art teachers, Reggio Emilia and Waldorf inspired/trained, advanced degrees, service learning, college teaching experience, contemporary art education pedagogy of all kinds, some of our values include:
* The whole child: social & emotional development, inclusion within a deeply caring and welcoming community
* Child as a communicator + poet: language development through participation, listening, art
* Child as co-creator: project-based, hands-on, playful, individual learning and collaboration
* Child as informed citizen: community member, global + ecological participant. We care for each other, and work to develop our ability to do that better all the time.
* Child as artist: centering arts, creativity, imagination, joy + healing in all we do!
healthy community
For the safety and health of all, we are working hard to stay open and keep our community well. If you or your child is sick, please don’t come and reschedule! If you have a cough or any questions, please mask up! Our ceiling fans and air filter will be running. We will revisit our COVID and healthy community policy as we go. We DO encourage you, if you are sick in any way or feel worried, to pop your mask on or reschedule. We are also back to hand-washing to stay on top of this as well. Thank you!
before the drop off workshop!
> We will send you a welcome email before your art workshop, reminding you of anything you need to remember or bring.
> Each parent/guardian must sign our online forms (including media form, release form, and other important info).
> Come ready to have fun and become a part of the studio! It’s always good to wear clothes it’s OK to get dirty too. We will detail all of this in our welcome email.
waiting list
Please view our waiting list inquiry form on our contact page and submit your choice if you would like to be on our waiting list!
teachers For drop-off workshops, lead teachers often include Christina Bechstein with our teaching team + visiting artists. We always have 2 teachers (sometimes just 1 with parent/child to save space!), and sometimes a teaching intern will join Christina) We all work together. As artists, art teachers, creatives, and art therapists, we are invested in creating safe, nurturing, whole-heart, joyful spaces for children. We are very skilled in many pedagogies and have years of teaching experience in private and public schools and also college-level. We work to set up a caring and super creative environment, and we see it as a complete honor to support your children’s voice and creativity!
We look forward to seeing you at the studio!
