THANK YOU! Artists, parents, families, and Bramhalls for helping to make this the best ever annual student show!  Thanks for all of the food contributions, and support, and especially thank you for sharing your awesome kids with me. Bramhall’s (replacing their lobster tank this week) will be totally open for the season next weekend, so go on over and have an ice-cream and enjoy the art.

AUCTION: I still need to get the 3 or 4 remaining un-claimed auction items from Bramhall’s tomorrow, and then I’ll know for sure how much we raised. So far I’ve got $449 – which is awesome.  Make sure to tell your young artists how cool they are for donating their work to help the whales and dolphins.  I think we’re in line to adopt 10 animals! How cool is that?

 
Any kids who want to do the HORSESHOE CRAB ART CONTEST this year can do it next week.  The deadline is June 15, and I enter them electronically, so we don’t need to send the actual paintings.  I put all of the entries in a dropbox for them. You can find the application for here: http://www.horseshoecrab.org/act/contest.html Fill it out and bring with or scan and email, and I’ll include it with the works we enter.
 
My daughter will be here for a week around June 17, so I may take the week of June 20 off.
 
SUMMER: Last year’s 4-day weekly sessions worked out well.   I will tend to do mostly mornings as I hope to get to the farmers’ market on Thursday afternoons. But I will throw an afternoon session in there if peeps want it.  Is anyone interested in doing the mask-making like last year? That’s a 5-class operation and I’d say mature ages 7 and up.  It’s quite an arduous process that takes focus and determination.  
Other session ages 6 and up, well-behaved and reliable, as I need a certain level of maturity to pull these classes off.  I’m thinking Backyard Naturalist, Art Smorgasbord, Plein air pastels, stuff like that…
 
THIS WEEK
Tues, May 17 – no class – off week
If I have 4 peeps who want every week, I’ll do it. (So far 1)

Wed, May 18
9:30-11:30 Art as a Verb
Semi private – Michelle and Colleen 
 
4-5:30, Down & Dirty
Jack
Jill
Eve
Sophia
Billy
Lana
Mia
(no Faranetta – room for 1)

Thurs, May 19 – 4:00-5:30 Down & Dirty  Room for a few more in this class

Sammy
Emma
Scotty
Lyla
Lilli?
(anyone else?) 
 
NEXT WEEK
Tues, May 24, 4-5:30 Down & Dirty
Max
Charlotte
Reese
Abby
Link
Max D
Shea
Mason
(FULL)
 
Wed, May 25
9:30-11:30 Art as a Verb
Semi private – Michelle and Colleen 
 
4-5:30, Down & Dirty
Jack
Jill
Eve
Sophia
Billy
Lana
Mia
Sydney
(FULL)

Thurs, May 26, 4:00-5:30 Down & Dirty  

Sammy
Emma
Scotty
Dottie
Lilli?
(anyone else?)