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Artist, living in LA http://www.karenkimmel.com/
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's anything your little dreamer desires!
Let her imagination take flight with Kimmel Kids/The Art of Exchange art tools, stencil activity kits designed by local installation artist Karen Kimmel. Initially created for Kimmel's ongoing drawing workshops, the bright, nature-inspired patterns spur kids to create abstract designs as they toy with color, shape, and form.
Each kit comes with original laser-cut plastic stencils, an activity book filled with fluorescent paper and coloring templates, neon pencils, and a nifty pencil case -- all stashed in an eye-catching canvas pouch.
Play around for one minute or one hour.
Either way, sky's the limit.
Available at A+R, 1121-1 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, between San Juan and Westminster Avenues, Venice (310-392-9128 or aplusrstore.com).
Parent and kids alike, come join the fun...!
Sunday, September 20th
11am - 2pm
rsvp to: neweditions@thepattongroupinc.com
art, food, fun and 15% off all purchases during the event (J. Crew and crewcuts)
for more info check out neweditionsart.com
Bring your family, swim suits, sit poolside, and make arts and crafts with us!!
It is going to be a special summer weekend and we want you to be there!
Fun in the sun...
Promises to be an inspired LA evening....
Looking forward to seeing Kelly's geodestic dome bird houses!!
The Generic Man and Generic Surplus Pop Up
store at Space 1520. The party goes from 7-10 and will include drinks,
snacks, and a very special appearance from Michel Vedette and his
Automatic Body Dancing instructions...all the way from Le Baron Club
in Paris (his first appearance in the US.)
Installations by local LA artists such as Kelly Lamb
Joanna Bean, Atelier, Daniel DeSure and many others
Also there is an afterparty at the Mountain Bar in Chinatown with DFA
dj Justin Miller from NYC.
If you are in NY and love to shop, check out "My Amazing Friends" put together by one of the worlds premiere shoppers, Kim Hastreiter of Paper Magazine. She has asked her creative BFF's to make unique products to sell at Partners & Spade, a new conceptual store put together by the innovative minds of Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti. This store houses an ever-changing treasure trove of products resulting from the divine and complex union of art and design. I made some new goodies for the event, take a peek and keep the love of consumerism alive.
Partners and Spade
40 Great Jones St.
New York City
Opening June 3, 6:30-8:30 pm
this SUNDAY
NEW EDITIONS is pleased to welcome...
The Art of Exchange
Karen Kimmel & New Editions' Stencil Workshop
Sunday, May 17, 2-5pm
Karen Kimmel's Stencil Workshop encourages children to make their own mark by drawing with her nature-inspired stencils. Through this process children learn to connect with their creativity and explore abstraction. For this workshop Kimmel has created a new set of stencils from her prints created especially for New Editions.
Come draw, explore and create your own work of art!
learn more about Karen's work for New Editions at:
http://neweditionsart.com/artists/karen-kimmel
at our first Pop-up store in The Brentwood Country Mart
225 26th Street, Suite 51, Santa Monica, CA 90402
(Southwest corner of the Mart, across the parking lot from Bank of America, between Turpan and Mrs. Beasley's)
Over
the last few years I have been lucky enough to get to know and work with some
of the artist's at Creative Growth in Oakland, CA, one of the most established
art centers for adults with developmental disabilities in the country. I also
have an incredibly talented friend Cheryl Dunn, a documentary film maker who
has been trying to put the pieces together to make a doc on Creative Growth.
Inspired to help Cheryl and Creative Growth get some bills together to get this
project off the ground. I hit up a dear/talented friend at Marc Jacobs and
proposed that MJ do a collaboration of sorts with Creative Growth, not
surprisingly MJ saw the magic as well and jumped in.
The artist inspired merchandise includes eleven items designed by four Creative Growth artists: Louis Estape, Dan Miller, William Scott, and Gerone Spruill. The items include t-shirts, tote and shoulder bags and a clutch wallet, ranging in price from $19 to $35. One-hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of the artist inspired merchandise will go toward supporting the programs at the Oakland, California based center.
I just went over this week to peep the goods and window display and the work looks lovely. Swing by and get yours and give a little too. It is a feel good shopping purchase, the kind we need more of these days.
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