LIPSTiCK TrACeZ

Join Karen Kimmel & friends for a weekend of craft, community, and creativity.

SHIFT GEARS from the hectic hustle of city life to a family retreat at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs.  INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS focus on the reuse and repurpose of natural materials in art. Projects include stencils, piñatas, potato prints, miniature gardens, dioramas, macramé and knitting.  HOST KAREN KIMMEL will lead the group along with her talented team: David Alvarez, Clare Crespo, Confetti System, Elizabeth Halpern, Erik Ian and Geoff McFetridge. POOLSIDE RECREATION & RELAXATION includes options such as a barbecue, movie night and communal dining, all designed to bring creative families closer together.

Special package rate of $650* includes:
• 2 days art instruction and supplies
• 2 nights lodging (standard king or double)
• Friday night fireside s'mores
• Saturday movie night and popcorn
• Kimmel Kids tote filled with fabulous goodies
* Upgrades available. Tax and tip not included.
* A la carte meal options available:
• Saturday family-style breakfast and poolside BBQ
• Sunday brunch

Reserve your space by March 30, 2010.
Call 760.325.9900, promo code ART
For more info, visit kimmelkids.com/crafting or
acehotel.com/palmsprings
Cancel by April 12 for a full refund. Call for complete details.

Please join me and First Street Gallery Artists January 9-19 @ Heath Ceramics

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).

Over the last two months I have been doing an Art of Exchange ceramic and stencil workshop at the 1st Street Gallery in Claremont. 1st Street is an art center and gallery for adults with mental and developmental disabilities. On October 2nd from 6-8pm the gallery will be exhibiting the work we have created together. I know it is a bit of a trek from LA, but the place and the people are so inspiring. If you have the time and can make it, I would love to see you there. If not, we will be showing the work from the show at Heath Ceramics Los Angeles in January.

New Editions is hosting an artist workshop with me, Karen Kimmel, at J. Crew in Malibu!

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

Apple Via and I are putting together an art making weekend at the Ace Hotel the weekend of  July11th and we want you to come!!!!

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...

I have been invited by Partners & Spade to help launch their Avant Garde Preschool with my Art of Exchange Stencil Workshop. If you are free and up for crafting your own masterpiece please come check it out! 

New stencil set and coloring book too, come on now...

Here are the details and more info about the workshops.

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)