WE WANT YOU!!

Email looplinktangle@gmail.com for a volunteer form!

Savannah Community Materials Co-op!

been thinking a lot lately about the need for a community materials co-op. There is such a wealth of art supplies and recycled materials in Savannah, sometimes their original owners don't need them anymore. We need to set up a place to house and display these materials so that they can be shared with other members of our community.

In the coming year, we will be working to spread the Loop It UP program! I would love to be able to supply any school or organization with the supplies that they will need to participate!

This is the very beginning! We need your help. If you would like to become involved, please join the Facebook Group or email fibersforce@scad.edu -- this way we can keep you in the loop!!!!!

One Day in Savannah GA

Greetings All!!
Finally, after a busy month, here are some of the fabulous pictures which were taken at the LOOP IT UP art show!

On May 15th, we had a very special day! Mary Calucci of the Warm Up America Foundation and Kathleen Sams of Red Heart Yarn, came down for the event! We spent the day displaying all of the beautiful work that the kids at the Y and from the Boy's and Girls Club have made over the past few months.






At 5:30 the guests started arriving!!






We had some very special guests, including Jamison Field Murphy, who is 11 years old and a wonderful musician! He performed throughout the night...




We were so excited that Mr. and Mrs. Howard Morrison also stopped by! They have been great supporters of Loop It Up from the very start! Here they are with Peter Doliber, of the West Broad Street YMCA and Cayewah Easley, chair of the SCAD Fibers Department



Thank you, a million times over, to everyone who has helped with this project! None of it could have happened without the many volunteers, donations and the enthusiasts in our community! We plan to continue Loop It Up! and try to grow and spread it as much as we can in the coming year. We need your help! If you are interested in teaching, prepping classes, donating or organizing materials please get in touch!

You can email Molly Lieberman (SCAD Fibers) at fibersforce@scad.edu
or call Deborah Enoch, director of Childcare at the West Broad Street YMCA 912-233-1951

We hope to hear from you soon!

OUR FIRST EXHIBITION!

Loop it Up Savannah!
and the students from West Broad Street YMCA
and the Kayton Homes Boys and Girls Club
invite you to join us for
our first public exhibition of original artwork.

Reception: Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:30-6:30pm
Where: West Broad Street YMCA, 1110 May St.

*** With live music by Jamison Field Murphy! SEE YOU THERE!!

EMBROIDERY

We will be starting an embroidery project. Each kid will draw a picture. we'll tape it-- around the edges to a piece of burlap. they can then stitch their picture with yarns of choice. when it's all done, we can untape/rip off the paper and they'll have a nice little embroidery. I would like to encourage the kids to stick with their pictures. we've been seeing a lot of them start a picture and then as soon as it doesn't look exactly as they dreamed it would, they throw it away. let's try to encourage them to press on, and explore the possibilities that a mistake can present. I think that following thru and eventually making something that they do like will really help to build confidence, ownership, and a sense of connection to their work.

Yarn PUZZLES!

A few weeks ago, there was a man fixing the floor in the hallway outside our studio.
One of the tiles that he was working with broke into a dozen geometric shapes. Antonio and Roy were outside in the hallway and the repair man asked them if they could put the pieces back together and make a square... which they did. Antonio asked me if we could make puzzles sometime.

This project is a response to their request as well as an important step in the process of becoming fluent with materials and growing the excellent fine motor skills which will allow knitting and crocheting to be more engaging for all of the children.

STEP 1. Draw a picture

STEP 2. Trace it with glue

STEP 3. Lay pieces of yarn in the glue until all if it is covered

STEP 4. When the glue dries, cut the picture up into pieces. Scramble them up and see if you can put it all back together!

here are some of the pictures that we made:


Dajana did this self portrait. She did the hair first and then asked me for, "something skinnier than the hair because the other parts of the face aren't as dark as the hair." We chose the purple yarn because it was the only skinny yarn that wasn't sparkly or brown,"because my face don't sparkle and the face should be a different color than my hair."




I asked Nyauria if she has a favorite animal. She told me that she likes horses best. I suggested that she draw a horse for her puzzle. Nyauria seemed a little worried,and told me " I can think about a horse in my head. But I don't draw one too much." We began talking about the shapes that make up a horse's body and Nyauria drew as we talked. She plans to "make the horse magic with different yarn colors."

Symone and Diamond both made rainbows.


Diamond cut apart the side of her paper and glued it in with the yarn, "to made it like two puzzles. on top of the other one."


I found these three drawings in Alana's cubbie...





We will work more on these later today and it will be exciting to see which of these pictures Alana continues to work with. Or maybe she'll start another one. I am constantly on the lookout for patterns in the children's work because the things that we draw and make repeatedly are important to understand and talk about.