• Enrichment Center Advice for Royal Baby George

    The EC artists followed the royal pregnancy in its final weeks, wondering when the baby would come, and if it would be a boy or girl… a king or queen. When a baby boy was born to William and Kate in July 2013, the EC artists wondered about the kind of person he would grow…

  • “Brave, but foolish,” said the Sphinx

    In late May 2013, the Enrichment Center Theatre Arts component completed production of it’s “theatrical trailer” for Ed the King, a take on Oedipus Rex.   James Brizendine………… Ed the King Hilda Cotta………………….Tiresias, the Blind and Wise Ivan Hernandez……………The Sphinx Eric Thompson…………….Young Ed Jose Miguel Castaneda…. First Man at the Sphinx / Young Ed’s Father Richard…

  • Paint-Your-Own Pottery 2013

    Our Art for the Heart workshops were so popular, with participants reporting so much enjoyment from the experience that we decided to start a   new project:  Paint-Your-Own Pottery workshops.30407_PYOP_flyer_dads_02 Just in time for Mother’s Day! The Enrichment Center will be hosting two pottery painting workshops at the Multicultural Arts Center, 645 W. Main St.…

  • Self Portrait

    The visual arts class, led by current teacher/dcs Cristal Flores, is coming to the close of a weeks-long study of the artist’s greatest critique– the self portrait.  It is safe to say that every visual artist makes at least one self portrait during their career.  We might go farther to say that most visual artists…

  • Art for the Heart: Pick-up Schedule

    Thanks to all who participated in our Art for the Heart fundraiser for community heart health.  We raised $1200 for the Mercy Foundation to use for the Cardiac Rehab Department.  The funds will help people with heart disease, who do not have a funding source to pay for their rehabilitation. The exhibit was up at…

  • Project: Art for the Heart

    FINAL PHASE: Installation of Exhibit. Look at all of them! These were loaded and fired by our awesome Ceramic Instructor Kristine Hansen! She unloaded and boxed them to be ready for ribbon, storing, transporting and installing for the exhibit space. With the completed hearts out of the kiln, it was time to prepare for installation…

  • Project: Art for the Heart

    Phase 5:  Hearts on Fire… Into the Kiln 1830° is too hot to cook James and Shirley’s peanut butter cookies, but it is the perfect temperature for firing our glazed hearts. It takes an entire day of carefully orchestrated adjustments to bring the kiln up to that temperature.  By the end, a view through a…

  • Project: Art for the Heart

    Phase 4:  The Art of Healthy Choices Those of us who have the ability to control the factors that go into our personal health and well-being, should be grateful for that freedom.  We should take advantage of it, and make the best choices possible. Many of the artists of the Enrichment Center (EC), and others…

  • Project: Art for the Heart

    Phase 3:  “Glazing” is painting… Technically, you’re painting a coating of silica-based fluid (glaze), which, when fired in the kiln, will fuse to the surface of the clay heart… now you know why we just refer to it as glazing. When you spend as many hours as we do surrounded by art, making art, promoting…

  • Project: Art for the Heart

    PHASE 2:  COLLABORATE! Putting the pieces together is difficult when your partnership doesn’t yet have partners.  We knew we wanted to work with Mercy Medical Center, but we didn’t have any contacts there.  Our good friends Monika Modest and Melissa Kelly-Ortega came to our rescue, providing awesome contacts.  Now we’re collaborating! We wanted to work…