• Project: Art for the Heart

    PHASE 1: Preparing Clay Hearts Pounding, rolling, slabbing.  Cutting, smoothing, drying.  In late November 2012, the artists of the Enrichment Center began preparing clay hearts for a project to promote health and wellness in the New Year. Sadly, most of us have lost someone we care about to a heart-related illness.  The New Year is…

  • Let’s Stay Together by Jose Miguel Castaneda

    Let’s Stay Together by Jose Miguel Castaneda That is a link to Jose Miguel’s song “Let’s Stay Together” on SoundCloud.com.  Back in June 2012, Jose Miguel, a lover of love, began writing a romantic, love song. In August, he wrapped it up, and recorded it with the assistance of the teacher of our Music component,…

  • Sgraffito Tiles

    Sgraffito is a clay decoration technique involving a combination of painting with colored slip and scratching the surface of the clay.  The EC Artists’ sgraffito work began with tiles, as part of a unit in slabbing clay.  The result was a large collection of sgraffito tiles which the artists agreed would be good as coasters…

  • Summer Exhibit 2012

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhlAiWjQzSM&feature=youtu.be

  • Explorations in Green

    Koi Saechao has been an artist with the Enrichment Center for 8 years. When teachers ask her what color she wants to begin her palette, Koi always begins with “green”.  Each additional color she asks for is also “green”.  This might seem like a limitation– a one color palette, but it is not.  Everything can…