• 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…

  • 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…