Color Wheels – Ornamento

Toddlerpalooza!

By: ornamento.blog April 27, 2023April 25, 2023

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I had to volunteer for Toddlerpalooza if only because I loved the name. Sponsored by the Barnes Foundation, Toddlerpalooza was an event for young children to try their hand at making art. I was there with ColorWheels community art program run by Fleisher Art Memorial.

Our project involved gluing pieces of colored paper to pre-cut shapes.

We brought plenty of paper and glue sticks,

Making a painter’s palette seemed appropriate.

Giant Lego looked like fun.

Daniel Tiger made an appearance.

As did The Clay Studio. Who doesn’t like to play in mud?

There was also a balloon artist. I got this mouse for Boris.

Flag Day in Philadelphia

By: ornamento.blog June 16, 2022June 15, 2022

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I volunteered for another Color Wheels last weekend and the theme was Flag Day. We parked the Color Wheels van outside the Museum of the American Revolution, and set up tables with art supplies and blank flags to decorate.

Now you might wonder what Flag Day is and why we celebrate it in the United States. Even though we didn’t have an official flag when the Revolutionary War, started, the Continental Congress soon got around to designing one in 1775. Legend has it that Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag, right here in Philadelphia. Some say that this story originated with some tall tales perpetrated by her relatives in the 1870’s. There is a paper trail showing that she was contracted to sew flags for the US government in 1777. More information here. The Betsy Ross house, where Ross purportedly lived when she sewed the flag, is only a few blocks from the Museum of the American Revolution.

Most of the people who dropped by to make flags were from out of town. And interestingly, I didn’t see many kids try to reproduce the American Flag. A couple of flags I recognized were the flag of Suriname, and the flag of Israel.

Do you see a flag in the pictures that you recognize?

To learn more about Fleisher Art Memorial, who sends the Color Wheels van all over Philadelphia, press here.

Happy Halloween from Gold Star Park

By: ornamento.blog October 28, 2021October 26, 2021

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I was back with Color Wheels this weekend helping kids to decorate Halloween trick or Treat bags in Gold Star Park in South Philly. We had quite a crowd! It was nice to see people out and about on a beautiful Autumn day.

Drawing Bridges at Cherry Street Pier

By: ornamento.blog July 22, 2021July 19, 2021

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I went to Cherry Street Pier with the Color Wheels gang last week. It was the first Color Wheels outing I’ve been on for more than a year,

The art project was drawing the Ben Franklin Bridge which is right next to Cherry Street Pier.

It’s not an easy task to draw a suspension bridge, even with an army of erasers and rulers. But lead artist Maureen Duffy helped a lot of people tackle the project and walk away with drawings. Here are some I got to photograph.