KIDS WORKSHOP – MAY 26, 2012

Who? All youth 6-16 and their parents


When? Saturday May 26th, noon-4pm


How Much? FREE!!

Where? Life in Deep Ellum- 2803 Taylor Street, Dallas, Texas 75226

 

Kids will work alongside professional artists of all different mediums. Including music, paint, pottery, pencil, watercolor, chalk, murals, paper crafts and more… Your child will have an opportunity to play, explore, create and learn!

With so many schools diminishing (or eliminating) art programs, it’s more important than ever to find ways to inspire our youth to think creatively and learn new ways to express themselves positively!

Each artist participating in this workshop is a local, working professional.

Confirmed artist lineup: Cori Berg (Craft), Ashley Jones (Mixed Media), Ixchel Aguilar (Painting), Riley Holloway (Drawing), Jason Kinney (Painting), Eddie Medina (Comics), Harmony White (Water color), Kate Colin (Water color), Jerod Davies (Spray paint collage), Bari Candy (Charcoal/Spraypaint),  Issac Davies (MC), Kelly Nygren (Percussion), DJ Ez Eddie (DJ).

The set-up will be studio, not classroom style. Parents must stay on premises. No need to bring anything but your creativity and excitement!

If you would like to volunteer or are interested in donating art supplies or cash donations for a future Kids Workshop please email: jenn@ artlovemagic.com.

Special ALM thanks to the Just Us League, whose generous donations made this important event possible, as well as Life in Deep Ellum who lovingly provided their awesome venue for this event.

It’s A Grind, we’ll miss you…

Post by David Rodriguez

Photo by Michael Lagocki

FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011, ART & COFFEE IS RELOCATED TO MOKAH LOUNGE 2803 TAYLOR ST. DALLAS, TX 75226  7:30PM – 10:30PM  FREE!!!

It saddens us to have to share that It’s A Grind in Deep Ellum is having to close its doors due to unsustainable profits. On December 11th, 2009, ArtLoveMagic began its new partnership with a bang at It’s A Grind with an introductory event called Fireside Sessions. And since then we had been producing successful monthly events under the heading of Art & Coffee, which was previously branded when we were doing similar monthly events at Saxbys in Farmers Branch. Here are a few moments we would like to share…

Photo by Jenice Johnson

“We’re big Spencer Garland fans around here. Spencer brought out some of his older material that artlovemagic founder Michael Lagocki is crazy for. Great to have him around and hopefully we’ll see more of him now that he’s back in Dallas.” – Art & Coffee February 5, 2010

Photo by Vanessa Bates

“One of the most fun things about Art & Coffee these days is how many local photographers show up with cameras, shooting all the cool stuff that goes down.” – Art & Coffee March 5, 2010

Photo by Scott Dorn

Photo Michael Lagocki

“Art & Coffee is a great first show for artists new to ArtLoveMagic. This was Adele Caunce’s first show with us and her BIG UGLY FISHIES sculptures were a hit with our audience, especially the kids who Adele took the time to teach her technique to.” – Art & Coffee August 6, 2010

Photo by Michael Lagocki

“Parallel Play is one of our favorite local acts. This weekend marked the last shows that banjo player Jason Miers would perform with PP. We were honored that they chose to spend two of their last three shows together with us. Parallel Play will go on with this new lineup: Jeremy Drake, Tomy Lee, and Erin Gayden. Can’t wait to see their new look!” – Art & Coffee December 3, 2010

Photo by Bobby Hitt

“We even pulled a few new tricks out of our sleeve, like a live DJ covering the It’s A Grind’s outside porch area.” – Art & Coffee March 6, 2011

Photo by Bobby Hitt

“One of the highlights of the night was a huge artist jam that went down outside. The team shown above is a pretty impressive lineup of local painters: from the front, Kelsey Kincannon, Daniel Perez, Ixchel Aguliar, and Eddie Walker.” – Art & Coffee March 6, 2011

Photo by Robert Hold

“Art & Coffee has grown to become a regular destination for those who love creativity and hanging out with creative people. In recent months, we’ve expanded the show to cover a second outside stage. It’s given us room to grow and stretch out a bit, while adding new talent and new artforms.” – Art & Coffee June 6, 2011

This is really just a taste of all the incredible memories we’ve collected in such a short amount of time. We appreciate the time we’ve had at It’s A Grind and we are greatfull to have worked along side a wonderful staff and management that supported us all the way. We wish you the very best.

ART & COFFEE WILL STILL BE GOING ON THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011. IT HAS BEEN MOVED TO MOKAH LOUNGE 2803 TAYLOR ST. DALLAS, TX 75226  7:30PM – 10:30PM  FREE.  See you there!

-Dr.

Creative arts open house aims to inspire youth

Story By KATHERINE QUINTERO
Photos By ARAZELI ‘SALLY’ TORRES

Contributor

Dallas nonprofits ArtLoveMagic and Journeyman Ink teamed with Marinela USA to host the Marinela Talent School (MTS), a creative arts open house for Dallas teens, Aug. 6.

More than 100 teens packed the Dallas Theater’s DaVerse Lounge in Deep Ellum for an array of artistic instruction and display. Participants engaged in approximately 15 different creative arts stations such as dance, spoken word, live music, visual arts and hip-hop.

A talented local artist hosted each station, giving instruction and answering questions from the teens.

“More schools are tightening their budgets and eliminating arts programs because of funding,” Marinela USA brand manager Melisenda Barajas said. “We hope through the Marinela Talent School open house, teens are inspired to remain involved in the arts.”

Highlights of the evening included a dance exhibition taught by the MTS dancers, fire painting by Josh Dryk, henna art by Kelly Nygren and a Skate Buds demonstration by a group from the Dallas Boys and Girls Club.

“It’s important that today’s youth continue to participate in the arts,” Barajas said.

“Creative arts programs encourage a healthy form of self-expression while helping teens build self-esteem.”

According to a study by the U.S. Depart- ment of Education, students who are involved in music, dance and art programs do better in math, reading, history, geography and citizenship. Participating in the arts can help children build friendships, increase their desire to set and achieve goals and teach a positive work ethic.

Marinela USA awarded two art scholar- ships at the end of the evening, followed by an opportunity for the teens to showcase their finished artwork and perform their spoken word readings.

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Here is the link to Jen Shu’s photobooth photos:
http://www.pinklightstore.com/Events/Marinelas-EVENT-8611/18410171_bPVVwp#1419234054_m7dkL74

What it’s all about (or… the Guerilla event attacks!)

story by Michael Lagocki
stage photos by ML
artist photos by Kelsey Paine

It worked. Our Guerilla event for Life In Deep Ellum successfully raised the cash needed to help reach their goal.

What’s more is that the night was total bliss. What energy. We were packed from the jump and it never slowed down. Here’s the run down with pics by myself and Kelsey Paine…

The Zachary Scott Pohl Band killed it. They came here fresh on the heels of the release of their new cd (search them on iTunes) and they donated 50% of every copy they sold this night to the venue. More importantly, they rocked our faces off.

The artists were out in force too. More than 10 live artists chose to participate. Everything from handmade jewelry, to floor paintings, to art on skateboard decks, photography, you name it.

At ArtLoveMagic shows, the audience gets to create too. We set up an interactive table where kids and adults got to draw and make Christmas cards.

Don’t forget the poets.
Jay Bookworm wrote a special piece for the night titled, Guerilla Happiness. And then Will Richey and Alejandro Perez blessed the stage with a dynamic spoken word collaborative piece that included two languages, singing, dancing, and gymnastics. Midway through the night, Josh Dryk brought out the fire painting and worked up a thorny rose bush in flame and pigment.

The last stage act of the night was Rin Tin Tin. I didn’t take any photos of them that didn’t come out incredibly blurry… because neither they nor their audience tend to stand still during their shows… at ALL. See that dude floating up in the air? That’s kinda what the whole night felt like.

Throughout the evening the audience’s generosity wowed us. Folks kept hitting the donation jars, buying coffee, buying art. All told we raised somewhere around $1500.

A blessing to be sure and a great way to end the year. Here’s to many more years of Life in Deep Ellum and ArtLoveMagic serving our local creative community.

Free LOOT from ArtLove

Okay… As promised we are giving away some cool free stuff to end the year. First up, a beautiful sterling silver artlovemagic pendant crafted by local jewelers LOVE/WAR designs.

This gorgeous pendant was made by hand, with love, and features our lovemark symbol. It would retail for around $30, but WE ARE GIVING IT AWAY in the next 48hrs.
How do I get one? All you have to do is share a link on facebook/blog/or post about our GUERILLA EVENT Wednesday Night in Deep Ellum.

I know many of you have already posted something (thank you!), but go ahead and do it again as I will draw a name from all those who posted something on TUESDAY DECEMBER 21 or WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 22.

Here is the event posting on facebook

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111759425562373

Here is the event post on our blog

http://artlovemagic.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/guerilla-event/

I need to know you did it to enter your name in the drawing. So tag artlovemagic or send mike@artlovemagic a copy of the post. The winner will be announced Thursday after the event.

ArtLoveMagic founders, and their families are not eligible, BUT EVERYONE ELSE IS. Yes, even the artists and performers in the event. So go to it!

The pendant is really nice. David and Naomi over at LOVE/WAR DESIGNS do fantastic work

Enter as many times as you like, and come join us Wednesday night for an incredible event supporting an incredible cause.

Guerilla Event!

Time	Wednesday, December 22 · 8:30pm – 10:30pm
Location	Life In Deep In Ellum  2803 Taylor Street Dallas, TX
Created By	ArtLoveMagic
More Info	Life in Deep Ellum needs our help. An unexpected financial problem has put them in a short term emergency position. We’re quickly putting together a guerilla art & music event to help.Why? Because Life has undoubtedly been a cultural center that serves as an incubator for music, art, commerce, and community in Deep Ellum. They helped us (artlovemagic) grow and find our footing, as they have helped dozens upon dozens of locals realize their dreams for community work and creativity.What? One night. Two hours. Art, Music, and Giving. BRING CASH. Buy a coffee, make a donation. Watch some live art (awesome) listen to some live music (awesome awesome).  How can I help? 1- Live artists are needed. Contact mike@artlovemagic.com (send samples if I haven’t seen your work). 2- Buzz is needed. Share this invite. Post a blog. Bring a crew of friends out. Please help us get attendees. This will be a truly fun experience. It always feels good to help someone in need, particularly when you’re talking about a crew who’s done as much for our neighborhood as LIFE. SCHEDULED TO PERFORM: the Zach Scott Pohl Band, Rin Tin Tin, Melody Hay, Eddier Walker, Kelsey Kincannon, Alexandra Quinn, Jennifer Portz, and more. Can’t attend?- you can make a paypal donation here- http://www.lifeindeepellum.com/paypal.htm RSVP at facebook here – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111759425562373

the beauty of the night: artlovemagic’s 2010 Holiday show

photos by Kelsey Paine
text by Michael Lagocki

I wanted to share some more photographs from the Holiday party. It was a truly special night (even in an organization that has many special nights). If you missed it, I wanted to give you a chance to see more of what it was like…

The first thing you have to understand is the decorations. Producer Mario Cauley and his team went to new levels, hanging thousands of lights and and transforming, Life in Deep Ellum, a venue we are all familiar with after so many shows, into something that felt fresh and uniquely made as a gift to us. With huge snowflakes hanging, presents wrapped, and a sea of white lights, it really felt like a wonderland.

The lounge microphone hosted a series of local musicians who performed both traditional holiday songs and originals of their own. Mario invited some of his favorite musicians from the shows, including Elle (above) to share the seasonal love.

Artists like Lawrence Alexander, Sarah Zamora, Khalid Robertson, and Samax Amen brought that live artist energy to the evening. There were also interactive art supplies (including handmade playdough) so that everyone could be an artist.

It was the little touches that created the environment where all this happened. Co-producers Curtis Fesser and Marissa Colomo paid attention to every detail from table settings, to giant snowflakes, to color coordination in every room. It was really amazing and we’re already talking about taking some of what this team built and applying it to other artlovemagic events. 

Of course there were plenty of sweets to hype of the kids. An invitation to attendees to bring desserts yielded a sweets bar that was filled with all kinds of delicious. Plus Don Yemington and crew cooked a meal fit for kings and queens. We all ate well.

You gotta mix it up a bit, so halfway through the night we all went outside to see fire painter Josh Dryk light up the dark sky. (it was too cold to do this for long!)Photographers Jen Shu and Sherry Muldoon brought a festival setup out and took free portraits of attendees and their families. See the next 2 posts below for those images (or go to Jen’s site to see all 400+ and order prints).

It was a blessed evening. While tons of time went into set up, tear down, selecting the performers, their preparation and everything else it took to put this event together… the truth is that what the night ended up being about the most was just simple interactions. People sitting down and talking with fellow artists or performers they hadn’t seen in a while. Old friends getting together, families being introduced.

We loved the whole experience and congratulate the production team. Thank you to everyone involved.

Kids Music Workshop

This morning, ArtLoveMagic hosted its first ever kids music workshop.  While we’ve done this with visual art before, this was the first time we were able to do it for music.

The workshops are in partnership with the Deep Ellum Foundation and special thanks goes to Jeanne Blanton who made a donation to specifically underwrite them.

Deborah Driscoll–ArtLoveMagic’s music director–arranged the day.  The kids were in groups of 5 and they rotated through 20 minute classes. The directive was simple.  Do something that inspires and make sure it is hands on.

Kelly Nygren taught percussion.  Not only did she have multiple instruments for each of the students to try, but she also taught us that we all have rhythm in our pulse, heartbeat and breathing.  She showed us that anything could be an instrument, and she made waterbottles filled with rice that the kids could take with them as shakers.

As it was, the shakers turned out handy in Tony Cherry’s songwriting class.  Not only did the groups learn to write songs through word associations, descriptions, and daily life stories, but in a couple of classes they pulled out the shakers and sang along.

In guitar class, we learned about the difference in electric and acoustic, the different parts of the guitar and about chords.  We also learned to “play loud and play proud.”

Melody Cherry taught us how to breathe in order to use our bodies as instruments.  After some warm up and practice at holding notes, the kids were able to get onstage with the microphone and perform.

In Ms. Delphi’s piano class, there were three keyboards and we learned that “Jack and Jill” (the two black keys close together) were near C, D, E and the “Three Little Pigs” (three black keys together) were next to F, G, A, B.

Isaac Davies taught about how Hip Hop started from sampling records and how those samples are linked together to make new music.  The kids were albe to play with the sampler and Isaac even taught a bit about freestyling and showed off his skills.

After the classes, the students had pizza, then when that group left, the others arrived and teachers and volunteers set up to do it all again.

Many thanks to Life in Deep Ellum for providing the venue, all the teachers and volunteers who walked kids from class to class, set up chairs and made sure even the most timid weren’t left out.

For ArtLoveMagic, days like this are about passion.  As public schools are cutting art and music programs, we are becoming stronger and stronger advocates for the power of the arts.  We all remember our own introduction to paints, instruments, color and song.  We are brighter more beautiful people because of it and it was very, very fun to share that.

–Cathy Hutchison

note- we’d also like to extend thanks to Jeanne Blanton, The DEF, and Mayor Pro Tem Caraway’s staff for supporting this event.

New artlovemagic videos

So many cool things happen at our shows. Very few get captured (something I’d really like to improve upon). Here are two good videos shot at recent artlovemagic shows that I wanted to bring some attention to. 

The first is a capture of the piece that artist C. Kirk created live at our Underground show (1/31 at SouthSide on Lamar). Kirk uses a stencil and spray technique and incorporates some pretty cool imagery, like comic book characters paired with global corporate logos. The music on this piece is by dj36t and Goat. This video comes from the good folks at Pegasus News.

The second is from our Illuminate show (4/11 at Life in Deep Ellum). This is local rapper Playdough tearing it up on our stage. Illuminate was the first show that we had this level of stage set-up and lighting on, and bringing in Playdough (who both Mike and Dave are big fans off) was a real treat. This video was shot by Nicole Rodriguez. 

Many more videos of artists and musicians creating live at our shows can be seen in the video gallery of www.artloveamgic.com.

And if you shoot or chop- we’re always looking for good videos of our stuff. Write david@artlovemagic.com for details.

posted by Michael Lagocki