Duarte uses a younger version of himself to tell the story of how he navigates through the creative community. Young Duarte goes in and out of portals through dreams that can be followed with folklore. Come along with young Duarte as he goes to CMA.
If an artwork could talk, what story do you think it would tell?

Gather your pencils and paper plus any boxes, toy soldiers, game pieces, or toys to create your world. We will explore folklore, and use these props to tell your own story. The wonder of creating folklore, is that you can start with your own experience. Your imagination is the key to making an adventure come to life.

What kind of character are you? What costume would you wear? What time period would you experience? What age would you be? What powers would you possess? How would you like your story to unfold?

After you collect these items, you can set up your space. Move things around until you’re happy with how they look. Create your character and have fun in your space.

Find a CMA Studio Challenge that speaks to you and share your creations on social media by tagging #myCMAstudio.

Pick up a Studio in a Box with all the supplies and materials needed to aid you in our weekly challenges or allow our CMA educators to guide kids 1- 8th grade in a free online Studio Workshop.
#myCMAstudio is a digital version of our drop- in program, Open Studio. Which is currently unavailable to the public due to Covid-19, and part of CMA’s JPMorgan Chase Center for Creativity Studio to explore ideas, solve creative challenges, and collaborate with friends and family.
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Artwork and prompt created by Richard Duarte Brown in partnership with Art in House by the Ohio Alliance of Art Education.

— Richard Duarte Brown, known as Duarte, is a master artist with the TRANSIT ARTS Youth Arts Program and the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education’s Art in the House Program. For more than 30 years, Duarte has dedicated his talents to helping young people in Columbus, Ohio through countless programs including CAPACITY (CAPA’s Youth Arts Program), the Short Stop Youth Center, the King Arts Complex, Ohio Alliance for Arts Education (and formerly GCAC’s) Artists-in-Schools program, GCAC’s Children of the Future, Ebony Boys, Art Safe and VSA Ohio. More than my Brother’s Keeper, Duarte has also worked as a high school art instructor at the Arts and College Preparatory Academy in Columbus. Currently, he serves as a resident artist for Whitehall City Schools and Berne Union Schools in the Village of Sugar Grove, Ohio. His murals can be seen throughout the city, bringing comfort and inspiration to countless viewers.

I love picture books even though I haven’t been a kid in a long time. What I love most are all the different ways that artists use materials to create pictures that help tell a story. Some artists create illustrations using paint, pastel chalks, ink, markers, paper and even fabrics. When children are too young to read they will often look at the pictures or illustrations in a book to tell the story. The pictures usually include images that hint at what the words are on the page. 

The picture I created is a memory from my childhood of summers spent at my grandmothers, playing outdoors and having lots of fun. How can you tell the season in my picture? How are the children dressed? What do the colors tell you? My picture was created with construction paper, bits of paper towel for the clothing and a magazine clipping to make the sun. I decided to use simple shapes for my picture.

What are some of your own memories that you could illustrate? Maybe a favorite book, family trip, holiday or funny pet story. Come up with your own illustration that tells a story of one of your favorite memories. 

Suggested Materials:
Construction paper 
Magazine 
Napkin or paper towel
Glue stick
Scissors 

Find a CMA Studio Challenge that speaks to you and share your creations on social media by tagging #myCMAstudio. 

#myCMAstudio is a digital version of our drop-in program, Open Studio, which is currently unavailable to the public due to Covid-19, and part of CMA’s JPMorgan Chase Center for Creativity Studio to explore ideas, solve creative challenges, and collaborate with friends and family. 

Pick up a Studio in a Box with all the supplies and materials needed to aid you in our weekly challenges or allow our CMA educators to guide kids 1- 8th grade in an online Studio Workshop. 

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Artwork and prompt created by Wendy Kendrick in partnership with Art in House by the Ohio Alliance of Art Education. 

Wendy is heavily influenced during the early part of her artist career by the work of Romare Bearden, she has applied her years of work with collage and mixed media to her current work with quilted portrait masks.

In 2010 Kendrick was selected by the Arts Council Lake Erie West to travel to the East African country of Tanzania as a U.S. delegate for a women’s artist exchange. In addition, she was invited to speak to college students regarding her artistic journey at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam.

Kendrick received her B.A. in Visual Studies from Dartmouth College and has furthered her studies through additional coursework taken at the Dayton Art Institute, Columbus College of Art and Design and Quilt Surface Design Symposium (QSDS). Her work has been featured at the King Arts Complex, Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery at Sinclair Community College (Dayton, Ohio), Star Arts Gallery, Ohio Craft Museum, the Rhodes Office Tower, Joyce Gordon Gallery (Oakland, California), The Shot Tower Gallery and Richard M. Ross Art Museum (Delaware, Ohio). Her work appears in the recent publications, the Columbus Book Project, Yours for Race and Country: Reflections on the Life of Colonel Charles Young and Visioning Human Rights in the New Millennium. Currently Kendrick serves as Lead Artist with the Art in the House Program(OAAE sponsored) at St.Stephens Community House and Windsor Stem Academy.

Have you ever played Telephone — when someone whispers in your ear and you pass the message along? The game of Exquisite Corpse, invented by a playful group of artists who called themselves Surrealists, is similar. You begin drawing, then let a partner add to it. Like a ripple effect, how will the artwork change as it passes between you? 

Ask someone at home with you to be your partner. (If you’re patient, you can even collaborate on this challenge through the mail.) Then gather tools to draw or paint, and fold a piece of paper into thirds.  

The top piece of the paper is all yours. Imagine that this drawing could become a person, and you’re starting with the “head”. But it doesn’t have to be a human one — it could be the head of an animal, or a robot, or a funny-shaped cloud, just to name a few. When you’ve finished, hand the paper over to your partner to pick up where you left off. Imagine that you’re adding a “torso” to this body. What things will you choose to continue, and what will you change? Could you bring in a new color, or a different kind of tool to draw with? For an additional challenge, trade drawings without looking at what your partner has previously drawn.

Finally, hand the paper back to Partner #1 to complete the “legs” or “feet” of this creation. Step back and admire the Exquisite Corpse you made together. What kind of body did you create?

Find a CMA Studio Challenge that speaks to you and share your creations on social media by tagging #myCMAstudio. 

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Emma Brown is an artist and photographer from a nice cornfield in Pennsylvania. She works in Visitor Experience for Columbus Museum of Art and can be found sleeping in and looking at photographs on her days off. emmabrownmakesart.com @instagrandmabrown

#myCMAstudio is a digital version of our drop- in program, Open Studio. Which is currently unavailable to the public due to Covid-19, and part of CMA’s JPMorgan Chase Center for Creativity Studio to explore ideas, solve creative challenges, and collaborate with friends and family. 

Pick up a Studio in a Box with all the supplies and materials needed to aid you in our weekly challenges or allow our CMA educators to guide kids 1- 8th grade in an online Studio Workshop.