Charlene's Glitter Paintings

Charlene recently started to incorporate glitter into her paintings.
In photos: Charlene and her paintings.

November Recap

We've been busy this month at the Cultural Arts Center! We created some homemade costumes for Halloween, worked on a new splatter painting with Stanley, and listened to a lecture on the photographs of Andy Warhol as part of our Cultural Collaborations series with LaSalle University Art Museum.

In photos: Charlene, Emilia, Freddy, Floyd, Jason, Myron, Danny, Val, Anni, Rasheed, Pietro, and Mike; Jason, Pietro, Mike and Charlene; Anni and Stanley; Anni, Stanley, and Emilia; and Museum Educator Miranda Clark-Binder with her audience.

Ofrenda

Today we began our ofrenda in honor of the Day of the Dead. We will be celebrating the Day of the Dead by making notes and pictures of people we miss, like Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze and Murph's dog Sadie. Our ofrenda will feature papel picados, lights, fake fruit and flowers.

In photos: Helen, Danny, George, Pietro, Mike, Rasheed, Hubert, Sharay, and Mike S.

Dwayne on Channel Six

Check out Dwayne's segment on Channel 6!

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video?id=7080184

Channel 6

Today Channel 6 came by PDDC to interview Dwayne about his new Phillies series in the Fehr Lobby, thanks to the news tip by Bonnie Squires. Dwayne created a number of paintings of Phillies players in preparation for the World Series. The news team interviewed Dwayne as he painted the Phillies Phanatic. The segment is supposed to air tonight at 5:30 pm.

In photos: Dwayne, the reporter Brian, the camera man John, and the curator Mike Gerkovich.

Pals for Life

We had another wonderful visit from Pals For Life today. We met the kitten, Marshmallow, Granite the dog and Caramel the bunny.

In photos: David and Charles with Caramel, Rasheed with a pals for life volunteer, Murph, Kay, Marshmallow and Myesha, Myesha with Granite, and Brenda petting Marshmallow.

Trip to La Salle

We visited La Salle University Art Museum and enjoyed a tour of their collection of landscape paintings with Museum Educator Miranda Clark-Binder. This was the first of four museum visits through our program Cultural Collaborations.

In photos: Mike S., Miranda, Casimer, Hector, Charles and Freddy.