Studio 84 Inc. Whitewater Wisconsin

Community Connections

Girl Scouts

Artist and student at Studio 84, J Austin Pena recently held a workshop with a local girl scout troup. Austin discussed his disabiltiy, Director Deborah Blackwell discusses other disabilties with the group. Austin then taught the girls how to tie dye t shirts. They also used a headstick to paint a note card.

Peace Camp 2011

Peace camp is a unique camp designed to assist children ages 5-12 grow in their understanding and skills in building a more peaceful and united world. Held at Craveth Lakefront Community Center, students learned peace making skills and conflict resolution through skits, cooperative games, music, creative writing and art.

Students at the camp walked over to Studio 84 to do an art related project. Here they created expressions of themselves as individuals and wrote their thoughts about peace and unity.
Each piece was strung together to create The Unity Garland. The Unity Garland represents individuals united together with acceptance of each others differences.

Sponsors of the camp are: St. Patrick Church of Whitewater, UUU Society of Mukwonago, Studio 84 of Whitewater and
Whitewater Parks and Recreation.

The Unity Garland will be on display at Studio 84 during the month of August. Studio 84 is open 10-5 Tuesday through Friday and is located at 121 W. Center St. in Whitewater.

Check out these area arts organizations

Whitewater Arts Alliance

Young Auditorium

Crossman Gallery

Walkers Point Center for the Arts

Roberta A. Fiskum Art Gallery

Art Working in Madison

Fort Atkinson Arts Council

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Walworth County Today

Weekender

Janesville Gazette

Wisconsin State Journal

Royal Purple

Community Shoppers

Discover Magazine

Whitewater Press

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Happy Holly Days Photo Gallery December 5, 2009 Visitors to Studio 84 decorated cookies and donated them to Twin Oaks Homeless Shelter in Delavan. Visitors also learned to make origami ornaments!

UW-Whitewater Creative Writing Class

Taught by Andrea Musher the class came to the Studio to present their final writings for class. Several members of the community, parents and friends came to listen and participate.


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2011 Big Read

Participants learned about creating mono prints inspired by Edgar Alan Poes writing.

2011 Whitewater Arts Alliance Public Arts Project

A group of students from Janesville School District CHOICE Program participated in the creation of a lantern. On display through the summer in downtown Whitewater the lantern they created has a theme of a spring landscape including flowers, grass, the sky and sun.

James, Madeline, Linda, Molly, Lyndsey, Austin, Andrea, Nikki, Michael and Sean.

The creation of puppets took about 2 hours. Everybody helped.

The beginning of the scenery on the puppet stage.

Puppet Workshop & Theater

Four UW-W students from Small Group Communications class volunteered to do a puppet theater workshop. Five Studio 84 students participated along with volunteer Lyndsey, a UW-W art ed student who is a regular volunteer here. After several hours of puppet making and scene painting, they presented The 3 Pigs to an audience. They all collaborated together and put on a fine performance of The Three Little Pigs.

Washington School Visits Studio 84

One hundred fourth and fifth grade students from Washington School in Whitewater visited Studio 84 on two different days.

After a tour and discussion about the Prairie Tillers Mural on the side of the building, they viewed the exhibit in conjunction with the Big Read on Mexican Art. Discussion afterwards with lots of questions from students along with a Surrealism art game called the Exquisite Corpse was enjoyed by all.

Art teacher, Kim Carlson, put together a wonderful video of the event. Click on the above photo to view the video.

Head Start Visits Studio

Local Head Start class with teacher Paula Nees takes a tour of the gallery during the Mexican Art Exhibit in 2010. Special guest artist Emiliano Lake-Herrera showed them how to create collaborative fanciful creatures with a Surrealistic Artist game called the Exquiste Corpse.

BIG READ

Big Read 2010 Workshop was a success! Participants read a childrens version of one of the short stories in the Big Read book, Sun Stone & Shadows-20 Mexican Short Stories. They collaborated on the theme of Waves, Mexican Culture and Surrealism
and wrote their own play!

Click here for photos of the
2009 Big Read Workshop.