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Camp Week 7
ERAS Music & Art Camp It's Taylor Swift week at Slowfire! For 90 minutes a day, students choose, learned and played many songs in Taylor...
alicearreola08
Aug 72 min read
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Camp Week 6
Musicals! Music & Art Camp It's musicals week at Slowfire! For 90 minutes a day, students choose, learned and played a wide range of...
alicearreola08
Aug 72 min read
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Camp Week 5
GRRRRL POWER! Music & Art Camp This week is the week of female empowerment! For 90 minutes a day, students learned and played female...
alicearreola08
Aug 72 min read
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Camp Week 4
POP DIVAS! Art & Music Camp Students has an amazing time building casts for their hands using plaster gauze. Each camper got to choose...
alicearreola08
Aug 72 min read
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Camp Week 3
MUSICALS! Art & Music Camp Campers had a blast creating slab-built vases with sculptural details, accordion-style double drawings with...
noelleallen
Jul 92 min read
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Camp Week 2 June 16-20
What an incredible week we had during Neon Vibes at the Pink House ! Campers dove into bold, creative projects including slab-built bowls...
noelleallen
Jun 242 min read
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June 9-13 Camp Week 1
What a fantastic week we had at Art and Music Camp at the Pink Art House ! Campers brought their imaginations to life with clay guitars,...
noelleallen
Jun 142 min read
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2024 Year in Review
2024: A Year of Creativity and Fun at Slowfire! What a year! In 2024, we taught nearly 2,000 people , with fan-favorite programs like...
noelleallen
Jan 52 min read
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Gingerbread Workshops
Our students had a delightful and creative experience learning to bake and decorate gingerbread houses with Ms. Kristi! First, they got...
noelleallen
Dec 12, 20241 min read
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Support Art, Empower Community!
Support Art, Empower Community! Explore works by Slowfire teaching artists Noelle Allen, Tyler Yocum, Jeny Martinez, and Veronica Fremont...
noelleallen
Dec 12, 20241 min read
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Mondays with Art Club!
Our young artists have been working hard in our after school art club learning about different artists and their methods of art making!...
alicearreola08
Dec 9, 20241 min read
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Harry Potter Birthday Party!
Do you have a birthday coming up? Slowfire can host your birthday party! This past weekend we hosted a 12 year old that enjoys sweet...
noelleallen
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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Teen Ceramics Internship with Youth Crossroads of Berwyn
Ms. Maliya has been leading our Ceramics Internship Program in partnership with Youth Crossroads of Berwyn this fall, where we've teamed...
noelleallen
Oct 27, 20241 min read
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Ceramics at Whittier Elementary: Whittier Wise!
During the Fall 1 semester, Ms. Carrie and Ms. Amy led two Ceramics classes with Slowfire at Whittier Elementary, teaching Grades K-2 on...
noelleallen
Oct 25, 20241 min read
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Fall 1 Real or CAKE?
Our Real or Cake students this session have built, frosted, mixed up and made cake BOOKS! Ms, Kristi has had so much fun teaching this...
noelleallen
Oct 23, 20241 min read
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Slowfire's Amazing Face Painters
Face painting is a vibrant and fun art form where faces become living canvases for creativity! It’s all about transforming a person into...
noelleallen
Sep 16, 20241 min read
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Can Chat GPT help a beginner on the wheel?
Let's ask it! I posed the question: What are the basics of throwing in pottery? I also prompted Chat GPT to focus on body mechanics and...
noelleallen
Sep 11, 20248 min read
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We will, we will RA-KU, RA-KU!
Our adult students, along with one adventurous teen (with a parent in tow), had an incredible outing at Chicago Kiln Service! Guided by...
noelleallen
Sep 7, 20242 min read
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Camp Week 9 Pictures & Video!
Our campers had a wonderful week! Check out pictures from the field trip to Peggy Notebart Nature Museum, images from our campers in Real...
noelleallen
Aug 21, 20241 min read
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Teen Ceramics Membership
Those difficult adolescent years when you're "too old" for a babysitter, but "too young" to fly through life solo. The expectations...
noelleallen
Aug 12, 20242 min read
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