MaryAnn F. Kohl, process art and treasures of childhood

Ebook Give-Away! Join us and enjoy free art ideas and prizes.

Our Facebook group page, Process Art with MaryAnn Kohl, is preparing for yet another give-away of free books! When we reach 600 members, MaryAnn is giving away ten eBooks absolutely free. You simply join the group and post at least one process art idea. That's all there is to it! Of course we'd love for you to be an active member, sharing and learning with us. It's a great group! 

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DECEMBER Holiday ArtsyKidsNEWS 2013

It's December Holiday
ArtsyKidsNEWS time!

Included in the newsletter are 3 winners
of the "1000th Member" Free GiveAway Book Drawing included.

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We reached 1000 members for the ArtsyKidsNEWS!
Celebration Book Give-Away
3 WINNERS are....
1.  Jes Prochaska has won Great American Artists for Kids

2. Nina Watts has won Scribble Art

3. Shirley Oshima has won Mudworks Bilingual Edition 

 

 

 

 

 

Mudworks Bilingual Book Giveaway: 5 WINNERS!

I had a little fun on Facebook in February, offering 5 free Mudworks Bilingual Edition books, randomly drawn to those who signed up. Here are the lucky winners!


Kelly Hambrick Shults
Pamela Barrier
R Scott Wiley
Tracy Halverson
Denise Schock Pannell 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations!!! 

 

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award: from the PragmaticMom blog

I love children's books and how strongly those books can affect the lives of children, increasing their creativity, their learning in general, and their connection to the larger landscape of life. Books breathe life into a child's imagination and offer a stepping stone to a lifelong zest for reading and learning.  

Thanks to The PragmaticMom blog, I am sharing the following list of award winning books that will remind you of books that are worth bringing home from the library or offering as gifts.

 

Reposted from The PragmaticMom blog

http://www.pragmaticmom.com/?p=16387
 

T h a n k  y o u,  PM ! 

Administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was first given to its namesake in 1954. The award, a bronze medal, honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.

Between 1960 and 1980, the Wilder Award was given every five years. From 1980 to 2001, it was awarded every three years. Beginning in 2001, it has been awarded every two years.

Between 1960 and 1980, the Wilder Award was given every five years. From 1980 to 2001, it was awarded every three years. Beginning in 2001, it has been awarded every two years.

 Winners!!

2009: Ashley Bryan

2007: James Marshall

2005: Laurence Yep 

2003: Eric Carle

2001: Milton Meltzer

1998: Russell Freedman

1995: Virginia Hamilton

1992: Marcia Brown

1989: Elizabeth George Speare

1986: Jean Fritz

1983: Maurice Sendak

1980: Theodor S. Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

1975: Beverly Cleary

1970: E. B. White

1965: Ruth Sawyer

1960: Clara Ingram Judson

1954: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in Wisconsin. She became an elementary school teacher, married, and moved to Mansfield, MO, in 1894, where she lived until her death at age 90.

Wilder’s first book, The Little House in the Big Woods (1932), was published when she was 65. It began the story of five-year-old Laura and her family in the Wisconsin woods. Her other publications include Farmer Boy (1933), Little House on the Prairie (1935), On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), and By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939).

Wilder wrote about home and the family primarily to entertain. She was interested in providing her young readers with information on how life was lived by their ancestors. Wilder’s books were not about the country’s leaders; they were about the country’s people.

To view any book more closely at Amazon, please click on image of book.

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with some great art ideas for kids of all ages.
Go to: BRIGHT RING PUBLISHING

Art Book Give-Away * 3 WINNERS ANNOUNCED! *

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 ... and the WINNERS are ... 

Cathy Wilson - Mudworks

 Christina Spencer  - Storybook Art

 Jenna Freck - Great American Artists for Kids 

Winners:
Please send your mailing address to my email
                 maryann@brightring.com
and your books will go out in the mail right away! 

* Note:
The winners were chosen by a blind random drawing 
in the offices of Bright Ring Publishing.
Names or entries of winners or other particpants 
will never be used for any other purpose 
without their express permission. 
 

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! 

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Cathy Wilson said:

I already have your Great Artists books and I use them for my junior high art classes. AND I would love to have MudWorks. As a child, I didn't have much confidence in making art, but I do remember finding a side yard that had been recently seeded. To my ten-year-old mind, it looked like the perfect place to make some designs. I didn't have a clue about seeding! I got shovels and a garden hose, and carved out a beautiful city with bridges and rivers and tunnels and buildings. As I recall, my parents didn't punish me for this, even though it ruined their seeding job. I remember the huge delight of running water through the muddy waterworks!

Christina Spencer said:

MaryAnn, I would love to have a copy of your "StoryBook Art". I'm an Artist and Art Educator trying to develop a curriculum to bring art to all ages at our local Arts Center. They have never had classes for the toddler/preschool age. I'm starting up a class called ARTventures: A Story + Art What a Great Start to an ARTventure! I love the age group! I taught toddlers at a daycare for 4 years and have a 2 year old at home. I was hired at the Arts Center as an on site Artist and Education Coordinator. Your book would give me ideas for so many stories and art projects to play off of! I love the teaching about story telling, visual literacy and illustrators as working artists. I hope that it will inspire them to create their own stories.

Jenna Freck said:

I completely enjoy your books. I'd love to have Great American Artists for Kids - I've checked it out from the library twice and renewed it twice...so many fabulous projects and I love that the kids drew the portraits of the artists! All of your books are awesome. My mom, a very creative soul, was always making things when I was small, and I remember when she put a paintbrush in my hand when I was two, walked me over to my easel, and let me paint away, while my dog Blazer licked my ear, looking over my shoulder. Another time she let me help make huge paper mache animals that were as tall as I was, from the messy mache time to painting the spots on the giraffes she made... Also there was this great after school art class at a studio right at school called "Cloud 9 studio" - where my teacher gave us big balls of clay and we made these cool 'matterhorns' with tunnels that traveled through them, and he'd start a marble at the top and we'd watch in suspense as it traveled to the bottom...endless fun. I remember making tickets for the airplane, and pretending to be a passenger on board, making all of the things you'd need to make the flight comfortable, etc...all creating, imagining... Then when I turned 10, Mom signed me up for an oil painting class with her friend Louise. It was there that I leaned that I loved to paint, and catch facial expression and paint portraits of people, and animals. The rest is history...

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Dear *ALL* Blog Participants ~

How I wish I could give 215 books as prizes, because that's how many childhood memories were shared during this contest! The time you took to go back into your childhood memories and share those moments with us is truly appreciated. I had no idea that your memories would be so powerful and moving. You had me laughing and crying as I read through each one. 

I hope you enjoyed the experience, and if you have time, do read through all the comments because they are inspiring (and entertaining at times)! I think more than anything your memories of your own art experiences as a child remind each of us how important we are in the lives of the children we touch, and how the things we do, the opportunities we offer, the way we interact... it all makes a difference.

We matter!  :)

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Thanks to each and every one of you for participating
and sharing your childhood memories of art!

 

And special congratulations to Cathy, Christina, and Jenna.
I hope you each enjoy your prizes! 

 

 

MaryAnn   
(1950)