Sign up to sell your art at Shadybrook event

Holiday gift shopping at its best: no snow!

Purchase (or sell) made-by-hand arts & crafts and coupons for services by Cleveland area talent. No booth fee but a 15% commission, and bring item for the potluck salad bar. More information at www.shadybrook.org under "events".

Sellers: download and print mail-in registration form below. Call 216-556-5683 for information or use email below.

Attendees may register or ask questions by email or phone: programs@shadybrook.org.

Must register to attend or to sell by July 5. Only registered guests of Shadybrook gain admittance, so be sure to register by July 5th!

Location: Elmwood Cabin in Elmwood Park, 600 Elmwood Rd., Rocky River OH 44116

When: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Rain or Shine!

Live music! Musicians and entertainers: Use the form below to sign up and share your music. Wellness practitioners: sell coupons for treatments.

Play area for children.

There is no fee to attend, but bring money to shop! (Cash or checks accepted.)

Art Classes for Children, Cleveland area, East Side

******* Art Smarts *******

There are very few activities parents and children can do together where both parent and child are equally challenged, equally experiencing something new, and equally vulnerable. Such a sharing between parent and child creates new bonds of closeness, awareness, and understanding of each for the other.

All ages, from five up, can do these drawing-based exercises. No one is looking at the paper while making marks on paper to correspond to their eye movement as they observe the edges of a wide variety of objects. Since you are not looking at the paper, you are not responsible for how the drawn image looks! This process is both a beginning drawing lesson and a way to access the relaxation response, an important function that brings inner peace, awareness of others, and personal empowerment to manage everyday difficulties. Yes, children can do it. (So can moms and dads.)

Learn easy exercises for connecting with the world and with each other.

Experiential: do the exercises, feel the results.

Useful: Learn a technique to do at home, in the car, while waiting in lines, to help change mood.

Ages 5 and up. At least one parent must accompany children.

TIME: Saturday, April 18, 9:00 to 10:30

COST: $15 per family

LOCATION: Chagrin Falls Middle School Library, 342 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls, OH 44022

INSTRUCTOR: Kristen Boyesen

REGISTER: Call 440-247-5375 - (Voice Message 24 Hours a Day.) Leave your name, phone number, course title (Parent-Child Bonding), and if you are a resident or non-resident. You will be contacted for further information.

Kristen Boyesen is a Life Learning and Creativity Coach, member of COSE, Cleveland Coach Federation, American Holistic Medical Association and Eldercare Professionals of Ohio. She has over twenty years’ experience as an art instructor and exhibits her art in galleries in New York and Ohio. She is pursuing graduate studies in Art Therapy at Ursuline College.

Beginning Art classes, Cleveland area

Active Imagination Interactive Workshop

Have you always wanted to be creative? Are you jealous of those who can draw? Are you "bad" at drawing stick figures?

This class is for you. Awaken your hidden creativity. This class will prepare the way for you to discover your hidden artistic creative self.

Experience “aha’ moments, ignite creativity and feel a sense of community through meditative practices, word games and interaction with percussive instruments. Learn an easy meditative drawing (without looking) technique for inner peace, wellness, and activating intuition. Short lectures are followed by instruction, practice, and group discussion.

Excite, feed and retrain your brain.
Let go and be free.

Materials are included. No art, writing, or musical experience necessary. (Follow-up advanced classes are available on request.)

TIME: Saturday, April 25, 9:00 AM to Noon

COST: $22

LOCATION: Chagrin Falls Middle School Library, 342 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls, OH 44022

INSTRUCTOR: Kristen Boyesen

REGISTER: Call 440-247-5375 - (Voice Message 24 Hours a Day.) Leave your name, phone number, course title (Active Imagination), and if you are a resident or non-resident. You will be contacted for further information.

Art Classes, Greater Cleveland

Due to the snow and ice, parking and access to the Bedford studio site is difficult. Classes are on hold until the weather warms.

Meanwhile, art classes are mobile.

Need a guest instructor or teacher for a series of classes? Call (two one six) 577-9874. Kristen Boyesen has over twenty years experience as a private art instructor, guest lecturer, artist-in-residence, and/or college adjunct art instructor.