CMC Salida Creative Craft Bar - Thursday, February 13
CMC Salida Brings you Creative Craft Bar with Salida Creativity Lab
Explore your creative side! Gift yourself some creative time! Gather at the 146 Taphouse for the creative Craft Bar. Local artist and creative Tina Gramann of Salida Creativity Lab will guide you through some inspiring thoughts and creative exercises. Then you will jump into a variety of creative crafts you can gift yourself or others. Paint, collage, make! This session includes: heart shaped gift boxes, flower crowns, and personal messages. Make all 3 crafts or focus on one. $25. Register online at: https://coloradomtn.edu/community-education/classes/ Search under Chaffee and Arts.
About Tina: Founder and Artistic Director of Salida Creativity Lab, Tina is an artist, educator, and theatre director. Tina has worked with children for over 20 years, and she is a visual artist focusing on murals, chalk art, window paint, and sometimes photography. Her work has been featured at Salida SteamPlant Paquette Gallery, Crested Butte Center for the Arts Piper Gallery, and Insomnia Gallery in Houston. In theatre, she served as Performing Arts School Director, then Education Director at professional regional theatre Zachary Scott Theatre Center (ZACH) in Austin, Texas for 10 years. She is also a fight choreographer, and served as Resident Fight Choreographer for Austin Shakespeare Company. Tina choreographed fights for Pulitzer winning playwrights Edward Albee New Playwright Workshops as well as Suzan-Lori Parks’ premiere of The Book of Grace. She founded Salida Creativity Lab in 2016- art, theatre, and cultural experiences for the young and the young at heart where she developed Asia Fest and Salida Children’s Pop Up Museum, and directed Mariposa. She is a grant-funded artist from the City of Salida, Think 360 Arts & Colorado Creative Industries Colorado Arts Partnership, Salida Soup, and Support Our Schools Salida. She teaches up to 20 art and/or drama workshops a week at programs such as the Head Start/Salida Early Childhood Center, Crest Academy, Salida Montessori Charter School, Children’s Discovery Ranch, Salida High School Drama Club, and the Boys & Girls Club. She has an MFA in Theatre, and an AAS in Child Development.