I was recently thinking about my lovely experience at a very small school in a tiny village in Sweden, literally in the middle of the forest. There were 13 of us attending the school, some canadian, a couple american, a few romanian, & 1 estonian. What a mix! I hope I’m not missing anybody! Anyway,…
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A LITTLE PEACH JIZZ
Children have no question of “breaking these rules”, so to speak. My daughter was eating butternut squash the other night in a prolific kind of way. I’ve never seen any adult plunge into & devour with such glee a piece of food like she did. Her spoonfuls were heaped 3 times the size of her…
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After one of my folk-singing gigs with Ms. Cara Luft, a member of the audience came up & told me it seemed like I really knew how to “express”. He asked me how I did it, or how I might recommend doing it. Hmm! I found this quite sweet, & the first thing that came…
Read MoreTHE ARCHITECT IN THE MONKEY:
I am realizing that all of these projects I’m doing are involving moving people through space. They are about transformation at it’s essence, moving people into something (be it spacially or experientially), & moving them out, back to where they came from. To me, this is what made architecture at architecture school magic! So, when…
Read MoreCRE8 WITH THE CENTER FOR LATINO POLICY RESEARCH AT UC BERKELEY:
We are thrilled to anounce our second CRE8 at Swarm Gallery in Oakland! This time it will be for the CENTER FOR LATINO POLICY RESEARCH AT UC BERKELY. It just so happens to cooincide with Cesar Chavez Day, & we have some very exciting Latino artists involved! Take a look at the roster! We will…
Read MoreLOVING CAPE TOWN COLLABORATIONS:
I am teaming up with some amazing people in Cape Town, South Africa at an organization called HUDDLEMIND LABS on April 3rd, to feature our product at one of their events. Jon Foster-Pedley will be starting with a talk on Creativity, where we will then launch into the MMA PARTY IN A BOX, to be…
Read MoreMESSY MONKEY ARTS EXPANDS IT’S WINGS!
WE ARE CREATIVE CONSULTANTS: There’s so much going on in the world of MESSY Monkey right now it’s ridiculous! So – basically, we are doing a huge remodel! Messy Monkey Arts Teambuilding is becoming MESSY MONKEY ARTS CREATIVE CONSULTING AGENCY. Yes – we still offer teambuilding. But, we also offer so much more! One of…
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e have a lot of new things shaking at the Monkey. 2 of the most exciting things are: 1 – MORE CRE8’S! 2 – PARTY IN A BOX! I’ve been busy recording the cd to go along with MMA’s PARTY IN A BOX – a $297 kit for anyone ages 5-105 do do Messy Monkey…
Read MoreWe used to have people build on each other’s stories
I just found 2 Stories from some of our early explorations in Messy Monkey Musical Canvas Madness: (thank you to all of your brilliant, creative minds who participated in this!) 🙂 I find it quite fun! 1 person would begin a story & write for 30 seconds to a minute (while the rest of the…
Read MorePossibilities:
We’ve had recent inquiries regarding: Messy Monkey Arts for 750 people at a party on the DeYong lawn. Messy Monkey Arts for 2000 people on Treasure Island. Messy Monkey Arts Downtown, for the city of Chico. Messy Monkey Arts for the city of Lindsay, Ontario, CANADA. Messy Monkey Arts PARTY KITS for kids & adults,…
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