Create A Space
In 2022 Twirl worked with our community partners on a project exploring the connections between our feelings and the spaces we inhabit. In this program, kids are asked to think about all the different feelings they can have and make mood meters describing how they feel (We can have many feelings at once! Feelings come and go! There are no wrong feeling!). They take this exploration and create a space that reflects their feelings or supports them when they are feeling a certain way. The results of this project have been totally inspiring! We have all enjoyed having space to explore our feelings and to get creative Twirl style. We have also learned some STEAM skills by adding moving parts and a circuit with a working light to our projects. It is Social Emotional and STEAM learning all wrapped up in a box!
Leading up to The Paseo 2022, we continued this project in a modified version with community groups and School events. The art installation that we developed for the nights of the Paseo grew from our experience with this project and the awesome creativity of our community. We hosted FREE Family Create A Space Events at Twirl , The Harwood Museum and Questa Public Library.
If you are interested in a CAS workshop In the upcoming school year for your classroom or community group, contact Liana.
See twirltaos.org/paseo for more information about the Paseo.
See our photo album from Create A Space at the Paseo on facebook
The Twirl Create A Space project is made possible through funding and sponsorships from Ed and Amy Jaramillo, the Robert T. Keeler Foundation, LANL Foundation, Triad National Security, Llc, Taos Community Foundation and Randall Lumber and Hardware. Thank you!
Thank you to Taos KIDS AND FAMILIES for sharing their feelings, moods and creative process and the or creative contribution to our installation
Our School and Community Partners Include:
Youth Heartline, Taos Behavioral Health, Arroyos Del Norte Elementary, Taos Pueblo Day School, Enos Garcia Elementary, Ranchos Elementary, Questa Library, Anansi Charter School, Peñasco Elementary, Dixon Library True Kids 1 and The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos Charter School, Taos County Head Start Programs,, Nature’s Niños, UNM Kids Campus and Little Bug, Frances Romero, Alison McPartlon, Sarah Candelaria, Michael Noll, Taylor Harrison, Paula Oxoby-Hayett
Box Painters & Exhibit Production Volunteers:
Katie Woodall, Leah Sobol, Lesley Morgan, Emily Mendez, Casandra Romero, Sonya Struck, Isabella O’Donnell-Silfverberg and Connie White
Celia and Sophie Sturges
Melissa Cserhat
Mo Kaluta
Grey LeGere
Sound System: Howie Roemer
Tall Stuff: Will Martin
Part Sorters: Helen Henry, Paxton Henry, Nathan, Marielle Gomez, Oliver Ballard Isabella O’Donnell- Silfverberg, Ilan O’Donnell- Silfverberg, Kellen Emory-Crowther, Nia Emory-Crowther, Gray Thomas
Creative materials generously provided by:
Tufted Chair
Linda’s Upholstery
Community Against Violence
Wemagination
The many, many shoe stores that donated hundreds of shoe boxes
Wolfgang Spa Works for cardboard!
