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Everyone loves a parade and Ordway Center's Flint Hills International Children's Festival is throwing one Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 1:00 pm.
The Festival parade, ARTmoves, began with the idea of creating wearable, moveable art pieces from everyday objects and has evolved into a collection of art in motion. Journey through the Festival grounds in the ARTmoves Parade with giant puppets, kites, flags, music, ARTbikes, or any creation you dream up.
You and your students can become art in motion! In partnership with Ordway Center, create an ARTmoves Parade unit with your classroom, after school program, or community group. Collaborate with an artist to dream up a concept and work as a team to create your unit of performance art.
Festival activities are accessible and interested youth participate in free community workshops with Twin Cities artists to prepare for the parade. In these workshops, bikes and other materials are supplied by Ordway Center and community partners. Children and families are able to decorate their bikes, trikes, scooters, wagons, puppets, for the Parade and Festival, and then keep their art and bikes when the Festival is finished. Families are also invited to create their own ARTmoves pieces at home.
2008 Parade Participants
Community Based Parade Residencies
- Hallie Q Brown and MLK worked with Resident artist Tou Cha to create large insect puppets with after school program participants.
- Spencer House and Free Arts Minnesota worked with resident artist Joe Iverson their own RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS parade unit.
- Neighborhood House worked with Program Coordinator Dudley Vogt to create aerosol art on T-shirts, hats, and shoes.
- West 7th Community Center worked with resident artist Gita Ghei to create a globe with copper continets and orbiting stars and planets.
- Merrick Community Center worked with resident Artsist Gustavo Boada to create Parade puppets.
- Homecroft Elementary worked with resident artist Mary Plaster to create a large Mascot Eagle Puppet.
- Center for Hmong Arts and Talent worked with resident artist Malia Burkhart to create larger than life puppets wearing traditional Hmong clothing with youth at CHAT.
- Hancock Recreation Center worked with resident stilting artist Mark Safford who taught fifth and sixth grade after school participants how to stilt as well as construct their own pair of stilts.
- North Dale Recreation Center worked with resident artist Bart Buch to creat art bikes inspired by horses and unicorns.
- Duluth and Case Recreation Center worked with resident artist Julian McFaul to create a giant cardboard beast.
- Conway Recreation Center worked with resident artist Chris Lutter to make a large eye popping tortoise out of umbrellas.
- Folwell Middle School in connection with VSA worked with resident artist Estella De Paola de Lerma to create large West African Adinkra Symbols with special needs students at the school.
Artist and Community organized parade units
- Chicks on Sticks – Stilting Troupe
- Saint Paul Police – Bike patrol
- DRUM!- Hector MacQuarie, bag pipe
- Saint Paul Police Band - Drum Line
- CAAM – Chinese American Dance Theatre
- Teatro del Pueblo – Theater Puppets
- Minnesota Kite Flyers Association - Artist Crafted Kites
- Highland ECFE Program - Butterflies
- IPAAM Sumunar – Indonesian Gamelan Ensemble
- Science Museum of Minnesota –Star Wars Characters
- Webster Elementary –The Mobile Sonic Playground
- Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli –Aztec Dance of Ancient Mexico
- Women’s Drum Center – Drum Heart Drum Line
- Los Alegres Bailadores –Mexican Folk Dance
- Sansei Yonsei Kai –Celebrating Japan
- Forest Lake Rangers Drum Line – High School Competitive Drum Line
2007 PARADE PARTICIPANTS
Artist and Community Organized Units
Chicks on Sticks—Stilt Walkers
Saint Paul Police Band—Drum Line
Merrick Community Center—Kites created in residency with artist Bart Buch
Minnesota Children’s Museum—Curious about the City Banners—sights Curious George experiences around Saint Paul. Created in a public workshop with artist Mark Safford
CAAM (Chinese American Association of Minnesota)—Chinese Dance
Guildworks (the artist team of the FABRIC TAKES FLIGHT installation)—Custom Built Kites
Ober Community Center / Union Gospel Mission—Art Bikes created in residency with artist Nathan Young
Minnesota History Center—Flower Banner, created in a public workshop, inspired by Ojibwe Bandolier Bags with artists Joe Iverson and Pat Welch
Reading Diva’s—MELSA Librarian Book Cart Drill Team
All About the Family / McRae Park Community Center—Kites made in workshops with artist Brian Kelley.
Northern Lights American Eskimo Dog Association—Animal Art
Native Pride Dancers—Native American Dance
Special Olympics of Minnesota / Bridgeview Elementary—Art Kites created by students in residency at Bridgeview Elementary with artist Bart Buch
Highwood Hills Elementary, SPPS—Puppets and masks created in a school designed residency
Frost Lake Elementary, SPPS—Art Kites created with classroom teacher Juliana James
ARTbikes—Bikes created by community members in public workshops
IPAAM Sumunar—Indonesian Gamelan Ensemble
Young Artists Initiative—Highlights from their production of Mulan
Mystic Toys—Mr. Fun on stilts
Minnesota Kiteflyers Society—Kites
Drum Heart—Percussion Line
For more information and registration, contact Ordway Center at engage@ordway.org or 651.282.3025.
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