(Asheville, NC) – On September 10, 2011, the Moss Garden at Rainbow Mountain Children’s School will be a part of the 2011 West Asheville Garden Stroll.  Click to read the rest of the story at the school website.  

Story submitted by Dulcita Love.

Nakaya Caldwell working with clay. Photo by Dulcita Love.

Nakaya has created a variety of art projects at her school under the inspiration of art teacher, Richmond Smith.  Her projects include sculpture using non-traditional materials, batik, clay sculpture, self-portraiture, and impressionistic painting.  This will be the first time Nakaya will take a class at Richmond's Studio which was a hope of hers.

Richmond's Studio offers Art Education for children and adults with a specialization in contemporary fine art. Half-day summer camps run June through August.  

"The mission of this program is to promote learning of the fine arts using traditional and contemporary techniques in order for the student to create their own unique artwork through this instruction.  More than anything else, our teachers wants to show all students that art is something that can make them happy throughout their entire life.  Not only can they experience this happiness through the process of creating new artwork, but each student will come away from a class by looking at the world from a different perspective." ~ Richmond's Studio located in Phil Mechanic Studios

The right opportunity presented itself to award Nakaya with the scholarship.  At the time, Dulcita Love did not know that Nakaya had already hoped to participate in a class at Richmond's Studio.  

Dulcita Love Consulting has been involved in community projects that give children the opportunity to expand their cultural experiences and learn about preserving the earth's natural resources.  Other projects include a Pops for Penguins fundraiser, Moss Garden Installation, Hands of Hope service project, Imagine Asheville Arts Extravaganza, and the Asheville International Children's Film Festival.

Visit http://www.richmonds-studio.com more information on Richmond's Studio classes.  Click "Summer Camp" to view Art Summer Camps ranging from Realistic Drawing to Functional Artwork.

Click http://dulcitalove.com/news for projects Dulcita Love is involved with to increase children's cultural and stewardship awareness plus web marketing training for businesses.

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7/1/11 Update:  Nakaya Caldwell attended two half-day summer classes.  She created a robotic sculpture with wheels out of found objects, and a 3-dimensional scene of a person painting with a miniature painting on a mini-easel and painted flat surface to hold the entire scene. The person was sculpted out of wire and clay.  Upon completion of her sculpture classes, Nakaya was presented with a framed award certificate as recipient of the "Introduction to Sculpture" scholarship.

G Social Media at the Grove Park Inn on May 27, 2010.  Highlights are below.

Filmmaker, writer, actress, activist Angela Shelton shares about using social media and video to connect with her audience. Photo by Dulcita Love.

(Presenters are noted by their Twitter handle with the @ sign.)

Highlights include:

• When making presentations, make sure the font is large enough to read in the audience. (@PSAVAsheville)
• Adding clips as an overlay to footage that is blurry or shaky can make your video more interesting. (@revpictures)
• Move and zoom your video camera very slowly to create better quality video. (@ashevillevideo)
• Create videos that follow your passion to move and inspire the viewer. (@BourneMedia)
• Videos for social media can be more casual and in the moment with less editing. (@BourneMedia)
• It would be nice to have one quality video you chose to represent your business, whether done by professional or yourself. (@BourneMedia)
• Which small video camera is the favorite to use.  (Flip Video for @GSocialMedia, Kodak Zi8 for @BourneMedia, Sanyo Xacti for @angelashelton).
• WNC Films is bringing films and film production to Asheville with a new twist: featuring Asheville as itself instead of a place that looks like some other place. (Judson Matthews)

Thank you to G Social Media and the presenters for sharing their collective experience on using video and social media.