Creative juices flow at Hunt Library for young artists’ workshop

FALLS VILLAGE — Young artists descended on the David M. Hunt Library Saturday morning, March 8, for an art-making workshop inspired by the work of Eric Carle.

Running the show was Breetel Graves of Canaan Art Space, a mobile children’s art education organization out of North Canaan.

Graves said the group just got started in January.

The materials were ready for the young artists. They included a lot of paper — paper to serve as a canvas, paper cut-outs in the shapes of animals and pre-painted paper in bold colors. Plus glue, scissors and books by Carle for reference.

The Sher brothers, Eli and Noah, were the first to arrive for the session that started at 10:30 a.m., because their mother Meg Sher is the Hunt Library’s librarian.

Both boys picked a bird shape to work with.

More children and parents trickled in, and by 11 a.m. the place was buzzing as a dozen children busied themselves as Graves moved around, offering a suggestion here, cleaning up a bit of errant glue there.

Graves said the emphasis of the program is not so much the finished product, but getting the youngsters involved in the hands-on, creative process.

Fore more info visit www.canaanartspace.org.