The Arts Bus is prepping for STEAM powered creativity at Braintree Elementary School, VT today in the most fabulous way -- studying the absurdist machine making genius of Rube Goldberg!

😸🤖🐷Wearable Art - Fantasy Face Masks!👹🧚🐸

The Arts Bus & young artists in Stockbridge, Chelsea, Brookfield, Braintree, Tunbridge & Rochester have been creating more wearable art! Together, we made fantasy face masks, where the K-2nd graders colored traditional animal faces with non-traditional colors AND 3-6th graders used black-over-color to create mystery & contrast. We ❤️❤️❤️ seeing all the amazing characters emerge!

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🎃🎃Pumpkin Carve-n-Glow-ing!🎃🎃
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We're still glowing from all the fun at the Pumpkin Carve-n-Glow yesterday in Randolph! The day was gorgeous, the costumes & pumpkins so creative, and the Day of the Dead Altar is beautiful! Thank you to ALL who make this magic happen together!

The Arts Bus wishes everyone a safe & Happy Halloween!!

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⭐️⭐️⭐️Introducing The Ottauquechee School 2nd Graders'
Sock Puppets Class of 2022-23⭐️⭐️⭐️

For the 2nd year, The Arts Bus loaded up the Puppet Factory and traveled to the Ottauquechee School in a 3-part, 2-day design & build workshop. First, we learned about puppets of different types, used our voices & hand skillls to animate them with silly sweet fun. Then, we cut felt & foam, colored eyeballs, customized wings, added hair, tails and teeth to make each puppeteer's creation go from design page to puppet theatre stage -- and 21 sock puppets came to life!

Now Quechee's puppet population includes three-eyed & red-tongued, striped, devil'd & winged dragons; blue haired & sparkling mermaids; toothy, colorful & butterfly-winged unicorns; mouse-eared icy-eyed purple & orange flying monsters; Spiderpup and Mario!

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🧶🎨🖌 Wearable Art - Fabric is a Canvas!

This autumn, The Arts Bus has explored fabric as a canvas with knit caps & carry-all bags, stencils, markers & paint! We shared why we wear the clothes we do, that we wear art every day, and are making artistic choices with our clothes & accessories.

Then, 98 young artists in Stockbridge, Chelsea, Brookfield, Braintree and Stockbridge chose knit cap or bag, stencils, markers & paint to create their own wearable & usable fabric art!

Each smile, colorful cap & bag in these photos are due in large part to the support of our Go Big & Go Home initiative funded by the Vermont Children's Trust Foundation. This Arts Bus initiative works in concert with our Ever After Kids Program to provide quality art supplies, tools & materials to the children we serve to inspire & empower even after the bus rolls away.

Next stop, Rochester! Coming soon: colorful masks, pencil & pen sketching, and clay play photos.

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In afterschool art enrichment this month on The Arts Bus, we've been having a blast personalizing our own knit caps & carry-all bags, emphasizing that art is ON us every day and we wear other artists' work. And then -- World Cow & DJ Barry Art make that point in black & white! 🖤+🤍+🐄+🧦=🤩 ... See more

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There's a Magic Circle in Randolph this October!
Come out & join us to celebrate, create & play together!
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The Arts Bus is making its first stop in "New RouTEEN" at Kimball Public Library next week for a COSPLAY to EVERY DAY Workshop!

With the financial support of Lamson-Howell Foundation, the bus & library are inviting 6th-9th graders to come in full power cosplay spectacularness! We are bringing hair, make-up & style artists and supplies to then translate looks to every day, while keeping the elements most empowered through style. We are super excited to launch this together!

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Chelsea Vermont Arts are thriving, and The Arts Bus got to experience that firsthand at Chelsea Arts on the Green this year on family day! We packed the stencils, paint & brushes once more to "Add a Little Country" to handpressed paper & home decor. It was a terrific day to see artistic families bloom in the sunshine!

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The Arts Bus Summer '22 Art Adventure Tour was full of joy!

We made 43 stops in 3 months at 15 towns, directly impacted 275 children in summer camps, worked with 5 very talented artist educators & technicians, partnered with welcoming hosts & on-site teams, and shared the creative capacity of this beloved green bus with thousands!

All of this was made possible by the generosity of grant providers, town residents, private supporters, partners & hosts, and most significantly in our nonprofit's history: the donation of the bus itself from Ron Coughenour back in 2009. Ron was a long-time school bus driver who passed away late this summer, but whose jovial spirit lives on the bus and is carried with us every time we roll. We thank you, Ron, for such a legacy gift!

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