Get Creative at Home

Looking for some fun and new ways to express your creativity? Whether you’re looking for a project for yourself, or trying to keep your kids busy, bring some artistic joy into your home with one of these great projects.

Tin Can Drums

Materials:

• Tin cans • Balloons • Rubber bands • Dried rice • Scissors • Chopsticks (or any sticks you can find in your backyard) Wash out and dry the tin cans you will be using for the base of your drum. Add 1/4 cup of dried rice to the can. Cut off the end of your balloon. Stretch the opening of the balloon over the open top of the tin can. Secure your balloon covering with a rubber band. Get creative! Decorate your drum with paint, stickers, or glitter. Let your designs completely dry. Grab your makeshift drumsticks (i.e. chopsticks, branches from outside, spoons) and make some noise! You can also shake up the can for a built in maraca sound.

Watercolor Resist Painting

Materials: • Resist material of your choice (for kids try crayons or glue, for adults/teens, wax or tape are also good options) • Construction or watercolor paper • Watercolor paints • Paintbrushes • Cup of water on a sheet of white construction paper. *If using glue, wait until your design is completely dry before starting step 2. paint leakage before starting step 2. you have water ready to clean your brushes between colors. Bonus: Record your own song! What would your band name be? Floating Acorn Candles

Materials:

• Acorn tops • Candle Wicks • Styrofoam or clay • Wax (Hint: re-melt birthday candles for already tinted colors) • Small saucepan or crock pot • Bowl of water 1.

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6. Poke acorn tops into a large piece of Styrofoam or clay to keep them in place when pouring in the hot wax. Melt wax. (This can be done on the stovetop in a small pot or in a small crockpot). Stir consistently to avoid burning the wax, and be careful not to splash the wax to avoid burning yourself. Carefully pour wax into acorn tops until filled halfway. Be sure to use potholders to protect your hands. Insert wick and hold for a few minutes until the wax is dry enough for the wick to stand on its own. After the wax has set, add more wax to fill each acorn candle top. Fill your desired bowl with water. Set acorns on the water gently, light, and enjoy. Reminder: never leave the candles

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2. Using your “resist” material of choice, create your design *If using tape, make sure to seal down the edges to avoid Gather your watercolors and paintbrush, and make sure unattended. 3.

4. Apply watercolor to your paper and watch how the paint avoids the crayon, how the glue acts as a barrier against the color, and how the tape prevents the paint from bleeding through.

Allow your painting to dry completely. If you have used tape as your “resist” material, remove the tape carefully. Bonus: Add additional embellishments such as glitter, beads, or sequins to your design to add texture and pizzazz.

Materials: • Water • Food coloring • Cups, muffin tins, and bowls in various sizes • Tray, large bowl, or platter 1. Pour water into your chosen vessels. Fill to different heights to add interest to your sculpture.

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3. Add food coloring to the water. Use them straight from the bottle or mix colors together to create new ones. The more drops of food coloring that you use, the deeper the color tone. Freeze overnight.

4. Once the water is completely frozen, loosen the ice pieces with a little warm water and remove.

Worry Dolls Worry dolls are small, hand-made dolls that originated in Guatemalan indigenous communities. Children tell the dolls their fears and worries and place them under their pillows at night so they can wake refreshed and free of their worries. These dolls are also found in Mexico.

Materials:

• Popsicle sticks • Colorful string or yarn • Googly eyes • Glue • Pipe cleaners 1. Gather your materials and pick out the string colors you would like to use for the doll’s face.

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8. At the top of your Popsicle stick, tie the string in a knot to secure it. Begin to wrap the string around and around, covering the Popsicle stick as much as you would like for the doll’s face. Cut the string you are currently using and tie a new color for the doll’s clothing. Use as many colors as you want to create the doll’s clothing by adding on new colors with the same process. Continue to wrap the string around your Popsicle stick until it is completely covered. Tie the string in a knot around the bottom of the stick to secure your covering. You can also put a dot of glue on the knots at the top and bottom of the Popsicle stick to secure it further. Grab the pipe cleaners you would like to use for the doll’s arms and the legs. Wrap the pipe cleaners around the middle of the Popsicle stick for the arms and repeat at the bottom for the legs Finally, glue your googly eyes on. 5.

6. Arrange the ice pieces on a tray, platter, or in a large bowl. Play around with how you stack them until they are arranged how you like them.

Set your sculpture outside on a cold day for others to enjoy. Bonus: Look around the house for different shaped vessels to add variety to the sculpture. Try adding string lights around the final sculpture to see how the light plays off the ice and colors.

Beginning Monoprint for Kids

Materials:

• Acrylic paint •

Paint brush or roller

Q-tips or toothpicks

Construction paper or canvas

Cake pan, cup, or other flatbased item to be used as a

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Pick a design of your choosing and gather your materials (snowman example: rounded plastic cup for “print block,” construction paper, white acrylic paint, Q-tips). Using a paintbrush or roller, apply acrylic paint to the bottom of your print block. On your painted print block, use a paint brush, toothpick, Q-tip, or other small tool, to create a design on the block (snowman example: use a Q-tip to create eyes, nose, and mouth for your snowman’s face). Once print block and design are ready, carefully place your block directly onto a sheet of construction paper or canvas. Push your block down for a few seconds, being careful not to move it. Repeat above steps as needed for your design (snowman example: repeat steps 2 more times to create the body of the snowman). Slowly remove block from paper and creatively add to your design (snowman example: use your finger prints to create the look of fluffy snow, snowballs, or snowflakes snowman). Bonus: Use additional supplies such as glitter, googly eyes, small beads, or sequins to add to your work of art!

Hillsboro Arts & Culture Endowment

THANKS YOU

for helping us reach the goal of $20,000 added to the Endowment in our year end campaign. Because of you, we are Supporting the Arts Today, and Sustaining them for Tomorrow.

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The City of Hillsboro appreciates and values arts and culture. The City has an active history of supporting the arts as a way to enhance livability and to facilitate, coordinate, and celebrate the many creative assets in our community. Guiding documents—the Hillsboro 2035 Community Plan and Hillsboro’s Cultural Arts Action Plan—reflect this support in the many initiatives and actions that point us toward ways to make Hillsboro a more welcoming and creative community. Housed in the Glenn and Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center, Parks and Recreation’s Cultural Arts Division operates the Walters’ programming and presentations, the City’s Public Art Program, a growing Arts and Culture Endowment, local arts and culture grant funding, and Community Arts outreach programming to support artists, arts and culture groups, and community members in a multitude of ways. Additionally, Cultural Arts provides administrative support for the Hillsboro Arts & Culture Council and its subcommittees.

Walters Cultural Arts Center

The Walters Cultural Arts Center, located at the corner of SE 5th Avenue and Main Street, is a visual arts and performance facility that is home to a 200 seat performance and event space, art galleries, and five art classroom studios. Programming at the Walters showcases of a variety of art and cultural programs, including: live performances, art exhibitions and openings, lectures, workshops, and a variety of visual and performing arts classes. The Walters is also available for a wide variety of private rentals, including: weddings, parties, meetings, trainings, and other special events.

Community Arts

With a desire to connect our community, strengthen our economy, and expand our cultural enrichment, the Community Arts Program provides programming and outreach to support local artists, arts groups, and the community. This includes our professional development and networking opportunities, resource and organizational support for individuals and groups, support for community events and festivals, and advocacy for funding and support.

Hillsboro Public Art Program

The Public Art Program works with other City departments as well as partners throughout the community in creating a welcoming Hillsboro by bringing art to public spaces throughout the city. Hillsboro’s Public Art Collection includes over 80 pieces of artwork from locally, nationally, and internationally known artists that create memorable public places that strengthen our community, enliven our neighborhoods, remind us of our history, and celebrate our ethnic and cultural diversity.

Hillsboro Arts & Culture Council (HACC)

The Hillsboro Arts & Culture Council is a citizen advisory committee appointed by the Mayor and City Council. Together they advise on policy, programs, and arts and culture grant funding for the City of Hillsboro. The HACC works to promote and support the growth of arts and culture as assets for a vital, prosperous, and livable community. In 2012, the HACC established the Hillsboro Arts & Culture Endowment in partnership with the Hillsboro Community Foundation to create long-term stable funding for our creative community.

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Hillsboro Arts & Culture Council

Ramon Cancel, Chair Pamela Padilla, Vice Chair Ajoy Chakrapani Joan Callaway BJ Jeddeloh See Eun Kim Stephanie Kim Jean Lasswell Dolisha Mitchell Gayle Nachtigal Venkatesh Naik Ishaan Sinha, YAC Representative

Cultural Arts

Nancy Nye, Arts, Culture & Events Senior Manager

Michele McCall-Wallace, Cultural Arts Manager

Katrina Hill, Administrative & Walters Rentals Bridie Harrington, Walters Arts Education & Visual & Performing Arts Supervisor

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Cultural Arts Program Support LeAnn Alsop Tracy Andrews Nee Anuskewicz Jen Champlin Karen DeBenedetti Joel Gordon Laura Gorman Alice Hill Lindsey Holcomb Nikki Iadarola Mark Jackson Cindy Morales-Lee Amy Thompson

ON THE COVER: Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra violinist, Emmalisa Sparrow Wood performed outdoors at Cornell Estates as part of the Cultural Arts “Through the Window” fall performances in which senior residents listened at a distance.

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