ARTISTS’ SPOTLIGHT The Lakewood Cultural Center and Washington Heights Arts Center are buzzing with artistic activity. On any given day, you’ll hear a weaver shifting the treadles of a loom, delight in a dancer’s joyful movement, see students painting en plein air or sketching quick gestures in a figure drawing class. From kids' art camps to beginning adult tap dance to watercolor, Lakewood has a class for every interest, every age and every level of experience.
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YOUTH ARTS MAILIN PLAGGE the natural spaces our world has to offer. Her artwork has always been a way to express her findings to the rest of the world through light, color and texture.
Mailin, a Denver-based artist, is a new addition to our youth arts team and will be instructing Open Art Studio on Monday afternoons. She has been a practicing artist and art teacher for several years. Her works are in collectors’ homes throughout North America, and she has taught various levels of art classes both internationally and in the U.S. Mailin graduated from St. Lawrence University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, concentrating on figurative work in oil paint. Since then, she has greatly enjoyed honing her skills in other 2-D media, including soft and oil pastel, charcoal and most recently acrylics. Her work can be categorized as realism, with painterly elements in many of her pieces. Throughout her work and travels, Mailin has developed an interest in how we as humans fit into the world around us and how we can use our creativity for good. Mailin’s two goals when she travels are to understand and give back to the communities she encounters, and to take in and explore
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Most recently, Mailin has been exploring our natural world through acrylic paint, with a concentration on depicting flora and fauna from all across our globe. It is her hope that she can give viewers a sense of understanding and closeness with the natural world, in a time when it’s so easy to feel detached. Mailin’s art philosophy, in both practice and especially in teaching, centers on the belief that mistakes are a happy part of the learning process, that expression always trumps perfection, and that stretching our creative muscles is good for the soul. Learn more about Mailin Plagge by visiting her Instagram account at @MailinPlaggeArt.
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The Lakewood Cultural Center offers a variety of youth arts classes including Drawing for Youth, Painting Techniques, Digital Illustration, Stop Motion Animation, Beginning Sewing and Printmaking along with one-day weekend workshops and out-of-school camps.
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