Red Bank Children's Librarian Miss Sam has developed innovative programs for kids that bring art and books to life. Saturday she will lead kids in creating Jackson Pollack-style works. Let's hear it for splatter paint somewhere other than our living room!
"As soon as I walked in here and saw this space and the windows and the river beyond...just the sheer openness," Sam Quintas said, "I thought to myself...this is absolute heaven...yeah, I'm never leaving." That revelation has turned into a blessing for the children of Red Bank who know her as Miss Sam. Quintas became the children’s librarian here at the Red Bank Library a year and a half ago, and in that time has turned that heavenly space into a kids’ center for the arts. Besides the typical storytimes that most libraries have for tots, Quintas has introduced Yoga Kids, a free weekly half hour of yoga; various workshops, including a recent visit and lesson from pop-modern artist, Michael Albert; and her highly successful arts program, …
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Red Bank Public Library
84 W Front St, Red Bank, NJ
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Red Bank area native and artist Katie Anne Stone talks about her art on a rainy Saturday night at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County's monthly opening.
February’s featured artist at the Art Alliance is Katie Anne Stone, a Red Bank area native and emerging artist who lives her art everyday. Katie has been “doing art all her life” and focuses on a small-scale representational style that links her work from image to image. Art is storytelling for Katie and her work tells stories without words. She views her art as a language with multiple meanings that evoke different emotions from different people. It’s a private conversation between the viewer and the art. That conversational approach to art is why she works on such a small scale and with such small formats. The smaller formats allow for a much more intimate connection between the art and the viewer. With “most of my paintings, only one …
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Art Alliance of Monmouth County
33 Monmouth St, Red Bank, NJ
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Mary
6:10 am on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
I take my niece there, and just this week showed her the Mona Lisa's and was admiring them. Great program! It looks like lots of great things are going on in the Red Bank Public Library...fantastic. :) more ›