Kent’s favorite holiday was Halloween and we are happy to keep his tradition alive. Thom dawned his Dobby the House Elf costume during studio, featuring custom made 3D printed ears (designed by mentee Tyler) and a superb hand crafted nose. I went for the classic skull face painted with…
Last Saturday I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon with KBMP staff and students passing out applications and making art at the National Coming Out Day celebration. Not only was it a great way to spend an afternoon, but to me KBMP’s attendance at the event represented the…
The mystique of aerosol is contagious, and many youth find themselves in trouble when they are first exposed to the medium. Urban Art is perhaps the biggest world-wide contemporary art movement. Films such as Exit Through the Gift Shop, Bomb It!, Beautiful Losers and countless others delve into the movement. From its…
This is one of the biggest works in clay to emerge from our Clay Media Program. I caught student Tara in the process of modeling the eyes on her gigantic face and asked her if she had ever heard of Jun Kaneko. “Who?”, she said. We discussed how…
This generation of young people is inspiring in a lot of ways. I’m extremely proud to report that in over three years of working with teenagers in our our studio, I have never once heard a racial slur, or a homophobic remark. It seems that this new generation take…
Preface: Every single person at KBMP has a different story. But when they come to the studio the differences that might otherwise serve as barriers between them dissolve. The one common factor, the glue that holds them all together, is that they come to the studio to create….