FAIR HELPS BRING DREAM OF ART FOR CHILDREN TO LIFE.Byline: Cortney Fielding Staff Writer Ernest Sosa Ernest Sosa is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has been at Rutgers full-time since January, 2007; previously, he had been at Brown University since 1964. is living a child's dream Child's Dream (Child’s Dream Association) - non-profit charity organization for helping underprivileged children in the Mekong Sub-Region, incorporated in Switzerland, Canton Zurich and based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. into middle age. Last year, the Topanga Canyon native, who calls himself Picasso, left a career in real estate to pursue a lifelong goal - creating a center for children to study the arts with guidance from professional artists. This March, Picasso's Kids will begin instructing students on everything from how to make American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. dream catchers to designing skateboards. The nonprofit group held the first in a series of biweekly fundraising fairs in Topanga Canyon on Sunday. The money will go toward keeping class participation costs down and providing free tuition for low-income students at the Picasso's Kids Learning Center in Topanga Canyon. In a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into parking lot behind the learning center, visitors celebrated the fair's Chinese New Year Chinese New Year (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: Chūnjié), or Spring Festival ``Year of the Dog'' theme. Guests and their dogs browsed vendor booths complete with designer dog leashes and magnetic-therapy pet collars. Robyn Feeley, a local artist and Picasso's Kids organizer, brought her 1-year-old Vietnamese miniature pot-bellied pig The pot-bellied pig is a breed of domesticated pig originating in Vietnam with fourteen sub-species. Considerably smaller than standard American or European farm pigs, most adult pot-bellied pigs are about the size of a medium- or large-breed dog, though their bodies are denser at , Shama Sha´ma n. 1. (Zool.) A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. Punam. The black-haired pet mingled with guests while Feeley instructed children in a pastel drawing booth. Feeley will teach a similar eight-week class at the center. Students will learn to create loose interpretations of animals, like cats with exaggerated noses and dogs with gigantic ears. The class will teach children not to conform to Verb 1. conform to - satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" fit, meet coordinate - be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well" rigid standards, she said. ``A lot of kids have the perceived notion that everything has to be drawn a certain color, shape or size. We want to have them think outside the box,'' she said. Zoe Alley, 11, will be one of Feeley's first students. The Topanga Elementary School student helped organize Sunday's fair. In addition to drawing, Zoe is interested in acting, singing and dancing. ``I want to do it all,'' she said. Sosa, 44, said wide ambitions are common for children, and he hopes the center will keep their ambitions alive. ``Every kid dreams; they are naturally dreamers,'' he said. ``I've wanted to do this since I was a dreamer myself.'' Cortney Fielding, (818) 713-3705 cortney.fielding(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Emily Hardwick, 9, left, and Rylie Dickman, 10, paint pots at the Picasso's Kids fundraising fair in Topanga on Sunday. Alex Collins/Special to the Daily News |
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