Folk Art & Living Simply 2024

Today was the culmination of a week of hard work, learning, and community building. In the morning, we worked on two new projects that highlighted our focus for the week, using reclaimed materials. The first project was paper making, where we pulped the shredded paper from the MFS Faculty/Staff Lounge and turned it into...

On the fourth day of Folk Art and Living Simply IL students continued to craft with new mediums, to repurpose recycled materials, and to use a range of materials and methods to make tea light luminaries. By the end of the day, we had completed three separate projects. We kicked off the day by...

 We started the day with hot chocolate and pottery painting with chemical dyes (using copper and iron). With carefully wrapped pottery in tow, we moved outside for some good old-fashioned manual labor. Taking turns, we dug a hole (that was supposed to be a cubic meter) and prepped firewood.  Once we got the fire...

The Folk Art Intensive Learning group had a great second day. From learning new skills like macramé and exploring new combinations of mediums, the group had a day full of exploration and experimentation. We started the day off by unloading new materials for the week in preparation for the coming days, which included fire...

The Folk Art IL group had an eventful first day: a wonderful nature walk, basket weaving, friendship bracelets, and everyone’s favorite, the mould and deckle. First, we started with a snack consisting of fruit, croissants, and muffins. After that, we took a nature walk around the back of the school and found animal bones,...