About the Blog
| DiVitto Kelly & Andrea Lopez |
| Hollywood, Fl |
Welcome to our Blog. Here, you’ll find information about our current,
recent and upcoming papier mache craft workshops, projects, and shows.
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Andrea completed a 6-foot giraffe for the Mount Sinai Hospital located in Miami Beach
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August 8, 2010
  From September until November 2010, I’ll be the featured artist at the ArtsPark at Young Circle, located in Downtown Hollywood, Florida. (http://www.visithollywoodfl.org/artspark.aspx). It’s a great facility and I’m looking forward to it. I should have about 12-14 sculptures on display. One of the special treats on display will be the 8-foot guest book shark painted with black chalkboard paint. Instead of a guest book to sign, guests can sign the shark with colorful chalk. For the last year, I had seven large sharks on display at the South Regional/Broward College Library located in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The sculptures were hung on the atrium walls. Some of my smaller sculptures were enclosed in a glass case located on the first floor.
Posted by Divitto Kelly. Posted In : Shows
August 4, 2010
It’s been an incredibly busy summer for both Andrea and I. Although we both work full time (I’m a librarian; Andrea’s an art teacher), we’ve done a host of papier mache programs all over Florida. Andrea also presents a monthly craft program at the Funtastic Fridays for Kids event in downtown Hollywood.Our summer program schedule included trips throughout Florida. Among the host of libraries we visited were: Captiva, Key Largo, Marathon, Marco Island, Miami Beach, Miami, Miramar, Naples, Opa-locka, Palm Coast, and Pembroke Pines. All in all, we completed 10 papier mache craft programs. We also participated three Sundays in a row for a fun craft program in West Palm Beach. In October, we’ll be traveling up to Palm Coast again for a unique Halloween craft program featuring oversized candy corn. On three occasions, we did two programs on one day. In mid June, Andrea and I traveled over two hours down to Marathon, Florida (in the Keys), and did a morning craft program. After a quick lunch, we stopped off at a tourist site where you can feed bait fish to 4-6 foot tarpon. Some tourists allowed the tarpon to grasp the baitfish while in their hands. It’s an interesting experience to see these monstrous fish propel their bodies out of the water and swallow the fish (hands and all). Thankfully, tarpon have small teeth so it’s not too dangerous. We chose to play it safe and tossed the baitfish in the water.
Posted by Divitto Kelly. Posted In : Programs
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