Fueling the Imaginations of our Youth
A project to foster and help strengthen the imaginations of our youth through creative activities integrated with poetry and art. The Artful Thought Project is overseen by Twowolvz Creations and published on The River Muse by Twowolvz Press.
Current Projects
Artful Friday- Artful Thought Project at the Food Shelf
Once a month the ATP stops by the local Foodshelf for an afternoon of art and poetry. While the parents go through the foodshelf their kids do a shortened ATP.
Poetry Clubs- Artful Thought Project in the Schools
Last school year, ATP & the local Junior High started an after school Poetry Group for 7th & 8th graders.
The Poetry Club will continue this coming school year at the Junior High plus we are hoping to expand to the High School.
The Story of How ATP Began
We are parents and grandparents with
children still growing and living at home. A few of us have young children
while the rest have teenagers in different points along their bloom. Regardless
of age, each one is developing somewhere new and as their parents, we want them
to have the best tools at hand to help guide them to reach their potential.
Often, we depend upon the educational systems to give our
children the tools they need to succeed. They spend most of their days at school
learning facts and social skills from the academic and social toolboxes around
them. The boxes vary depending on the school’s location and funding. At the
same time, the majority of schools lack the creative tools necessary for their
children’s development. The education systems are once again denying that
imagination plays an important role in building life skills. A timely philosophy
for them to hold as they decide where to makes cuts in education due to the
economic crisis. The reality is the cutbacks have nearly striped the arts.
We walk our creative
paths perplexed with the state of imagination. We are all concerned with the lack of creative tools
within the schools. They say you need to make change to bring change and that
every little part helps. We decided with that thought in mind to do our part
and begin the Artful Thought Project.
A project to help build the imaginations of children through creative activities
integrating literature and art. A project we can bring to our neighborhoods.
The Artful Thought
Project is
designed in three parts with activities involving at least two creative tools.
One of the activities needs to involve literature while another must engage the
children in art. The third activity can use any creative tool available. The
goal of the project is that a child will engage in an activity with his/her
active imagination and will use deductive reasoning skills in completing the
project. At the end of the project the children will have created two pieces of
work that we will publish in The
River Muse.
Everyone is welcome
to hold an Artful Thought Project!
please contact River at editor@theriverjournal.org
for details in joining the fight for imagination.
please contact River at editor@theriverjournal.org
for details in joining the fight for imagination.
Past Projects
on The River Muse
Artful Thought ProjectArt- painting
Art- painting
