The Hand-Held Project

Today ROTC had a pop-up barbershop with West Sound Technical Center’s Cosmetology students! My amazing student Dare made a mural for it!

Victims of gun violence casting event held in Chicago last summer! Remember, all the good work you do comes back full circle! 👩‍🎨❤️

Gun Violence Survivors Hand Casting Session at The DuSable Museum.

A Mesmerizing Dance Performance for the Paralympics Hand Off Ceremony Choreographed by Sadeck Waff — Colossal As part of a closing hand-off ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games and the 2024 games in Paris, choreographer Sadeck Waff worked with 128 performers in a dizzying performance focused on arms and hands. The French dancer and choreographer has become known for his limb-centric performances whi...

Casting captures the power of the brush. Kicking off my winter time plaster workshops with two hand-casting events in November! Bring your old brushes and cast your hands holding them! 👏🏻Nov 12: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lifecasting-workshop-cast-your-hand-tickets-459476656047 November 19: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lifecasting-workshop-cast-your-hand-tickets-459527157097

Kicking off a season of plaster workshops with in the new classroom space ! Here’s your chance to learn how to make molds and plaster casts of your hands!

Resin is also a low budget casting option too!

Lifecasting a Hand with Alginate and Resin This week we are learning how to mold and cast your hand! we are using Alginate to make a silicone mold to cast my hand with resin. This is called lifecastin...

One option for casting your hands in glass! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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For the hand casting curious, check out

How To Mold and Cast a Hand in Plaster Using the Alja-Safe® Alginate Starter Kit It's easy and fun to make a lifecast of anyone's hand! Just follow the simple step-by-step lifecasting guide how-to video, and you will have a perfect lifeca...

Plaster heals. 💙 Honored to re-connect with my local police departments and train youth cadets on moldmaking and plaster casting for Seeing people make and engage through touch helps heal collectively and individually….and it lights me up as a teacher! 🔥😎💙

What an amazing outreach event yesterday with Duvall Police Department and Redmond WA Police! 👏🏻 💙👏🏻💙😎🌟

Excited to bring The Hand-Held Project back to Duvall tomorrow! We did some amazing outreach work before COVID, so this is an exciting week! Pop-up community plaster workshop tomorrow, then teaching moldmaking for glass to the Art Department teachers at Cedarcrest High School on Friday! 🤩😎🌟

Hi Friends!

Our Faith & Blue event is quickly approaching!
Please join us on October 9th when we host Duvall’s First Annual Faith & Blue event at the Timberlake Church located at 15520 Main Street NE from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

We will be teaming up with multiple religious groups, Fire District 45 and non-profit charity organizations to provide family fun activities while we get to know one another. Everyone is welcome!!! See you Sunday!

So happy to have participated in this event!! 💙

Officers reconnect with public on National Night Out | Kitsap Daily News For years, National Night Out has been a way for law enforcement to connect with its communities.

Touch is so important, and people are hungry for it. Giving people a chance to experience arts & touch through unusual channels like plaster sets us on fire! Seeing people light up is pure bliss!

National Night Out with Kitsap County Sheriff's Office was so much fun! Thanks for such a great opportunity to connect and share this process with others! https://youtube.com/shorts/Po7EUpRhLDg?feature=share

National Night Out 2022!

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities. ~Fred Rogers

(Book: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood https://amzn.to/3Or9PTY)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/health/back-to-school-sel-parenting-wellness/index.html

Restoring what the pandemic took: Social and emotional learning for kids Many children, in addition to being behind academically, have experienced what might be thought of as a social and emotional learning loss. For most, it means setbacks in taking on new responsibilities, trying new things or making friends.

With such deep feelings and stories, the mission was to encourage a sense of touch and play. Thank you Mary Ferazza for the amazing capture from yesterday! My heart is full! ❤️‍🩹🙌

Today we did a pop-up hand casting event for gun violence survivors at the DuSable Museum. Al has been working here for 17 years and has his own stories to tell. I loved seeing him enamored, curious, and hopeful. Today…we played. 🤩❤️

As I am packing my bags for Chicago, here's why I love plaster as a way to mend walls and help heal communities! https://thehand-heldproject.blogspot.com/2022/07/full-circle-plaster-with-purpose.html

Full Circle: Plaster with a Purpose Since I started professionally plastering walls in 2006, my hands have stretched thousands of square feet, from the first pass to the final ...

Happy to announce a new blog and creative repository for all things hand made! 🫶🏼💙 https://thehand-heldproject.blogspot.com/2022/06/full-circle-finding-voice.html

Full Circle: Finding a Voice 16 years old and getting dockets in the mail. The week's court cases included traffic citations and misdemeanor theft. I had a few days to p...

Cast glass and community outreach. Setting roots for to reignite in it’s home city.

https://www.independent.co.uk/health_and_wellbeing/covid-social-distancing-touch-deprivation-b1803587.html

66 hands were casted in the community plaster art event we hosted in Chicago last weekend! That means 66 lives were positively impacted by creating & community! 🌟🌟🌟🌟Looking forward to more!

I stumbled upon the most amazing exhibition today Nick Cave - Visual Artist collection of cast bronze hands, plus more colorful, playful, and imaginative decoration.

Frontline worker day!

Chicago brings the heat and passion for plaster! ❤️🔥 Great pop-up handcasting event today at the first event at Starbucks in the amazing community of Beverly. Today we kicked it off and payed respect to our frontline workers who served coffee and community care during the height of Covid. It felt like a reunion today. 🌟

https://youtu.be/ErWfdjdOah8

What happens to humans when we can't touch? | BBC Ideas Touch is how we first communicate as babies. Touch is fundamental to human wellbeing. So what happens when we can't touch - for example during the coronaviru...

So inspiring! If you only have time to watch a little, start at the 5 minute mark where the impact that COVID has had on touch and human relationships is discussed. 🌟🌟🌟

How does touch affect our mental and physical health? | DW Documentary Touch shapes us as humans. Indeed, touch is fundamental to what makes us social beings. Touch influences how we perceive stress and pain, who we trust and wh...