events
2023:
In August 2023, we launched our international program with a group in India, collaborating with Ar. Santrupthy Das.
In June 2023, we went to Origami USA once again, meeting with and learning from friends new and old.
In Spring 2023, we went to Russell Cave Elementary school to teach second graders in their beautiful library.
2018:
On January 19, 2018, we brought our origami and wellness message to Christ Church Cathedral's Gallery Hop Event: "I Am ME" as part of a weekend to integrate arts and wellness for children, families, and teachers in Central Kentucky. Volunteers Kathy Loeb and Mayte Hernandez-Murillo joined the team to teach our wellness message in storigami to local students from homeschool and public elementary through community college and teachers.
2017:
In July 2017, we thanked Bluegrass Integrated Communications for over 3 years of support for thousands of school children! Pictured below is Bill Nichols, President of Bluegrass Integrated, receiving a work of art by Sylvia Cerel-Suhl.
In June 2017, we folded hearts again at Origami USA.
In February 2017, we had a multidisciplinary Heart Wellness Outreach with The University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute, including exciting public fun folding, a display of the GIANT Heart Banner, and many medical heart demonstrations by University of Kentucky physician and scientist volunteers, at The Living Arts and Science Center on Martin Luther King Drive in Downtown Lexington, Kentucky.
Thank you to Dr. Susan Smith and Deb Rateri for bringing U.K. HealthCare support in such a big way. Thank you also to Traci Rust, M. Morgan Moses, and all our volunteers for a very successful event serving around 300 children and families.
2016:
In September 2016, teen mothers at The Family Care Center learned the KidsArt4Hearts origami hearts, health messages, and made a group work of art for their beautiful facility on Wednesday September 14th.
Family Care Center student making individual hearts for group project after KidsArt4Hearts lesson.
In August 2016, we shared the KidsArt4Hearts curriculum within a set of origami lessons at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky. The health curriculum and heart shape in KidsArt4Hearts is one week of 8 weeks of origami class training.
The origami class is part of a pilot research project with Dr. Gregory Jicha, Dr. Shani Bardoch, and Tyler Hammond on "Brain Exercises for Synaptic Training." (the B.E.S.T. Trial). This study compares the experiences of seniors ages 65-80 in 8 weeks of weekly origami classes with daily homework, taught by Dr. Sylvia Cerel-Suhl, to those in a reading group supervised by Mr. Hammond, and to controls, people who continue their usual activities. The effects on memory and the parts of the brain regulating spatial relations, memory, and executive function are being examined by testing before and after the 8 weeks with interviews, tests, and EEG brain scans.
In July 2016, KidsArt4Hearts was happy to share our curriculum and messages with museum educators, teachers, and members of the public at the Headley-Whitney Museum.
In rolling horse country, outside beautiful Lexington, Kentucky, the Headley-Whitney was showing two exhibitions: "Vision 20:200," art by award winning "legally blind" artists, and " Sense of Touch," a hands on experiential exhibit. Our 2 hour program tied the KidsArt4Hearts program to these concepts and exhibits.
Family FUN at the Headley-Whitney Museum on Saturday, July 30th, 1-3 pm.
We created a group collaborative art work for display in the special exhibit Sense of Touch after experiencing the exhibits and learning our KidsArt4Hearts origami hearts.
Dr Cerel-Suhl learns from and shares with with leading origami teachers and artists from 3 continents at Origami USA, June 2016.
The 2016 Origami USA Convention - June 17-20 in New York was a wonderful opportunity to learn from colleagues from around the country and world.
Dr. Cerel-Suhl taught a class at Origami USA with the KidsArt4Hearts Curriculum for teachers and students of all ages from elementary school to retirees. We were also able to collect hearts for the big Heart of Hearts from participants from around the USA and from UK and Europe.
We made a giant Heart from 9' x9' paper in a team competition.
We made a giant Heart from 9'x9' paper in a team competition.
Class at Origami USA 2016 contributing individual hearts for a class banner.
Family Care Center student making individual hearts for group project after origami and health lesson.
Group project assembled of individual works made by students in research course at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. September, 2016
