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INTENTION: 


Open Art Spark nourishes community, family and individuals through process oriented sustainable art projects and spatial experiences.

 

Using what I have in front of me, knitting with tea bag strings just because it's beautiful 💖
Used tea bags (some of them over 6 years old) or precious art supplies? These delicate pieces of paper come from tea that has been enjoyed, then dried, pulled open, cleaned, dried again and then pressed with an iron. They are lovely to work with 💖
Happy Earth-day Earthings 🌍💫✨🌈 In honor of - we are sharing a view into our bark painting project inspired by the ever brilliant feed of @hatchartstudio and @artbarblog. In fact I think this is in their “nature projects blog”. Correct
Low Impact Creation ✨ High Vibrations⚡️ What’s @leelalenoury holding in her hands? 3 dimensional spheres from coffee stirrers and newspaper - held together with tea bags strings.🤍🤍➰In other words .... Magic 🔮 She started working on these aft
In the shade of an olive tree, using flowers that drifted into our house on the moonlit breeze and a stick we found next to the pool... Always making 🌱

Meet Corinne and Leela:

 

 

Corinne Lee Amato

Corinne  Amato, Co-Creator of Open Art Spark, is an Arts Facilitator, Mother and Cultural Worker. She practices communal art therapy, up-cycling city and sub-urban abundance of discarded materials into beautifully useful objects, weaving communities in the process. Corinne’s career centers upon the axiom “the Arts belong to EVERYONE,” a mindset she attributes to her Washingtonian roots.

A former fixture of the NYC downtown music scene as both performer and producer, Corinne propelled works of new composers increasing classical music accessibility. 

The University of California, Berkeley invited her to join their staff where she composed her own role within their performing arts presenting organization.  At Berkeley she unearthed a deep connection to paper arts and printmaking through continued studies. She has led private and public workshops for students of all ages for over 20 years and is currently in collaboration with @ohcanaryart. Corinne derives particular delight making something from nothing with her 12 and 9 year-old daughters.

 
 

Leela Le Noury

Leela Le Noury, Co-Creator of Open Art Spark, is a Mother, Artist, Chef, Horticulturalist and Community Activist.  Raised within the communes of the controversial guru Osho, Leela is the daughter of an eco-builder father and fiber artist mother.   The unweaving and reworking of this intricate and mystical childhood web, strung between the United Kingdom and India, is her continual artistic process. 

Transforming materials typically unwanted into something precious, desirable, even magical, is what she endeavors to share through Open Art Spark.  To encourage each of us to view our surroundings with a fresh perspective, a process that can transform beyond art and into each part of our lives, to create strong community at home and in the workplace.

Leela holds a BFA in Fine Arts and Art History from FIT.  She resides in Brooklyn with her musical husband, where they city-school their thirteen-year-old daughter.