Monthly Archives: June 2011
This week, three small Curious Jane programs opened – heralding, for us, the start of summer! The upcoming months will be absolutely full of projects, preparation, phone calls, supply runs, new ideas, energy, exhaustion, discoveries, amazing work, and many many girls. We look forward to it all – it’s camp! Continue reading
This summer, we are moving our Brooklyn June weeks of Curious Jane to the Invisible Dog Art Center (Carroll Gardens) and offering our “Best of Curious Jane.” Each day will be favorite projects from a different theme, and each week will be a different set of “CJ’s Best.” The Invisible Dog offers a great space in a convenient and quintessential Brooklyn neighborhood. Can’t wait! Continue reading
Girls have so many amazing ideas to share and show about who they are and what they can do, and they have a spread of tools and techniques right at their fingertips. In Eleanor’s words (age 9): “I want to design-it-myself because then I can wear it and no one else will have it.” Self-expression – now that’s what we’re talking about! Continue reading
Samantha Razook Murphy is the founder of Curious Jane and Blue Tree. She was inspired to create these unique programs to give her girls, and all girls, a chance to be creative and inventive in a high-energy, collaborative and gender-affirming space. She loves designing, tinkering and figuring out. Samantha is the mother of two girls and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds her BA from Yale and Masters in Industrial Design from Pratt. In her spare time she coaches volleyball and rides her bike around Brooklyn.