Monthly Archives: August 2011
At Curious Jane, we use bugs and crawlies for a few different projects. The Red Wriggler Worms we used this year have emerged as our new favorite crawly creature because they showed incredible resilience over seven weeks of camp, and don’t show signs of fading anytime soon. They are super-worms! Continue reading
This week’s ‘Zine Scene class has been writing up a storm all week! Here are a few samples of their work. The girls wrote about their neighborhoods, let their silly sides loose, and came together to write a collaborative poem… Continue reading
The girls in the Curious Jane Jr. Story Arts class at Berkeley Carroll are making pretty amazing progress on the stories they’re creating this week. This is especially impressive considering some of them have only just finished kindergarten! Continue reading
Our Shipley campers are on the verge of publishing their first poetry anthology! Here are a few poems, to give you a little preview: 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.