Monthly Archives: December 2011
One of our most loyal and enthusiastic Curious Jane girls, Anya, 7, took our Wired 101 Workshop last month. She enjoyed the Circuit Card project so much that she took it to the next level by making a bunch of her holiday greeting cards into light-up Circuit Cards! We’re so impressed with her ingenuity and D.I.Y. Holiday spirit. Go Anya! Continue reading
On Sunday we kicked off our Winter Field Trip Series with the Sketchbook Project Event, a two-hour collaborative art-making extravaganza, and it was great! We had about 60 girls show up to make pages for the sketchbooks, we were a little worried we’d run out of paper! The girls had really great ideas, and did some fantastic, cool artwork with all kinds of materials. We’re excited to take their work and bind it back into the sketchbooks, and to go see them at the Brooklyn Art Library in April, but here’s a few samples of the raw material, arranged by theme. Continue reading
I spotted this idea in a crafty book and made a simple version with the girls. So fun! Great starter-sewing project. Perfect holiday gift for mom. And useful to block out the early morning light on weekends. 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.