Tag Archives: from the girls
This past summer, we had the chance to submit a project how-to from both our Curious Jane and Blue Tree girls, to be included in Kiki magazine’s Feb/March issue. And it has hit the newsstands! Continue reading
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
Laura P., age 10, is one of our Brooklyn Curious Jane girls. In this post, she shares her experience with a unique after-school activity that she’s been participating in for years: Irish Step Dancing! Continue reading
Over the weekend’s social and family gatherings, in the natural courses of conversation, I found I kept recommending this book, The Mostly True Story of Jack, by Kelly Barnhill. There are so many of my daughter’s books that I have enjoyed just as much as I have my ‘own’… 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
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
Summer Sun. A poem from the Zine Scene girls at Springside… Continue reading
In drawing girls’ voices into the blog, I have reached out to a few campers and young friends who I know have something to share. Here is a tale by Talya – a 4th grade girl whose mind swirls with stories. Her stories spill onto the page and screen; she lets her characters guide her, taking her down paths she had not originally conceived. I’ve had the honor of reading many of these, and when I asked her to contribute a story, this is the one she chose… Continue reading
Dora Lanigan, contributor
About “Out of My Mind” (by Sharon M. Draper)… Melody is an 11 year old who has cerebral palsy, which means she cannot walk or talk. She must use a wheelchair and she can’t communicate with words or movements. This bugs her because she has a lot on her mind! 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.