Crayola Party at the EMP!

Last year, the Crayola Party was a big disappointment, but Crayola made up for it with this year's conference party at the Experience Music Project! This amazing Frank O. Gehry-designed building is a visual trip!


 
Before we actually went in this fantastic example of architecture, we watched some Northwest Coast totem pole carvers, who were beginning a totem pole dedicated to John T Williams, a First Nations Ditidaht carver fatally shot by Seattle police.

Corrie and her students Alli and Courtney enjoyed the huge Labyrinth outside the EMP.

 Generally, at the Crayola party there are some refreshments and some stations to explore Crayola products. This year, there were delicious desserts and Seattle coffee! We only saw one creative station (unless we missed something!) and that involved people creating Lattes out of Model Magic! We were in Seattle, after all!

 

 The EMP was a terrific music museum, including a huge tower of guitars and exhibits of Seattle native Jimi Hendrix and also incorporated a Science Fiction section on Battlestar Galactica. My favorite aspect of the EMP was the the ON STAGE interactive area where you could lip synch to a song and be videotaped with real instruments. If I can figure out how to upload the file, you may soon see the debut performance of ACTION SANDWICH! Stay tuned!

Even though we are all back home, stay tuned for more posts to come!!