Dr Marissa McClure Sweeny

Submissions for the NAEA Early Childhood Art Educators’ young children’s art exhibition due date extended to December 19. QR code has all the details for submissions!

They make use of spaces and materials that you already have and use, and fit seamlessly into and enhance your existing family or classroom routines and rituals! Too book a creativity chat, workshop or individual coaching sessions, visit squadartstudio.com

These workshops are designed to support caregivers as they transform spaces in and around their homes into dynamic creative studio spaces and enrich their relationships with young children through shared creative art-making and inspiring play provocations!

🧵I am thrilled to announce that I have developed a series of workshops intended to support creative caregivers of young children (families and educators of children ages 0-8).

I am so honored to share that I have been awarded the 2024 Coalition for Feminisms in Art Education (formerly the NAEA Women's Caucus) June King McFee award. Thank you so very much to my nominators, to the awards committee, and to everyone who has supported me! Thank you!

- deepen and extend your relationships with your child(ren) through special play and making experiences!

- provide you with provocations that allow you to nurture and to rekindle your own creativity while fostering a creative relationship between you and your child(ren)!

🧵 i am launching a new program with squad art studio! creative family coaching is designed to support caregivers and young children in creating and maintaining a shared creative practice! {more in thread!} visit me @ squadartstudio.com to learn more!

Infertilities, A Curation, forthcoming September 19, with @WSUPress, features poetry and art about infertility and reproductive loss by Douglas Kearney, @rikam99 @betty_poet @marissamcclure and many other artists connected with @artofif. wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/i…

i am so moved to share my artwork in infertilities, a curation edited by @RSilbergleid Maria Novotny and Elizabeth Horn. this work was my lifeline during one of the most traumatic periods of my life. the incredible anthology is available now for pre-order @WSUPress

BREAKING: Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro scores a massive victory by signing into law a historic new program that provides free breakfast to ALL public school students in the state. This is absolutely amazing... A truly staggering 1.7 million students will be eligible for the universal free breakfast program. It will be especially beneficial to lower income students who either can't afford breakfast or who have working parents who are too busy to prepare it. The life-changing program comes as part of Shapiro's 2023-24 budget bill which included a $46.5 million increase in funding for the healthy breakfasts. Each meal must include a grain, fruit, and milk product. Student allergies will be accommodated. "How can we expect kids to learn math and science in English when they come to school on an empty stomach?" said Shapiro. "We can’t." This breakfast program perfectly encapsulates what is possible when our elected officials actually care about the people — and proves that voting for Democrats can really make a change in the lives of average Americans. If this were a Republican governor, he'd be signing tax cuts for the rich and gutting programs instead. Please retweet and ❤️ if you support free breakfasts for students — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a “woke” new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: tribel.app.link/okwPIHYCIqb

i've just updated my Linktree with recommendations for some of my favorite products for young children's art + creativity! linktr.ee/marissasweeny?…

the #squadartstudio exhibition of young children's art opened last weekend at iup's kipp gallery 💕❤️ #earlychildhoodarteduction #communitybasedarteducation #childrensart #montessoriart

In recognition of Mother's Day, check out the special issue of Visual Arts Research with articles by & about motherscholars—those living lives that fuse the experience of raising children to their jobs as educators. cc: @marissamcclure @georgina_badoni scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/var/issue/…

T-MINUS 15 days until the hard launch of our favorite summer campaign #NoNewClothes ♻️🙅‍♀️👚 Our sign-up page is now LIVE and ready for you to sign up to take the challenge: remake.world/2023nonewcloth…

Come join us in Auckland this December! Fantastic keynotes, stunning programme. Would love to see old and new friends on our campus. Still time to submit abstract or panel @AucklandUni

Call for papers for a symposium on "Children's Voices of Migration: Historic and Contemporary Experiences." Abstracts due by 1 June. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

@PinkPeonies this made me cry 💕❤️