Virtual coloring contest
Crayola is partnering with ArtsQuest for a coloring contest featuring the official Musikfest 2020 poster artwork created by artist and illustrator Doug Boehm. The coloring contest is one of the many visual arts activities being offered this year as part of the virtual festival.
As part of the Musikfest poster coloring contest, Crayola and ArtsQuest will be offering daily prizes featuring Crayola products, as well as one grand prize awarded at the end of the festival. Families can download coloring sheets at www.musikfest.org/lineup/virtual-familienplatz/. Completed sheets can then be sent back via the link on the Virtual Familienplatz webpage. Select entries will also be featured in the Banana Factory’s Instagram stories during Musikfest.
Musikfest has also developed free Take-Home Art Kits that families can pick up to engage in art activities during the festival. The art kits can be picked up at the Banana Factory 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 3-7. In addition, the ArtsQuest Visual Arts Team is developing a series of daily videos that will teach families how to create artwork based on common objects found around the home. Videos will be posted online at www.musikfest.org.
Other visual arts activities as part of Musikfest’s Virtual Familienplatz include Virtual Handwerkplatz — showcasing area artists; “See You Soon!” Postcard Community Art Project presented by Provident Bank and Crayola and Virtual dance parties
For complete details on all of the family and arts activities as part of Musikfest, visit www.musikfest.org.
This project was funded through the Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium and spearheaded by BAPL’s Rayah Levy. The collection focuses on the Black experience in Bethlehem from the mid-20th-century to the present, using oral histories of those who lived it telling their own stories.
Visitors to the site can read the interviews or listen to the recordings of these individuals. A collection of photographs and other historical documents will be added to the project as it continues to grow. To view the project, visit www.bapl.org/ black-bethlehem-project-goeslive
For information contact Rayah Levy at rlevy@bapl.org.