Our village is a masterpiece. A wide variety of local pubs and restaurants thrive with excitement 7 days a week and a handful of treasures can be found in any one of the many antique stores. Shady streets pave the way for mid day meanders and an ice cream, sushi or frozen yogurt is just […]
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54 Brightly decorated plastic eggs are now hidden in the streets of our village. Each egg contains a log # and puzzle piece. Crawl the streets in search of your favorite egg. Help expose the entire puzzle by logging your egg’s number in the below comments… find a bonus egg, identify the village sound and […]
The sun stretches low as a crisp Christmas morning in the Carlsbad village invites families and friends. Children bundled up in fuzzy sweaters trample down the shady sidewalks and parents sip their first cup. City workers rake leaves and pick up debris as an observant child stares into a tree. A crafted ornament in purples […]
Did you find one of the 50 crafted ornaments? They are currently scattered in the village streets. Log the ornament number below as a comment and… don’t forget to include a description of your ornament! Project begins Christmas morning!!! Click HERE for more info on the project!
Friends and family met again at the ARTpartment to create crafts for this year’s Project: Plant an Ornament 2009 on December 21st, 2009. The night consisted of tons of laughter and a wide range of creativity! Thanks for all who participated and thanks for all the birthday wishes! Keep your eyes open Christmas morning!
Naked Christmas ornaments hang from the walls and a table stresses, laden with feathers, pipe cleaners, cotton balls and other crafts. A fridge swells with snacks and refreshments and glue guns sit motionless like the seconds before a mid Western shoot out. The ARTpartment again comes alive for this year’s craft night in preparation for […]
PROJECT: Plant a Joke- a creative afFair
Published November 2nd, 2009 in art and projects. 1 CommentThousands of locals and Carlsbad guests crawled the village streets during this year’s November Village Street Fair. The sun quickly awoke and danced high in the blue sky above hundreds of vendors. While sneakers scampered upon hot asphalt, crowing poultry scratched in the shady village landscaping… 15 individually painted roosters used the village streets as […]
Many have asked whether carlsbadcrawl will be doing Project: Plant a Pumpkin this year. We have decided to skip that project for 2009 for a variety of reasons. Taking its place will be a new one… Project: Plant a joke! Starting this morning, and for the duration of the Carlsbad Street Fair, 16 individually painted […]
Art is omnipresent, it is in everything and all around us. The most mundane appliances or structures can be critiqued in terms of color, composition and conceptual reasoning, ultimately revealing artistic merit. A toaster, a camera and a bicycle are all used, but rarely analyzed. To encourage a visual observation and mental analysis, I have […]
Plant an Egg 2009 consisted of 75 brightly decorated eggs, all which were created during a preliminary craft night at the ARTpartment. Out of the 75 eggs, 5 were specially painted by Snyder Art and designated as “Bonus Eggs.” These eggs offered the chance to win an orginal Snyder Art painting and contained special instructions […]
75 Brightly decorated plastic eggs are now hidden in the streets of our village. Each egg contains a log # and puzzle piece. Crawl the streets in search of your favorite egg. Help expose the entire puzzle by logging your egg’s number in the below comments… and win a SNYDER ART painting. Click HERE to […]
We hear (sorry KT) there are a bunch of boring eggs in need of a creative beat down. Pick your weapon and show these bare eggs what you are made of during a night of drinks, egg decorating and other shenanigans at the ARTpartment. This is a preliminary craft night for a PROJECT: Plant an […]
We would like to thank all the participants in carlsbadcrawl.com’s most recent public art project, Plant an Ornament 2008. Like other projects, our goal was to promote the Carlsbad village while uniting its community through creativity and local art. Would you like to be part of a carlsbadcrawl.com project? Do you enjoy expressing ideas and […]
Log the number and a description of your found ornament in the below comments! Click HERE for info and a map of the ornament locations! Click HERE for photos of all the ornaments! Click HERE for the project conclusion! Past Projects: NOTE: Project begins Christmas Day!!!!
December 21st is the first day of Winter, the Winter solstice and the longest night of the year. This day has held important significance in many past cultures. Seasonal changes have informed animals when to mate and farmers have used this astrological alarm to sow crops and meter reserves. For us at Carlsbadcrawl, it marks […]
Would you like to be part of our newest project? Come join us at the ARTpartment for a night of creativity, rambles, Christmas ornament decorating and other shenanigans. We will also be celebrating the Winter Solstice and a carlsbadcrawler birthday. Ornaments, crafts, snacks and inspiration provided! • WHERE: the ARTpartment (ask for directions) • WHEN: […]
We would like to thank all the participants in carlsbadcrawl’s most recent public art project, Plant a Pumpkin. Like other projects, our goal was to unite our community through art and creativity. In project: Plant a Pumpkin, we chose to involve local pubs, cafes, stores, eateries and community centers as a way to promote the […]
Log the number and a description of your found pumpkin in the below comments! Click HERE for info and a map of the pumpkin locations! Click HERE for photos of all the pumpkins!
Would you like to be part of our newest project? Come join us at the ARTpartment for a night of creativity, rambles, pumpkin decorating and other shenanigans. BYOPumpkin(s)…crafts and inspiration provided! • WHERE: the ARTpartment (ask for directions) • WHEN: Wed. Oct. 29th… When the moon is at its fullest! • WHY: to partake in […]
Carlsbadcrawl would like to thank all whom participated in out most recent project: Artist at work. The response to our cones has been incredible. Everyone from Roger the Local Juggler to the North County Times has shown interest. Its been a great experience and we feel in a sense, large or small, we brought together […]
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