SQUAD Art Studio

07/16/2026

Anthropology of Motherhood with .repost
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Join us for Brown Moon | Play Date 🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘
JULY 25, 10-12pm @ KST Alloy Studios
5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15206

🤎 Brown Moon | Play Date invites children, caregivers, and community members of all ages—especially those ages 3–7—into a participatory experience exploring musical storytelling around the phases of the moon together. Blending shared activities, the experience encourages collective authorship, imagination, and reflection across generations. Free & open to the public.

Play Date is part of and collaborative residency for caregiving creatives.

Free Registration at: tinyurl.com/trjyk4hf (Link in bio).
Learn more at anthropologyofmotherhood.com.

💙 2026-2027 Artist-in-Residence Melike Konour Melike Vivastine Konur is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural worker, and single parent. Her practice moves across music, performance, research, and storytelling, and is grounded in memory, lineage, and care. She creates work that listens deeply to histories carried in the body and voice, particularly those shaped by migration, matriarchal knowledge, and lived experience.

💗 Marissa McClure Sweeny, Residency Mentor, is a transdisciplinary educator, artist, and scholar working across early childhood, art and museum education, and feminist pedagogies. She serves as Director of the Online EdD Program in Art Education, Museum Education, and Visitor-Centered Curation at Florida State University. She is founder of SQUAD Art Studio, an inter-generational community-based art studio for children and their caregivers and co-founder of The Scribble Squad, an international collective of motherartists and motherscholars.

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07/16/2026

we'd love for you to join us for the second brown moon playdate residency! a collaboration between RADIANT HALL The Anthropology of Motherhood and SQUAD Art Studio! the link to register and the program description appears here! please let me know if you have any questions!

🎨Have you ever wondered what would happen if your child wasn’t just watching art happen—but helping make it? 👋🏾

If your answer is yes (or you’re simply curious), join multidisciplinary artist Melike Konur for Brown Moon, the second Play Date workshop in a three-part residency exploring what becomes possible when children are invited into the creative process as collaborators.

🎉 Brown Moon | Play Date 🎨🖌️
JULY 25, 10-12PM @ KST Alloy Studios
5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Free Registration at: tinyurl.com/trjyk4hf

Created with and inspired by Melike’s own journey of making art alongside her son, Brown Moon PlayDate invites children and caregivers—especially ages 3–7—into an imaginative, intergenerational experience inspired by the changing phases of the moon. 🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘

Together we’ll tell stories, play, imagine, create, and wonder. There are no perfect outcomes—only shared discovery, collective authorship, and the joy of making something together.

Come as you are. Bring your curiosity. Leave with a story only your family could have created.

Play Date is part of and collaborative residency for caregiving creatives.
Learn more at anthropologyofmotherhood.com.

Image Description: Layered brown paper with wrinkled texture and glitter in a circle moon shape, red paper cut in a thin frame around the edge, and other cut bits of paper and supplies to depict the creative process.

06/16/2026

What if supporting creativity at home wasn’t about doing more?

In Episode 3 of Studio Sessions, I share practical, low-pressure ways to weave creativity into your everyday routines through thoughtful environments, accessible materials, and small shifts that make making feel possible.

As both a researcher and a parent, I know that most caregivers don’t need another thing on their to-do list. We need ideas that fit into the life we’re already living.

Creativity doesn’t have to be another task.
It can become part of the rhythm of your home.

🎙️ Studio Sessions, Episode 3: Making Creativity Easier to Reach

05/11/2026

welcome to our first studio session! please feel free to comment below with questions that you'd like to explore together!

04/23/2026

We're thrilled to be nominated for the for four years running! Despite not offering in-person classes in Indiana this year, we're dedicated to empowering families and caregivers through art. Thanks to Indiana County for recognizing the value of art for children!

04/22/2026

Something is always happening in the studio.

Moments that are easy to miss,
but hard to stop thinking about.

This podcast is a place to stay with those moments a little longer.

To notice what children are doing, and what it might mean for all of us 💫

Studio Sessions: the SQUAD Art Studio podcast.

Coming soon, here.

04/14/2026

that's a wrap for the 9th (!!) annual SQUAD art studio exhibition!! it's my favorite evening of the year 💫💕🎨

an absolutely tremendous thank you to all of the children and families who participated in this year's SQUAD x Great Expectations after school program! thank you to the for sponsoring such a lovely + meaningful time! and thank you to the incredible for providing the venue for our show and for all that they contribute to our community!!

we can't wait to see everyone back for season 10!!!

01/05/2026

i am so delighted to announce a new collaboration -- Play Date: a 10-month Residency for parenting artists in collaboration with RADIANT HALL, SQUAD Art Studio, The Anthropology of Motherhood, and Carlow University!
if you are interested, please feel free to reach out with any questions that you might have! the interest form is linked below!

PLAYDATE RESIDENCY
10-month parenting artist residency of + Play Date development in collaboration with Anthropology of Motherhood, SQUAD Art Studio, and Carlow University
Residency begins Spring 2026
Deadline for interest forms Jan. 16
bit.ly/aomplaydate

12/11/2025

Hey SQUAD families! We have the incredible opportunity to share our work in a national exhibition! If you would like for your child's work to be included, please either comment below or reach out to me at [email protected]! I would LOVE to feature our work in this way!

08/04/2025

with .repost
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treehouses galore + more 🌴🪾🌳one of my all-time favorites for preK-2s 🤩inspired by .creativityproject 💕such a captivating experience, it's always so incredible to see what the kids engineer when provided with inspiration, abundant materials, and support! there are pulleys, secret passageways, ladders, elevators + skyscrapers! camp with me 😊