'Senior Adult Club' Creates Tea Bag Art.

Ever heard of the book "363 Days of Tea: A Visual Journal on Used Tea Bags" by Ruby Silvious?

An older artist's high school sketchbook serves as inspiration for tea bag art.

The artist from the Senior Adult Club participating in my 10-week artist residency at the Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg were inspired this week by Silvious' tea bag art. Using week-long daily creative exercises in their class sketchbooks they set to work being creative. One participant used drawings from her high school sketchbook as inspiration.

Using tea bags as stamps.

Stamping on coffee filters.

Tea bags with the tea removed serve as miniature canvases.

The artist used the tea bags (and a few coffee filters) as their canvas. They painted on, stamped on, colored on and sketched on tea bags. They mushed them in paint and used them as the stamp on paper. And, they created a collaborative collage with them. The outcomes were steeped in creativity.

Artists add their tea bags to a collaborative piece.

The artist residency is an Arts in Education program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Jump Street, and The Foundation for Enhancing Communities.

Painting miniature beads on a tea bag.

Colorful tea bags and colorful art.