Tote bags: Expressive Fabric Painting with Cultivate Hell's Kitchen/Clinton Housing

With residents and staff of Clinton Housing, we expressed our dreams and hopes through painting on fabric tote bags. The key to painting on a canvas tote bag is to keep a cardboard insert inside the bag, directly underneath the painted area. We used kraft manilla folders and they worked great. Meaningful, inspired spring-and-Easter-themed creations emerged -- functional art that relays an uplifting message.