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Little Dolly Workshop & Meet the Artist at lollie

Come get creative at lollie (1312 Chicago Ave., Evanston) with local artist Justine Bianco's new re-paintable doll creation on Sunday, April 27th!

1) Sign up - the cost of the workshop and doll is $120; 8 spots are available

2) Let your child choose desired skin and hair color:

light, medium, dark, extra dark
blond, strawberry blond, red, brown, black

3) Come on April 27th 1pm-2pm and get creative. We will have your doll waiting & signed specially with your child's name

The artist will bring in a real doll mould and talk for a couple minutes about the process of casting plastic. Next we will get to work on our new dolls, learning painting tricks and embellishing them to our imaginations content. Think of the possibilities... fresh painted faces, fingernails, shoes, jewelry, sequin dresses, earrings and fancy hair styles...

Visit our Eventbrite website by April 20 to reserve your spot. Payment, in full, is required to order the doll and reserve a spot in the workshop.


About the Artist

Justine Bianco is a fine artist and mother of three children living in Evanston Il. Born in San Francisco to hippy parents and a world of artists, musicians and performers, her formative world stressed the values of creativity and individuality. Her fortune was being taught from childhood how to paint, sculpt and innovate her own world...

Today, Justine looks at her children and wants to be sure they are able to stand against a culture that suggests consumption of identity. Naturally and like many eight year olds, her daughter Apollonia would be found in her bedroom with expensive dolls cutting their hair and drawing over their faces. After a few silly battles, her frustration inspired the idea to make a new doll where it would be ok for children to explore and recreate a dolls identity. Justine hopes that Dolly Little can be a place for children to innovate to their imagination's content...

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