Jacki Kellum Telling a Story at Square Books Jr, in Oxford Free Story Hour Every Saturday Morning at 9:30 26 South Main Street | Water Valley, Mississippi Most people in Water Valley do not realize this, but before I moved back to the South, I was a professional storyteller in New Jersey. Because I love…
The Artist’s Way on Wednesdays – A Free Event Challenge from Jacki Kellum Studios Breakfast Club — A Program for Blocked Creatives
Beginning today, Jacki Kellum will offer a free online challenge: Write Morning Pages to restore your inner balance, to restore your creativity, and to make yourself whole. Although writing is the vehicle for restoration, Writing Morning Pages is not merely for writers. Writing Morning Pages is an activity that will help EVERYONE function more creatively….
Tuesdays with Tomie – Jacki Kellum Studios Free Breakfast Club Program – Practicing Turning Our Memories into Picture Books – Begins September 9, 2025
For too many reasons to name, Children’s Literature is my favorite genre to read and study. While Tomie de Paola is not my favorite Picture Book Creator, he is the best I know to study to learn to turn memories into picture books. Because de Paola is both a prolific writer and an illustrator, he…
Push Yourself – Keep Learning to Stay Young & Productive
While I watched my carpenter install my new door sign and Push Plate today, I thought that this plate needs to be the motto of Jacki Kellum Studios — Push! Here I am — “pushing” 76, and I’m pushing myself to start a new business, but I am also asking people around me to push…
Memoir Mondays – A Free Writing Platform Begins September 8 at Jacki Kellum Studios & School of Arts – Harvest Your Past
I am an advocate of Morning Pages — of Writing Each Morning — to Free One’s Creativity. For that reason, I am offering the Water Valley Breakfast Club as a time and place to congregate and Free Write together. The Best News is that the Breakfast Club is Free–both monetarily and in terms of its…
Fashion Design Class & Drawing People for Middle Schoolers and Teens
While I was living in New Jersey, I taught a great group of girls a class in fashion design. The primary focus was to help these girls learn to draw and paint people. Another objective was that of teaching the facets of creative mixed media design, The third objective is to help students explore Fashion…
Art for Kids – Learn to Draw Realistically, to Shade & Learn Cartooning
The above images were created by one of my students who was aged 10. I started teaching this student to shade with colored pencils when she was in the second grade. When children enter elementary school, they become progressively more sensitive about the opinions of their classmates, and they seek a teacher who helps them…
Art for Tots Classes at Jacki Kellum School of Arts – Water Valley, MS – A Creative Arts Program
Very young children have a natural ability to paint that they inevitably lose if steps are not taken to preserve that ability. Too often, parents wait until their children are older before they provide art classes for them. But that is a mistake. A creative arts instructional program– from a properly trained instructor–is crucial for…
Free Breakfast Club Coming to 26 South Main in Water Valley, MS — Great for Writers
Early morning is the most crucial time of my day, and according to several authors I trust, it is the essential time for writers to prime their pumps. “I have learned, on my journeys, that if I let a day go by without writing, I grow uneasy. Two days and I am in tremor. Three…
Children’s Bookstore, Free Saturday Story Hour, & Family Book Club Coming to Water Valley
Today, as I was packing the things I am taking to my new arts space in Water Valley, I made sure that some bookcases and children’s books were amidst the loads of arts supplies. For me, the word “arts” has a broad definition. I paint, draw, write, make textile arts, etc. But writing for children…