Presenting a creative adventure in art through stories and painted faces designed to encourage and inspire young artists, with fantastic, colorful folktales like The Rainbow Bat and The Power of the Jaguar; original tales like The Amazing Face Story and Picasso the Thief; plus fun bits of tales from the lives of famous artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Matisse and Monet.
In addition to folktales and original stories, this summer’s show includes material from my arts-in-education program Talking Art — exploring origins, inspirations and appropriations from the history of art, including the fundamental questions of what is art and why do we make it?
Featuring my 5’ x 8’ painting depicting the panoramic history of transformation in art, from Cave Walls to Andy Warhol, plus a D.I.Y. activity for parents and kids to do after the show in which they design a symbolic animal mask using traditional concepts that go back to the origins of art.
From a wide repertoire of stories I select tales to suit each new audience, and to be sure to perform new tales if I’ve been to your library before. A typical performance runs 60 minutes, with 4 or 5 stories involving 5 – 10 volunteers being facepainted onstage as I tell my tales. Like a magician would do, I pick volunteers from the audience to be part of the show onstage while I am also engaging the full audience with my storytelling and additional audience involvement. The content is targeted towards school aged kids and family audiences, including toddlers is ok. I bring a sound system, require no special equipment, and comfortably perform for small groups or audiences of up to 250.
Please contact me with any questions, or to schedule a performance.
Email to: info@agostinoarts.com
For a reference, please contact your colleagues at one of the tri-state libraries I performed at in 2024:
Clifton, NJ • North Bergen, NJ • East Granby, CT • Rockville Library, Vernon, CT • Plattekill, NY • Bronxville, NY • Wyckoff, NJ • Cranford, NJ • Sayreville, NJ • Mattituck and Laurel Libraries, NY • Warren County Libraries, NJ • Hamilton Township, NJ • Deer Park, NY • Sayville, NY • Patchogue-Medford, NY • Long Beach, NY • Centre Moriches, NY • Cresskill, NJ
Christopher Agostino’s StoryFaces is an exciting storytelling show in which I paint the faces of audience volunteers to illustrate the stories as I tell them, captivating the audience with my uniquely animated tales. It is an unusual show, with this unique combination of stories and visual art, so you might also want to watch the video:
See the video: What Is A StoryFace?
—— ALSO AVAILABLE for the Color Our World Theme ——
Our Transformation Facepainting artists can turn your guests into living works of art for library events, re-creating recognizable paintings by famous artists and original designs inspired by fine art. You will be amazed at the quality of the faces and how quickly we paint them — these are all examples of faces painted on guests at events.
Contact us for more information or to schedule an artist, and see the faces at the Art On Your Face Gallery.
