Kristin Cafferty ART

Kristin Cafferty ART Artist, former public school art teacher, and believer that creativity isn't reserved for artists or kids.

My hope is to help you notice beauty, make something meaningful, and live a little more creatively every day ❤️ Connecticut Shoreline Artist

08/31/2026

A little sketching, a LOT of color, and plenty of creative decisions along the way. 🐸🎨💚

Same frog. Same canvas. Completely different young artists.

Because the magic isn’t in everyone making the same thing—it’s in watching each student decide what THEIR frog should become. ✨

08/31/2026

🏰✨ The castle has officially found its home!

After weeks of painting, cutting, arranging, gluing—and trying to make hundreds of little creative decisions play nicely together—our collaborative castle is now hanging in the Children’s Room at Scranton Memorial Library! 💗

Every single “brick” was created by one of my summer artists, which means this castle is literally built from their imaginations. And THAT is my favorite kind of architecture. 🎨

Go visit it while it reigns over the Children’s Room this year! 👑

Upcoming Kristin Cafferty Kid art classes for September!!Diver Collage - Thursday, 9/17 - 4:30-5:30 - ages 5-8.Registrat...
08/30/2026

Upcoming Kristin Cafferty Kid art classes for September!!

Diver Collage - Thursday, 9/17 - 4:30-5:30 - ages 5-8.
Registration opens on 9/10, @ 4:30 https://scranton.librarycalendar.com/event/art-kristin-little-swimmer-collage-67137

Outer space design - Wednesday, 9/23 - 4:30-5:30 - ages 8-12.
Registration opens on 9/16, @ 4:30: https://scranton.librarycalendar.com/index.php/event/art-kristin-outer-space-canvas-67138

Also!! Our next Young Artists Workshop Series will be in October!! All new projects! Ages 8-12! 4:30-5:30! THIS CLASS BOOKS UP FAST!!! Registration opens September 17, @ 4:30pm: https://scranton.librarycalendar.com/event/young-artist-workshop-series-68114

08/30/2026

A little Sunday note from me. ❤️
I've spent a lot of time over the past year trying to figure out what comes next.
And somewhere along the way, I think I stopped trying quite so hard to figure it out. I'm painting. I'm teaching. I'm making things. I'm building things. I'm trying ideas. Some are working. Some definitely are not. 😂
But I'm realizing that maybe we don't need a perfectly mapped-out next chapter before we're allowed to begin it.
Sometimes we just make the next choice. And then another.
And eventually we look back and realize: Oh. Look where I ended up.If you're figuring something out right now too, I'm rooting for you. — Kristin

08/29/2026

Instead of telling a child, “You’re so talented!” try telling them what you noticed. ❤️

“I love how you mixed those colors.”
“That was an interesting material to choose.”
“I noticed you changed your plan when something didn’t work.”
“Look at all the different lines you used!”

Because when we only praise the finished product, kids can start to believe that being “good at art” means making something neat, beautiful or perfect.

But creativity lives in the choices.
The experimenting.
The problem solving.
The techniques.
The happy accidents.
The “Hmm…what if I tried this?”

That’s the stuff I want kids to recognize in themselves.

Don’t just praise the picture.

Praise the thinking that created it. 🎨❤️

08/29/2026

🚨 STOP. THE. CUTENESS. 🚨

Tiny clay monsters. Big personalities. Absolutely ZERO chill. 😂👹🎨

I cannot handle them. That is all.

08/29/2026

WHY I MADE THIS: Signs in Ink ✨

I didn’t want to create another gift that was simply opened…and forgotten.

I wanted opening it to feel like an experience—layer after layer of beautiful, personal things chosen around one person and their zodiac sign.

Art. Words. A journal. Crystals. Little rituals. Things to discover, use and keep.

A gift that feels like saying, “I saw this and thought of YOU.”

That’s why I created Signs in Ink. 🌙✨

Choose their zodiac sign—or your own—and discover everything tucked inside at KristinCaffertyArt.com.

The Stars Chose You. ✨

08/28/2026

I like being an artist.
But I LOVE being a teacher. ❤️
There. I said it.
As I head into my second year of retirement, I can finally see something that took me a little while to figure out:
I didn’t need to stop teaching.
I needed to stop teaching the way I had been teaching.
After 30 years in public education, my mind, body and spirit needed some serious recovery time. (Turns out running on bells, schedules and approximately 47 things happening at once takes a toll. 😂)
And somewhere in all that healing, creating, painting, teaching classes and figuring out who I am in this next chapter…I rediscovered something.
I still absolutely LOVE helping kids create.
I love watching them take a risk.
I love hearing, “WAIT! I have an idea!”
I love helping them trust their own decisions instead of asking, “Is this right?”
And I love showing parents that creativity isn’t just about raising little artists.
It’s about raising kids who can imagine, problem-solve, experiment, adapt and believe their ideas are worth exploring.
I don’t want to go back to a classroom every day.
But I DO want to teach.
And I want to find a way to reach a whole lot more kids—and help families understand how to nurture the creativity that is already inside them.
So…I’ve been working on something. 👀
Something that feels like 30 years of teaching, a lifetime of making art, and this whole strange, wonderful second chapter of mine coming together.
I’m not quite ready to tell you everything yet.
But stay tuned.
I think you’re going to like where this is going. ❤️🎨

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