We threw a pre-Halloween party with the kids at Bellevue Hospital! 🎃 12 kids decorated masks and drew Draculas, goblins, and pumpkins while rocking out to some spooky tunes. Thanks to all the kids & volunteers for such a spooctacular time!!

Some more sweet pics from this year’s #ReubenAwards!🏅We’re proud of the Ink Well Kids volunteers honored this year and always so grateful to be part of this incredibly talented community. Next year's Reubens and @NatCartoonSoc Conference is in San Diego August 12–14. #cartoon

Such a special day with the children at @StMarysKidsNY! Both artists & kids drew portraits of one another, filling in colors & shapes, inspired by the brilliant walls of our music & rec room surroundings. Wishing one & all a gorgeous finale to summer!💗

So proud to celebrate 20 years of Ink Well Kids!!! Most meaningful of all is just knowing that together we have brought smiles, laughter, and new arts skills to beautiful kids who deserve all the attention and encouragement in the world. Here's to many more special moments ahead.

Can't believe it's been 20 YEARS!!! Looking through sweet photos of our first days bringing professional animators, cartoonists, and illustrators together with children at health and foster care centers and feeling honored to have shared so many meaningful moments. ❤️

How to make clay hibiscus grow: sun showers, pistil power, and pollinator kisses. Thx to @lalalabracio for this special #StopMotion day. And huge gratitude to @Blick_Art for supporting all our free activities w/ children at hospitals & foster care through donated art supplies!💝

Some behind the scenes of our phenomenal day, teaching @NACKidsCan about #claymation! Thanks to @lalalabracio and volunteers for planting seeds of creativity that will grow for years to come! 🪴🌷🌻 #StopMotionAnimation #NYCvolunteer #NYCanimation #FosterCare

Our #stopmotion guru @lalalabracio helped the @NACKidsCan children make clay gardens grow, frame by frame! Watch as their poppies, pollinators, peacocks, panthers and more play in the springtime sun. ☀️🌷 #StopMotionAnimation #NYCvolunteer #NYCanimation #FosterCare

The Ink Well Kids crew was at Bellevue Hospital for March of the Robots! Using sticky shapes, reflective paper, googly eyes, and heaps of imagination, the kids designed their very own rad robot characters. One boy announced, "I made a Medical Robot that helps people!" 🤖

Our flower-powered @NACKidsCan event was the perfect way to celebrate spring blooms! 🌷 Each child designed unique tissue paper pipe cleaner bouquets and shared them with their mentors, family, and friends. Then they each got their own art kits to keep on creating.... 💕

Heartwarming Valentine's at @StMarysKidsNY Hospital! We helped the kids create adorable scenes like love-struck SpongeBobs, Elmos, & Berts beaming about hearts & friends forever 💕 Thx to @Blick_Art who donated the scalloped notecards & cardboard frames. The kids loved them all!

Just in time for the holidays, we teamed up with the kids at Bellevue Hospital to help them make drawings to give to family & friends as gifts: reindeer sailed through the skies, Sonic screamed down the slopes, & Titan TV Man stomped around looking for presents. 🤖🎄

The last of our handmade cards were delivered to the children at Bellevue Hospital this very morn! Thanks so much to the Ink Well Kids crew who helped to share the gift of art this holiday season and all year round. ❤️🎄💚

What a beautiful day, drawing with the kids at @StMarysKidsNY! We’ve been coming here for nearly 20 years but each time feels only more meaningful, especially around the holidays. #InkWellKids @AdrianSinnott

Thanks to @stephenkroninger for these very cool Christmas #collage cards for the children being served at Bellevue Hospital over the holidays. #CuteKitty

Snowmen, astronauts, and aliens alike could all use a little holiday cheer. Thanks to #animation superstar, Pedro Delgado, for sending these adorable hand-made cards to the kids being served at Bellevue Hospital.

Another beautiful #watercolor on its way to the kids at Bellevue Hospital. Thanks to our long-time volunteer, @AdrianSinnott, for this merry mouse sighting ☺️ 🐭

We don't monkey around when it comes to making something special for our Ink Well Kids! Thanks to volunteer, Bil Donovan for these handmade cards, on their way to children overstaying the holidays at Bellevue Hospital. #Handmade #watercolorpainting #watercolorart

So good to see our NYC volunteers for a little pre-holiday cheer last night. Thank you for making everything we do here possible!! 🤗🎄❤️

Our handmade cards for the children overstaying the holidays at Bellevue Hospital are on their way in Santa's sleigh! Elana Amity kicked things off with these North Pole cuties. #HandmadeCards #Illustration #ArtHeals