Our Mission
Messy Hands Happy Hearts aims to inspire and empower people of all ages in realizing that each and every one of us are creative, happy, loving & compassionate beings.
We do this by incorporating imagination, visual arts & gentle yoga postures to inspire people of all ages to challenge their MINDS, engage their HEARTS & use their HANDS to create, discover, invent, witness, explore, and communicate ideas so as to appreciate themselves and find meaningful connections with each other & the world around them.
Messy Hands Happy Hearts aims to inspire and empower people of all ages in realizing that each and every one of us are creative, happy, loving & compassionate beings.
We do this by incorporating imagination, visual arts & gentle yoga postures to inspire people of all ages to challenge their MINDS, engage their HEARTS & use their HANDS to create, discover, invent, witness, explore, and communicate ideas so as to appreciate themselves and find meaningful connections with each other & the world around them.
About ME - Tiziana D'Angelo or... Ms.Tiz as the kids like to call me
In 1994 I began exploring with colour through painting and soon realized that I had a passion for visual arts.
I started a summer art camp and called it MESSY HANDS because I wanted to share this wonderful 'feeling' of creating with others. Shortly after, I began teaching workshops in schools to both students and teachers. I also began hosting parties because kids realized that art made them SO happy that they wanted it for their birthday too. I decided to combine my love for art and teaching and in 1997 I received my Bachelor of Education.
I was hired with the YCDSB in 1997 and taught within the school system for 2 years. During that time, I remember having a dream about children painting inside a bus. The dream was so vivid and I thought it was such a cool idea, that I decided to take time off from teaching, and manifest this idea of kids painting in a bus. I bought an old school bus, removed the seats, and painted it into a groovy art studio on wheels! In November 1999, the first MESSY HANDS Art Bus was born and grew into several buses plus a studio by 2001!
Click to view our appearance on Breakfast Television when we had 3 Buses and a studio!
In 1994 I began exploring with colour through painting and soon realized that I had a passion for visual arts.
I started a summer art camp and called it MESSY HANDS because I wanted to share this wonderful 'feeling' of creating with others. Shortly after, I began teaching workshops in schools to both students and teachers. I also began hosting parties because kids realized that art made them SO happy that they wanted it for their birthday too. I decided to combine my love for art and teaching and in 1997 I received my Bachelor of Education.
I was hired with the YCDSB in 1997 and taught within the school system for 2 years. During that time, I remember having a dream about children painting inside a bus. The dream was so vivid and I thought it was such a cool idea, that I decided to take time off from teaching, and manifest this idea of kids painting in a bus. I bought an old school bus, removed the seats, and painted it into a groovy art studio on wheels! In November 1999, the first MESSY HANDS Art Bus was born and grew into several buses plus a studio by 2001!
Click to view our appearance on Breakfast Television when we had 3 Buses and a studio!
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I now operated a business with 18 employees, 3 mobile buses and a studio in Hillcrest Mall. All was good but managing all this was a little overwhelming for me. I felt like I no longer controlled my business. My business controlled me. Taking care of messy hands gave me no time for taking care of me and doing what I loved most--painting and teaching the joys of art. This was what my employees did. I realized things needed to change.
In 2011, I said goodbye to the last messy hands bus. I was free as a bird with no buses and no employees.
During these past 4 years, I have been teaching school programs, weekend art classes & summer camps and truly enjoying the joys of teaching.
In the Summer of 2014, I realized that I wanted to re-introduce the concept of the mobile art studio. In the autumn of October 2014, I purchased the new Messy Hands mobile trailer. I am thrilled to once again offer birthday parties, school workshops and be a part of community events in the new mobile art studio!
I have also become a certified children's yoga teacher and will also complete my 200hour Yoga Teacher Training in May 2014. I am so excited to be incorporating yoga tools and techniques into my programs & now also teaching adults too!
I find true inner joy inspiring children (and now adults too) to realize the love, wonder and beauty within themselves through art explorations and yoga. This genuinely makes my heart happy!
In 2011, I said goodbye to the last messy hands bus. I was free as a bird with no buses and no employees.
During these past 4 years, I have been teaching school programs, weekend art classes & summer camps and truly enjoying the joys of teaching.
In the Summer of 2014, I realized that I wanted to re-introduce the concept of the mobile art studio. In the autumn of October 2014, I purchased the new Messy Hands mobile trailer. I am thrilled to once again offer birthday parties, school workshops and be a part of community events in the new mobile art studio!
I have also become a certified children's yoga teacher and will also complete my 200hour Yoga Teacher Training in May 2014. I am so excited to be incorporating yoga tools and techniques into my programs & now also teaching adults too!
I find true inner joy inspiring children (and now adults too) to realize the love, wonder and beauty within themselves through art explorations and yoga. This genuinely makes my heart happy!
