Christy Rec Center

Music + Dance + Artmaking + Refreshments. Express your inner being and find the rhythms within yourself with each stroke of the drum skins!Music + Dance + Artmaking + Refreshments. Express your inner being and find the rhythms within yourself with each stroke of the drum skins! Join us for the final art club event of 2024 led by award winning artist and percussionist, Karen Smith.Cobbs Creek Art Club at Christy Rec Center is a free bi weekly art workshop for all ages from youth to adults. It's a space to try something new and express your creativity with a

Learn how to make Mandalas using geometric shapes and symbols that are meaningful to youMandala, which means 'circle', in Sanskrit, is a geometric configuration of symbols. Mandalas can be used for focusing attention and as an aid to meditation. Join us on Wednesday Nov 6th from 5:30-7:30pm at Christy Rec Center (55th and Christian st) for a Mandala workshop led by Kris Casañas. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create a mandala that is meaningful to you using geometric shapes and symbols.  Cobbs Creek Art Club at Christy Rec Center is a free bi weekly art workshop for all ages

Learn embroidery techniques and create symbols of home to decorate your custom tote bag.Join us on Wednesday September 25th at Christy Rec Center for a sewing workshop by Kate Welbes. Kate will guide us through embroidery techniques as we design symbols of home and create custom tote bags. This workshop will be for all ages.Cobbs Creek Art Club is a free bi weekly art workshop for all ages from youth to adults. It's a space to try something new and express your creativity with a focus on community building. No experience necessary, only a willingness to explore and create with

Create vibrant and abstracted self portraits through story telling and story sharingIn this workshop, students will be guided in creating vibrant and abstracted self portraits. We will have discussion about how creating art can support the process of identity-building, memory and storytelling. Before drawing, I will lead students through an interviewing/ storytelling exercise with each other, and they will have the opportunity to discover which parts of themselves they are interested in sharing in their portrait. In their art piece, they have the option to portray their face or full body, their cultural background, life stories, family. They will also

Come join us at Christy Rec to help design artful activations along 63rd street.This Fall Amber Art and Design, Clean Air Council, and Tiny WPA will be creating public art installations along 63rd street and we need your help to inspire the designs. Four Cobbs Creek Park entrances will be improved to invite more families into the park at safe Parkway crossings and offer play and learning spaces for children. Park entrances will include asphalt art on the paved trail and areas for children and families to learn and play together. Come and join us for an evening of creativity,

Come join us at Christy Rec for the Art Club, where creativity and fun collide.Art Club at Christy RecBring your own fabric/ blank tote bags/ old clothes to create unique designs with hand cut stencils! Join us on Wednesday Feb 7th from 5:30-730pm at Christy Rec Center, 728 S 55th St. In this workshop you’ll learn how to create your own stencil and use it to decorate just about anything.