Are you a leatherworker or interested in learning more about leatherworking? Join us for a leatherworking meetup. Bring your current hand work to show off or to get feedback/assistance. Meet and socialize with folks who share your same passion. Hang out and cut, tool or stain in the Makerspace.   

Experts to Novices welcome. 

This is a free event. Please register so we can plan appropriate use of the space. 

Dreaming about a relaxing way to spend the last few minutes at work? Over the course of two Sunday afternoons, this DIY Zen Garden class will teach you how to cut and assemble a basic box and a tiny rake to manicure your “garden”. You will also learn the ins and outs of cutting and sanding to create a high quality piece of artwork. In practicing these skills, students will take home a custom DIY Zen Garden. Students should know the basics of measurement, and have proficiency with a protractor and angle measurements. (Note: these are all skills taught in the Intro to Woodshop classes.)

There is a fee for this class. Registration is required and space is limited.

This is an introductory course to learn about clay and the hand building process, so you learn how to build a relationship with the clay. Students will be hand building personal cups that they can use in their day to day life to remind them to be mindful. No previous clay experience is needed.

Students will use the Soffritto technique to carve into the clay to personalize their very own tea or coffee mug. 

The class runs for 5 weeks, with an option for a Saturday Open Lab time for any additional creative work students want to complete before Glazing and Firing in the last 2 weeks. 

Optionally, students should bring with them to class the following ribbon carving tool set. There will be tools provided as part of the class, but students can more fully personalize their own tools, bending and reshaping them to their vision if they like. Link to tools: https://smile.amazon.com/Sculpture-Sculpting-Ribbon-Cutter-Carving/dp/B01FJQ14NQ

Mary Beth is a local artist who is disciplined in many different mediums including, painting, print making and ceramics. She is a current student at IU Kokomo, and is near graduation with her degree in Fine Arts with a minor in Psychology. She plans to continue on to earn her Master’s in Fine Arts. Mary Beth is an active participant and workshop teacher at the Sol Sisters Collective Gallery in Kokomo. She has also served the community of Kokomo teaching art as a volunteer for New Leaf Mentoring, and the Logansport Juvenile Corrections Facility. In the past few years she has also worked as an artist in residency at Carroll Schools where she taught screen printing and watercolor painting. Mary Beth draws her inspiration from her spiritual practices, books she has read, music, and time spent in nature. She uses her art as a way to highlight and express the sacred in the every day. She believes that art should be about creating meaning, which is why she calls herself a meaning maker. Her recent focus has been on painting in the Visionary Art style, and she recently studied under Visionary Artist Amanda Sage. Outside of her at home studio, Mary Beth can often be found at music festivals throughout the Midwest co-creating alongside performing musicians, usually painting but at times sculpting clay. Mary Beth is passionate about what clay can teach us and is experienced in an array of techniques and styles. She is thrilled to be able to share her knowledge, passion and enthusiasm with others here at SHAK. She is hopeful that others will find their passion for it, too.

There is a fee for this class. Registration is required.

Local artist Rebecca Rayls will share the steps to make Artist Trading Cards (ATCs). ATCs represent an artist’s style and are traded among artists around the world. You will be making three cards, one to keep, one to trade with someone at the program and one to exhibit in the “Artist Trading Cards: A Collaborative Cultural Performance” show at the KHCPL Main Gallery in December.

If you have special items you would like to incorporate into your art please feel free to bring them.

This is a free event. Registration is not required but will help in preparing available supplies.

Best of Both Worlds will be taking place at Kokomo Speedway as the night will feature the B.O.S.S Non-Wing sprints and the FAST winged sprint cars!

There’s not a better place to see the best drivers compete, you might even see a few do both!

Kids 12 and under are free and there will be a Pinata!

General Admission- $20

Pit Pass- $35

Pit Gate opens at 3PM

Grandstands at 4PM

Drivers Meeting at 5:30

Cars on track at 6PM with racing to follow!

http://www.buckeyesprints.com/

https://www.fastondirt.com/

http://www.kokomospeedway.net/

This is an introductory course to learn about clay and the hand building process, so you learn how to build a relationship with the clay. Students will be hand building personal cups that they can use in their day to day life to remind them to be mindful. No previous clay experience is needed.

Students will use the Soffritto technique to carve into the clay to personalize their very own tea or coffee mug. 

The class runs for 5 weeks, with an option for a Saturday Open Lab time for any additional creative work students want to complete before Glazing and Firing in the last 2 weeks. 

Optionally, students should bring with them to class the following ribbon carving tool set. There will be tools provided as part of the class, but students can more fully personalize their own tools, bending and reshaping them to their vision if they like. Link to tools: https://smile.amazon.com/Sculpture-Sculpting-Ribbon-Cutter-Carving/dp/B01FJQ14NQ

Mary Beth is a local artist who is disciplined in many different mediums including, painting, print making and ceramics. She is a current student at IU Kokomo, and is near graduation with her degree in Fine Arts with a minor in Psychology. She plans to continue on to earn her Master’s in Fine Arts. Mary Beth is an active participant and workshop teacher at the Sol Sisters Collective Gallery in Kokomo. She has also served the community of Kokomo teaching art as a volunteer for New Leaf Mentoring, and the Logansport Juvenile Corrections Facility. In the past few years she has also worked as an artist in residency at Carroll Schools where she taught screen printing and watercolor painting. Mary Beth draws her inspiration from her spiritual practices, books she has read, music, and time spent in nature. She uses her art as a way to highlight and express the sacred in the every day. She believes that art should be about creating meaning, which is why she calls herself a meaning maker. Her recent focus has been on painting in the Visionary Art style, and she recently studied under Visionary Artist Amanda Sage. Outside of her at home studio, Mary Beth can often be found at music festivals throughout the Midwest co-creating alongside performing musicians, usually painting but at times sculpting clay. Mary Beth is passionate about what clay can teach us and is experienced in an array of techniques and styles. She is thrilled to be able to share her knowledge, passion and enthusiasm with others here at SHAK. She is hopeful that others will find their passion for it, too.

There is a fee for this class. Registration is required.