Jun 23 2016
Neighborhood Art Celebration: #ward4akron

Neighborhood Art Celebration: #ward4akron

Presented by City of Akron, Community Events Division at Buchtel Community Learning Center

The Neighborhood Art Celebration is an opportunity for each community to embrace their local arts and individuals to cultivate their own artistic knowledge with a focus on music, visual arts, gardening and more!  Come to one celebration or come to them all.  Free for all ages!

FEATURED AT EACH CELEBRATION:

Sustainable arts – Unconventional Potting

In partnership with Keep Akron Beautiful, we will learn about beautifying our land and programs that are offered in Akron. Keep Akron Beautiful will display a variety of unconventional potting examples, and explain how to re-use existing household materials for easy container gardening. Community members will have an opportunity to create and plant their own unconventional pot. For those up for more of a challenge, an origami newspaper pot workshop will be held. For other community members, unconventional containers such as soup cans will be provided for planting. We will supply the materials (newspaper, soil, unconventional potting, flowers) and encourage the community to have an open mind on sustainable options for container gardening.

Community Art – My Neighborhood, Our Akron art wall

Participants will be encouraged to post the favorite thing they love about their neighborhood on the art wall.  Maybe it’s your favorite restaurant or your wonderful neighbors, or maybe it’s the wonderful memories that you had growing up. Share a piece of your heart on the Community Art Wall.

Visual Arts- Decoupaged seats

Post your favorite neighborhood photos, community landmarks, and local architcture so we can use them at the celebration. These photos will be printed and participants will decoupage them on to chairs to create a unique, one-of-a-kind seat that will be installed locally.  These unique chairs will serve as reminders to why each community is different and unique in Akron!

Thursday, June 23 – #ward4akron – Buchtel CLC, 1040 Copley Rd.

Admission Info

FREE!

Dates & Times

2016/06/23 - 2016/06/23

Location Info

Buchtel Community Learning Center

1040 Copley Road, Akron, OH 44320