Name: Knitting Communities Together | Learn to Finger Crochet
Start: 2023-05-22T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-06-03T13:00:00-05:00
Location: The Art Center Highland Park

Knitting Communities Together | Learn to Finger Crochet

A not-for-profit visual arts organization since 1960, The Art Center Highland Park (TAC) provides a visual arts education to Highland Park and its surrounding communities, assuring access to the arts for all ages and cultural interests. This vigorous community-centered organization inspires everyone from tots through seniors to achieve and transform their world through more than 400 art classes offered annually in photography, oil and acrylic painting, watercolor, pastel, mixed media painting, ceramics, jewelry making, metalsmithing, digital arts, fiber art, mosaics, assemblage and more. TAC also brings national and regional art of established and emerging artists to our galleries through 20 exhibits of contemporary art each year to the surrounding community and Chicagoland area.TAC MissionThe Art Center Highland Park (TAC) is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to education in the contemporary visual arts through classes, outreach programs, gallery exhibitions and events. TAC is a community- based organization whose goal is to ensure access to the arts for all ages and cultural interests. The Art Center Highland Park is an Illinois 501 (c)3 not for profit organization.

The Art Center Highland Park

Learn a finger crochet technique as part of Knitting Communities Together

Knitting Communities Together is an all-ages, multi-town art project aimed at bringing joy, comfort, and camaraderie to the residents of Highland Park and its neighboring communities. Through the therapeutic and community-building process of knitting, we are calling on residents of Highland Park and the surrounding communities to come together to knit or crochet colorful yarn creations over the course of six weeks, culminating in a colorful and collaborative art installation.The Art Center Highland Park (TAC) will host free, learn-to-finger-crochet class. No experience required, and all supplies will be provided! TAC will also have bins for donated yarn and finished knitting if completed on your own.T﻿AC Class dates: 5﻿/22, 6 pm - 7:30 pm6﻿/1 4 pm - 6 pm6﻿/3 10 am - 1 pm“Coloring Day”, meaning the art installation, will take place on June 29th at 3:30 pm when we will come together in Sunset Woods Park in central Highland Park to wrap trees with our colorful yarn creations. This is an all-inclusive event — all of HP and its surrounding communities are invited to participate in this joyful process!For more information, reach us at info@theartcenterhp.orgA﻿dditional drop-in knitting and crochet opportunities: Park District of Highland Park at West Ridge Center Room 1 on Monday evenings from May 8 – June 19 (excluding Memorial Day) from 6-8 p.m. A non-instructional opportunity for knitters to gather (novice knitters are welcome – knitters love to help others learn!). Two bins will be available – one with donated yarn for all knitters to utilize (or donate to) and another for completed strips of knitted yarn.Other opportunities may arise for knitters to gather – these opportunities will be shared on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092280255796" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Knitting Communities Together 2023 Facebook page</a>. Knitters can share progress, request, or offer yarn to other knitters and learn or post about knitting gatherings. Join today!

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