Wintercraft Open House & Holiday Sale


Date:

Saturday December 1st, 2018

Time:

10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Place:

Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave, Rochester NY

Join us for our annual Open House! Come get in the holiday spirit by making crafts and shopping for holiday gifts; see free demos or participate in letterpress, ceramic, and book arts activities. Join us for a unique holiday gift buying experience that will let you enjoy all that is offered by the Flower City Arts Center. Great fun for the entire family!

EXHIBITS

The Good Things...come in small packages exhibit will be in the Firehouse Gallery. Juried by ceramicist Lydia Johnson. All work is under 8", and available for purchase.

Family Photographs is on display in the 2nd floor Photography Gallery. Juried by Sara Macel, the exhibit explores the ideas of family, memory, intimacy, or domesticity through the use of contemporary and/or archival photography.

Mudbooks will be on exhibit in the Joe Brown Gallery. See collaborative works of art from our ceramic and bookmaking studio artists.

SHOPPING

Printmaking & Book Arts will have various letterpress and printed holiday cards and posters for sale in the Letterpress Studio. Don't forget to purchase a copy of our 2019 calendar, too!

The Photo Shop is our new retail space where you can browse photographic works of art from our past and present.

Studio artists will have work available to purchase throughout the Arts Center.

ACTIVITIES

Get some ink on your fingers and print your own bookmark or holiday card! You will also be able to create one-of-a-kind posters printing from legos in our Printmaking Studio.

Make your own gingerbread ornament and see demonstrations of ceramic arts in our Ceramics Studio.

See demonstrations in our Lighting Studio.

Create your own cyanotype print in our Community Darkroom.

Make sure that you and your tykes put on your dancing shoes! Enjoy live music throughout the firehouse from  Mr. Loops.