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Upcycle Art Days – Free Family Summer Art Workshops in Old Town Goleta
August 8, 2019 @ 9:30 am PDT
Upcycle Art Days – Free Family Summer Art Workshops in Old Town Goleta
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Location: Goleta Valley Community Center – 5679 Hollister Avenue – Goleta, CA 93117
Goleta Valley Community Center (GVCC) has partnered with the Squire Foundation and the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission to conduct 3 free, half-day family art workshops that they are calling Upcycle Art Days. Major funding is being provided by Farmers and Merchants Trust Company. The project is part of GVCC’s larger vision to increase art and cultural opportunities within the Old Town community.
The workshops will be held outdoors at the Goleta Community Center on the 2nd Thursday of each month—June 13, July 11, and August 8—from 9:30 am until Noon. Bring an empty egg carton, cereal box or can and make it into art! Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Participants can stay after the workshop to enjoy the SBUSD Mobile Café’s free lunches that are available for ages 18 and under. For anyone over 18, lunches can be purchased for $4.00 each.
Anyone wishing to make a donation to help cover program expenses such as glue guns, glue sticks, tape, scissors, etc., can do so on GVCC’s website www.thegvcc.org.
About Goleta Valley Community Center
Goleta Valley Community Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation that operates the Community Center in the heart of Old Town Goleta. For nearly 40 years the GVCC has served the Goleta community by providing low-cost rental space for nonprofit organizations, commercial groups and individuals to conduct classes, lectures, events, business meetings, provide community services or resources, and to serve the seniors of the Goleta community through quality recreational, social and educational programs. Locals consider the Community Center their venue of choice to celebrate their most important family and social events such as weddings, birthdays, quinceañeras, graduations and baptisms. www.thegvcc.org
About The Squire Foundation
“The Squire Foundation is a non-profit empowerment foundation, dedicated to civic and educational programs for artists, curators and all manner of creative people. Squire supports emerging and experimental art programming in an effort to nurture an environment of creative empowerment in the world.” – The Squire Foundation
For more information about the Artist in Residence Program, visit https://www.thesquirefoundation.org/about-artist-in-residence/
About the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission
Formed in 1977, the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission is a 15-member body appointed by the County Board of Supervisors. The Arts Commission has several important functions, including: making recommendations for the Percent for the Arts program, which establishes public art throughout the county; serving on grant panels for the County Arts Enrichment awards and helping to generate cultural arts policy for county constituents. http://www.sbac.ca.gov