Art City Curbside is open!
Monday to Friday, 1 pm until 5 pm at Art City, 616 Broadway.
Do you Need Art Supplies? Or creative ideas?
Walk up and choose from our menu of take-out art workshops.
Super safe, the best way to spend time while you chill at home. Free of charge!
1. Drawing Game Fun Pack:
Instructions and materials for solo and group drawing games.
2. Texture Treasure Hunt
Instructions and supplies for creating drawings and collages using interesting textures to make rubbings.
3. Peaceful Watercolour Painting:
Easy steps for a beautiful, relaxing painting experience. Includes watercolour paint samples, watercolour paper, drawing tools and brushes.
4. Emergency Comic Book Super Kit:
Design a character, plan a story, and save the day by making a comic.
5. Grab Bag Mystery Challenge:
??? Choose this kit if you love mystery ???
6. Everything's Alive:
Transform everything in your home using paper google eyes and found facial features. An Art City favorite!
7. Stop Motion Claymation:
Make a plasticine character and a paper set and direct a short movie, one photo at a time
8. Dream Home Design:
Build a model of your dream home using mixed media, paper and tape.
9. Beautiful Embroidery:
Use coloured thread to stitch a design onto fabric
10. BFF: Build a Furry Friend:
Sew a new creature by mixing and matching parts of other stuffed toys. An Art City classic!
11. Jewelry Jam:
Design a jazzy necklace, bracelet, or earrings. Invent your own body adornment!
12. Beading:
Create a beaded patch, pendant, or medallion. Kit includes instructions, beading needle, beading thread, felt and beading foundation, variety of coloured glass seed beads.
13. Sketchbook Journal:
Fill a sketchbook with your ideas! Kit includes a sketchbook, drawing and colouring supplies and creative ideas.
14. Cut & Paste Collage:
Mix up, cut up and paste pictures together using scissors and glue!
15. Something new coming
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16. Acrylic Painting on Canvas:
Includes instructions for how to use acrylic paints, canvas board, brushes and paint!
17. Pom-Pom Pal:
Make a fluffy little friend out of yarn.
18. Air Dry Clay Plant Pot Project:
Model a mini ceramic home for a plant. Kit includes air dry clay, earth and flower seeds!
19. Postal Art:
Kit includes instructions, collage and drawing materials, postage and an envelope. Send a letter to a friend with art and fun surprises!
20. Mini Tiny Weaving:
Kit includes instructions and supplies to make a loom. Weave a small creation!
CLICK HERE for the Special Digital Art Menu
FREE, COOL, WEB-BASED ART.
Do you have access to a computer? A laptop? A tablet? A phone?
Whatever device you have, this list will have something for you :)
Some of the Apps work on Mobile + Tablets, Some do not. Try them out!
What is Art City?
Art City is a not-for-profit community art studio dedicated to providing people of all ages with innovative and professional art programming, free of charge. Art City’s primary goal is to provide space and tools for anyone who wishes to express themselves creatively.
Art City is located on Treaty 1 territory and the land on which we gather is the traditional territory of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.
History
More than two decades ago, Wanda Koop, an internationally renowned artist, saw a need for accessible arts programming in Winnipeg’s West Broadway neighbourhood. In 1998, she founded Art City, one of the first organizations of its kind in Canada. The idea: that community art programming should be accessible to all.
In 2006, Wanda Koop was made a Member of the Order of Canada in honour of her extraordinary contribution to Canadian art, and her dedication to community development through the arts.
Why
We are not necessarily making artists, we are giving people the opportunity to think creatively, and my feeling is that if you can think creatively, you can survive almost anything – Wanda Koop, Founder
Vision
To Dream, To Imagine, To Create. A Space For Art In Every Life.
Mission
Art City is a community art centre that offers high quality, free-of-charge art programming to those who need or wish to express themselves creatively.
Our mission is to create a positive and expanding cultural impact on the unique needs of the community by:
- Fostering self-expression in participants, encouraging a sense of ownership, self-respect, and pride in their work and community.
- Being a part of the neighbourhood, a place that is safe, comfortable, and supportive.
- Being accessible by offering free-of-charge, quality programming with local, national, and international professional artists.
- Being sustainable and available to the community day after day, year after year.
- Being a model for future community art centres.