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Join us on Monday, July 6th from 6:30-8:30 pm over at Eclipse Center For Creative Community, located at 30 Vine Street in Lansdale for a free guest speaker event featuring local artist, and long time North Penn Arts Alliance Member, Marcia Field. Her presentation will showcase her work as a textiles artist who enjoys painting with fabric through her quilting practice. All are welcome, so feel free to bring friends!

If you are interested in being the guest speaker at any future meetings, please email us at info@northpennarts.org, or call or text 215-393-9110

Join us on Monday, June 15^th from 6:30-8:30pm over at Eclipse Center for Creative Community located at 30 Vine Street in Lansdale, for Make Art Monday. For this month’s project, to celebrate the upcoming Summer Solstice, we will use a variety of media to create “Sun” themed artworks. The cost of admission is $10. All ages and skill levels are welcome, so feel free to bring friends. We hope to see you all there!

Join us on June 8th from 6:30-8:30 pm over at Eclipse Center For Creative Community, located at 30 Vine Street in Lansdale for a free guest speaker event featuring local artist, and new North Penn Arts Alliance Member, Stephanie Keer. Her presentation will showcase her work as a Mixed Media Artist, and will discuss her experimentation with mixing textiles and quilting into her process. All are welcome, so feel free to bring friends!

Here is some of Stephanie Keer’s work:

Join us on Monday, May 11th from 6:30-8:30 pm over at Eclipse Center for Creative Community located at 30 Vine Street in Lansdale for our Members Meeting and Make Art Monday. For this month’s project we will be making eggshell mosaics, so save your eggshells! This art form dates back to the Italian Renaissance and earlier. In preparation for the project, you will need to wash, dry, and remove the membrane from your eggshells. The eggshells can be any color. You can color before (as in Easter eggs) or paint and stain them after with watercolor or alcohol inks. Helpful items to bring are tweezers, an X-Acto knife, and skewers to help place pieces. We will provide instruction, painted backing, and glue. The cost of admission is $10, and all skill levels welcome. Additionally, we will have a brief Members Meeting during the evening.

Come out and join us on Monday, April 20th, for Make Art Monday from 6:30-8:30pm over at Eclipse Center for Creative Community, located at 30 Vine Street in Lansdale. For this month’s project, In honor of Earth Day we will be up-cycling objects with decoupage. Bring any items you’d like to up-cycle into a work of art. We will have some cans and bottles available on a first come first serve basis. Admission costs $10.00. All skill levels are welcome so feel free to bring friends and family. We look forward to seeing you all!

Here are some examples:

Join us on Monday, April 6th, from 6:30-8:30 pm over at Eclipse Center For Creative Community, located at 30 Vine Street in Lansdale for our monthly members meeting. For this month’s meeting we will be discussing Neurographic Art, which is a therapeutic, mindfulness- based art technique designed to calm the brain. There will be a hands on project, so please bring a black sharpie or permanent marker, we will have the other supplies needed.

Join us on Monday, March 16, 2026 from 6:30-8:30 pm over at Eclipse Center for Creative Community located at 30 Vine St in Lansdale for Make Art Monday. For this month’s project, in honor of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, we will be taking inspiration from Alma Woodsey Thomas’ colorful paintings, and creating our own colorful artworks with paint on paper. The cost of admission is $10. All skill levels are welcome, so feel free to bring friends. We hope to see you there!

Here is some background information on Alma Woodsey Thomas: Alma Thomas (1898-1978) was an African-American artist & teacher. She is best known for her paintings utilizing energetic brushwork, mosaic like patterned compositions, and commitment to color. In 1972, she was the first African-American woman artist to have a solo exhibit at the Whitney Museum of Art, and to have one of her artworks selected for the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Join us on March 9th from 6:30-8:30 pm over at Eclipse Center For Creative Community, located at 30 Vine Street in Lansdale for our Monthly Members Meeting. For this month’s meeting, in honor of Women’s History Month, we will be having a discussion about women in art. Feel free to bring friends and family. We hope to see you there!

Due to the heavy snow forecast, Make Art Monday on February 23rd has been canceled. Stay safe!

Join us on Monday, February 23, 2026 from 6:30-8:30 pm over at Eclipse Center for Creative Community located at 30 Vine St in Lansdale for Make Art Monday. For this month’s project, in honor of Black History Month we will be taking inspiration from Alma Woodsey Thomas’ colorful paintings, and creating our own colorful artworks with paint on paper. The cost of admission is $10. All skill levels are welcome, so feel free to bring friends. We hope to see you there!

Here is some background information on Alma Woodsey Thomas: Alma Thomas (1898-1978) was an African-American artist & teacher. She is best known for her paintings utilizing energetic brushwork, mosaic like patterned compositions, and commitment to color. In 1972, she was the first African-American woman artist to have a solo exhibit at the Whitney Museum of Art, and to have one of her artworks selected for the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.