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Come out and join us on Monday, April 25th, for Make Art Monday from 7-9pm at the North Wales Arts & Cultural Center, located at 125 N. Main Street in North Wales. In honor of Earth Day we will be making a Huichol Yarn Art inspired project. Bring a plastic or glass bottle or jar to up-cycle into a  functional work of art. Admission costs $5.00. Parking is available in the back of the building off of Second Street. We look forward to seeing you all!

The North Penn Arts Alliance is currently looking for face-painting volunteers for a summer kick off event on June 4th from 5-7:30 pm. please call us at 215-393-9110 or email us at info@northpennarts.org if you are interested and able to help.

Join us on April 6 at 7:30pm over at the North Wales Arts & Cultural Center, located at 125 North Main Street in North Wales, for a presentation featuring local artist Michael Adams. Over the past two years he has painted a visual narrative of life and nature he has experienced while hiking the trails along Skippack Creek, two miles from his home in Trooper. His detailed watercolors depict the beautiful and surprising landscape, flora and fauna of Evansburg State Park. Michael also photographed and videotaped each painting from start to finish and will talk about that process and his painting techniques.

Come out and join us on Monday, March 21st, for Make Art Monday from 7-9pm at the North Wales Arts & Cultural Center, located at 125 N. Main Street in North Wales. This month’s project is foam printmaking. Admission costs $5.00. Parking is available in the back of the building off of Second Street. We look forward to seeing you all!

Are you looking for a fun evening activity this spring? Then try out these art classes!

Join us on Tuesday nights at 7-9 p.m. on March 15 through April 19th for The Art of Drawing. This is a basic drawing class where you will learn how to use representational techniques when drawing objects. The class will start with learning the Art of Drawing the Still-life and finishing with learning how to use artistic anatomy to draw the human form & figure in costume. The cost of the class is $105. The fee includes supplies for the 1st class

Or maybe The Art of Figure Drawing: Workshop is more your speed. In which case, join us on Tuesday nights at 7-9 p.m. on May 10th and 17th. For $48 you can learn the principles of drawing drapery and the proportions of drawing the human form, to show what lies beneath the clothing. Bring your favorite drawing medium.

To register, fill out the class registration form on our website and mail it to our Po Box along with your check. The address for our PO box is P.O. Box 947, Lansdale, PA 19446. You can also simply bring your payment to the first class, but if you do that then you must let us know by phone or email that you will be taking the class so we know to expect you and reserve your spot in the class.

Join us on Wednesday, March 2nd, for a presentation featuring NPAA Co-founder, and former Board Member, Joan Radcliffe Rosiak, where she will be discussing her work to preserve her grandmother’s musical legacy. Follow Joan’s journey from removing mold from fragile 100-year-old paper, to sending the compositions for transcription. 

Come join in the adventure at 7:30 pm over at the North Wales Arts & Cultural Center located at 125 N. Main Street in North Wales! We might even listen to a few compositions that have lain silent for decades.

Joan’s paternal grandmother, composer Letitia Radcliffe Harris, in the 1930s:

Do you have an artist, art form, or cultural event that you are longing to tell people about? Well we want to hear about it! The North Penn Arts Alliance is currently looking for a guest speaker for our meeting on March 2nd at 7:30pm. If you are interested in being the guest speaker for this upcoming meeting, or at any future meetings, please email us at info@northpennarts.org. 

Come out and join us on Monday, February 21st, for Make Art Monday from  7-9 p.m. at the North Wales Arts & Cultural Center, located at 125 N. Main Street in North Wales. Parking is available in the back of the building off of Second Street.

To kick off the celebration of Mardi Gras we will be creating treasure boxes. Admission costs $5.00. We look forward to seeing you all! 

Join us February 2nd at 7:30pm to immerse yourself in Mercer. We will be learning about the history of our local tile legacy preserved by Henry Mercer. 

Learn about his methods, inspiration, and materials. Julianna will be bringing in local natural clay to do a historic tile demonstration. 

Julianna is the Director of Education and Events at the TileWorks of Bucks County. She has been involved in ceramics for over 20 years from working at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Studying and working in industrial ceramics and education in Italy and China, to production at The Moravian Pottery and Tile Works. 

She is looking forward to sharing her passion of ceramics with the North Penn Arts Alliance.

Hello,

Unfortunately, due to the recent rise in Covid-19 cases, the Winter Blues Art & Craft Festival is postponed until further notice. We are aiming to reschedule for this upcoming Summer, covid permitting. Keep an eye out for updates on our facebook page and website.

If you are still interested in being a volunteer or vendor for future bazaars and shows, feel free to reach out and let us know.

Sincerely,

The North Penn Arts Alliance

Hello, 

The North Penn Arts Alliance is currently looking for volunteers and vendorsfor our upcoming Winter Blues Art and Craft Festival at the North Wales Arts & Cultural Center on Feb 12th from 10-4 p.m. 

The cost of registration is $35. You must confirm your intent to be a vendor by contacting us either through email or phone 215-393-9110. You can text or call this number. 

Click here to access our registration form

Registration form with check should be postmarked by January 24th.

If being a vendor for this event is not feasible, then please be a volunteer for whatever time you may have for that day. We are looking for greeters to collect an admission fee, assist with vendors, and helping with children’s crafts stations.   
Please email us at:      Info@northpennarts.org.

Finally, the NPAA art show is scheduled for April 22- May 1st at the North Wales Arts & Cultural Center on Main Street.  We will be looking for volunteers who would like to be part of the show committee. 
Please email us at:     Info@northpennarts.org.

Sincerely,

The North Penn Arts Alliance