First Night workshops are a fun way to let your creative juices flow. Age is no barrier to participating—we have workshops for children and adults! What better time is there to work on a craft project with your children, learn how to play the ukulele, or make a puppet? Come on out and join the fun—you will be surprised at how creative you are!
A First Night State College button is required for all workshops.
11:00 am – 9:00 pm; 2000 Degrees, 202 West College Avenue
Decorate a bisque mug that you’ll treasure long after your New Year’s resolutions are forgotten. 2000 Degrees provides almost everything you need to immortalize your new year’s resolution in ceramics. You provide the missing piece–the creativity!
After you add the creativity, the staff will fire your work and in a couple of days you’ll have a beautiful hand-painted reminder to fill with your morning beverage of choice.
In addition to a First Night button, this workshop costs $7 per person. The activity is not appropriate for unsupervised and small children. The last seating is at 8:00 pm.
5:30 pm; Westminster Hall, State College Presbyterian Church
Build a small puppet with a big personality! Join Adam Swartz Puppets in using household objects, recycled items and simple craft materials to create a unique hand or stick puppet. Then learn a few tricks of the puppeteer trade to bring your new character to life.
A First Night Button is required for this workshop.
While we welcome folks of all ages at our children’s art and craft workshops, participants should be under 12 years old. Crafts are to be completed on site so that participants can take inspiration and share results with each other.
Pick-a-Project with Jill Parrilla
3:00 pm; Social Hall, State College Presbyterian Church
Jill Parrilla joins our First Night crew and brings a wealth of experience as an elementary art teacher at Northern Bedford! Kids are invited to try their hands at a couple of different craft projects.
A First Night Button is required for this workshop.
4:00 pm; Martin Room, State College Presbyterian Church
The Allegheny Ukulele Kollective welcomes players of all abilities and of all ages! New to the ukulele? Never picked one up but want to try? Come on down and join us! We’re always sure to bring extra ukes to our jams for just such an occasion.
A First Night Button is required for this workshop.
The group will also perform at 2:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.
Drop in between 2:45 and 3:45pm to add your mark to our collaborative community artwork. We’ll set up an expansive scroll of paper across our gallery where visitors can draw, doodle, and express themselves using our variety of art materials. Whether you want to sketch a quick pattern, draw your favorite animal, design a winter scene, or add to someone else’s creation – there’s room for everyone’s creativity.
All ages welcome, materials provided. Stay for a minute or an hour and watch our collective drawing grow throughout the afternoon!
While you are at the Woskob Family Gallery you can also enjoy:
Hands-on History: A Community Experiment to Re-create a Lost Inca Rope is a participatory effort to re-create the largest textile of the premodern world. Marini synthesizes art-making and historical research to reconstruct a massive rope that, while no longer extant, was key to the understanding of Inca artistic representation. Through this project, the artist invites participants to enter the realm of Inca creativity, accessing knowledge otherwise inaccessible through traditional art historical research methods.
The exhibition features a monumental polychromatic rope winding around the gallery walls, its surface illuminated by track lighting that refracts throughout the interior. The experiment recovers a mainstay of Inca visual culture to reconceptualize academic understanding of the Inca past and reimagine the practice of art history.
A First Night button gets you into all performances and some activities – for just $15!
