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September 14th 12-4pm
CREATE! A Community Art Making Event
Join us in this unique experience where the community is invited to:
- Collaborate on & Create Art for the Park!
- Enjoy & Participate in Art Demonstrations!
- Create a variety of art crafts to take home!
This year's theme - ANIMALS! This event and will be free for all.
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CREATE! Art for the PARK - Everyone can participate!
Climbing Caterpillar
Climbing Caterpillar
Climbing Caterpillar
Activity: Create a caterpillar using recycled tires. Eight tires will be installed in the Park to create the interactive structure. All are invited to join in and paint the tires for a fun and colorful new piece for the Imagination Space.
About the Artist: Dina Zaman is a Bangladeshi-American visual artist and storyteller whose work spans across continents, cultures, and communities. Having created and exhibited art in both Bangladesh and the United States—as well as in numerous other countries—her diverse experiences have shaped a broad, inclusive practice. Dina’s figurative works center on themes of women’s lives, resilience, and empowerment, often reflecting the stories of refugees, immigrants, women, and children. Through her art, she explores identity, migration, and transformation. Over the years, her work has been recognized with multiple awards and featured in exhibitions across various U.S. states and international venues.
Rainbow Bridge 🌈
Climbing Caterpillar
Climbing Caterpillar
Activity: Come to the SW corner of Boardman Arts Park on CREATE! Day to celebrate and memorialize your former pets. Artist, Kris Kolb will be assisting both children and adults in making decorative tags that are meant to be hung on the new Rainbow Bridge, designed to honor our pets. This quiet corner of the park will feature a pollinator garden and a bench near the bridge, for people to come and reflect, remember, and heal.
Bonus Activities: 📖 We will be celebrating our “furever friends” with a story every half hour starting at 12:15. I’ll Be Your Friend Forever by Amulya Veldanada Vadali and Julia Moroko (illustrator) will be shared by librarian, Deb Logan.
🖌️ Local fine art painter, Carolyn Heffelfinger, will be doing an oil painting demo featuring a dog from 1:30-2:30 and animal sidewalk chalk drawings in the style of David Zinn from 2:30-3:45.
What’s the Rainbow Bridge? According to the poems and stories, it’s the meadow where our pets go to wait on us when they die. There’s a beautiful meadow where they can run and play, their health restored, and wait on their humans. When they are reunited, humans and pets cross over the Rainbow Bridge together to Paradise. And let’s face it; it wouldn’t be Paradise without our beloved pets.
About the Artist: Being born in the Glass Capital of the World (Toledo, Ohio) may have had something to do with Kris Hyland Kolb’s love of glass. She has made art with blown glass, leaded glass, slumped glass, and etched glass and has been collecting beach glass for most of her life. After retiring from 35 years of teaching art for the Marion City Schools, where she taught jewelry, photography, and graphic design at Marion Harding High School, she signed up for a jewelry course at Ohio Wesleyan University with professor Cynthia Cetlin. It was here where she was encouraged to start creating something with her sea glass collection. Now, several years later, she sells her jewelry from New England to Key West, from the US Virgin Islands to Canada, from the Midwest to the West Coast. Sea glass is nature’s way of recycling our trash into beautifully colored and textured gems, so she thinks of herself as a recycling artist.
Button Panda
“Wings of Wonder” A Community Butterfly Mural
“Wings of Wonder” A Community Butterfly Mural
Activity: Put buttons on our new Panda structure to make a new beautiful art piece for the Park! Constructed out of plywood and painted on both sides, the entire surface of the Panda will then be covered in various buttons which will then be sealed in with an epoxy substance.
About the Artist: Patricia Quinn
“Wings of Wonder” A Community Butterfly Mural
“Wings of Wonder” A Community Butterfly Mural
“Wings of Wonder” A Community Butterfly Mural
Activity: Step into a world of color, imagination, and transformation! Using humble Wedi board and a whole lot of creativity, we’re building something magical! Giant butterfly wings that will come to life through the hands of our youngest artists.
Each child will have the joy of painting a unique piece of the wings, splashing it with their own colors, patterns, and personality. When all the pieces are joined together, they’ll form a magnificent mural. A place where anyone can stand and become the butterfly.
Come paint, play, and watch as our community’s creativity takes flight. 🦋
About the Artist: Kelli Wildman is an enthusiastic artist with a deep passion for all forms of art, photography, and vibrant colors. A dedicated mom and grandmother, Kelli enjoys a fulfilling family life with her kids, grandkids, husband, two dogs, and three cats. Creating art is not just a hobby but a way of life for Kelli, who finds joy and inspiration in every artistic endeavor. Additionally, Kelli loves plants, cooking, and flowers, adding to the beauty and creativity of her daily life.
Art Demonstrations - Join IN & Learn about other Art Forms!
Theatre Performance
Theatre Performance
Theatre Performance
**Show Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm**
What to Expect: Join Curtain Players for a delightful retelling of The Bremen Town Musicians, a heartwarming tale of friendship, courage, and the power of second chances. Adapted by William Goldsmith from the beloved Grimm Brothers' story, this production promises fun for audiences of all ages.
About Curtain Players:
Curtain Players is proud to bring together individuals passionate about promoting the educational, cultural, and entertainment value of live theatre. Through participation in theatre productions and related activities, we strive to build a strong, vibrant arts community.
For more than 60 years, Curtain Players has been recognized for excellence in community theatre. Our productions have earned honors from Central Ohio's Theatre Roundtable, the Ohio Community Theatre Association, and the American Association of Community Theatre—for outstanding direction, acting, and technical achievements.
To learn more about our 63rd season and upcoming performances, visit curtainplayers.org.
Improv Comedy
Theatre Performance
Theatre Performance
**Show Time: 1:30 - 2:30pm**
What to Expect: Interactive Improv Comedy for Kids!
About the Artist: Meet The Improv Group!
Jesse, Mark, Rob, and Larry have been making people laugh across Ohio for over 20 years—with performances and workshops in businesses, colleges, schools, churches, and everywhere in between. Our shows are packed with silly, high-energy fun and totally made up on the spot! We love getting kids involved in the action, so get ready to shout out ideas, jump into games, and laugh along with us. Let’s make some improv magic together!
Pottery Throwing
Theatre Performance
Pottery Throwing
What to Expect: Louise will be demonstrating her craft on the pottery wheel with a handful of opportunities for visitors to give the wheel a try!
About the Artist: Louise H. Chell has been creating pottery for 20 years. She creates Nature Inspired Functional Pottery through her business Yellow Creek Pottery.
Wood Carving
Creative Writing - Author
Pottery Throwing
What to Expect: There are many variations in methods and materials related to carving/sculpture with wood as the primary medium. The carvers who meet at Source Point will present three variations of woodcarving and 1 exhibit of stonecarving. The woodcarving demonstrations will involve “mallet and chisel” woodcarving/sculpture of a Native American human bust, examples of a variety of intarsia pieces, Relief carvings, and examples of fun caricature carvings in wood.
About the Artists: Chuck Laurence has always been interested in woodworking and carving. He and his youngest son would watch Norm Abram’s New Yankee Workshop and Roy Underhill’s Woodright Shop. One day his son asked him to build a workbench that Norm had built, and the rest is history. That was over 30 years ago, and his son still uses the workbench. Since then, he has built numerous pieces of furniture and household items. For many years he was a Boy Scout leader and attended Summer Camp with the boys. In many instances, the boys working on the Woodcarving merit badge would borrow his Exacto knives and we would discuss how to carve their project. Since there is no more room in his home for furniture, his woodworking interests have moved towards Intarsia (creating pictures by inlaying different colored woods), scroll sawing, and wood carving.
Keith Radick studied fine arts at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio prior to spending a career in the environmental field. Upon retirement, he returned to his artistic roots finally selecting sculpture as his discipline and wood as his favored medium. His current studies have taken him all over the eastern United States and Mexico, working with some of the best known wood artists in the world.
Antoinette Miller has ventured into several different artistic mediums such as
photography, ceramics, sewing, drawing, painting in acrylic, stained glass and watercolors.
Woodcarving is a new artistic venture and love for her. She first saw three carved Santa’s hanging
on a Christmas Tree at SourcePoint in Delaware. Lo and behold a small card was attached and
it was an invitation to join a class. Well, she was hooked! Carving has introduced her to many wonderful people, and she truly enjoys classes working side-by-side with them to learn this art.
Other interests are sailing, walking, handbells, singing (Delaware Chorus), acting (Arena Fair),
bicycling, swimming … "I am having a 'full' life!"
Local Powell-based artisan, Darice Allard, has been honing her woodcarving skills since 2015 when her aging parents relocated to Powell and Darice became part of her father’s woodcarving community. She was fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from her father – the master himself – and from his accomplished circle of friends at many events when their diverse talents and works of art were featured. Darice’s family, her accomplished nursing career and caring for her parents left little time for her to pursue her newly found passion, but since retiring Darice has happily discovered her creative talents in woodcarving and other mediums that reflect her interests and distinctive artist flair. Darice joyfully shares her art with you in hopes that it can bring you as much pleasure as she experienced while creating it.
Hula Dance
Creative Writing - Author
Creative Writing - Author
**Show Time: 12:30 - 1:30pm**
What to Expect: Enjoy a demonstration of Tahitian and Hawaiian dancing from ancient to modern times. There will be opportunities to learn and join in on the fun to some of the favorite Polynesian music from movies like Moana.
About the Artist: Laura Wolery & Sara Mercer's troupe is Tropical Enchantment and they are an authentic Polynesian, Hawaiian, and Tahitian dance group. They use authentic costuming and music.
Creative Writing - Author
Creative Writing - Author
Creative Writing - Author
What to Expect: Tracy will be discussing, selling and signing her children's books.
About the Artist: Tracy Blom is an award-winning author of over thirty published books featured in bookstores, museums, zoos, airports, and major retailers across the United States.
She has ghostwritten for various organizations, creating everything from daily blogs to environmental comic books. Her work has received STEM accreditation, Teacher’s Pick Awards, Reader’s Favorite Awards, and appeared in magazines and blogs internationally and domestically.
She is part of The Authors on the Air Global Radio Network, an international digital media company featuring talk radio, podcasts, vodcasts, live streaming interviews, book reviews, and promotions available on social media and multiple websites, audio, and video platforms in 153 countries. Her show, Books, Kids & Creations, features people worldwide who inspire and uplift future generations with their work.
To read more about her work, visit her website www.theblomdotcom.com
Hands-On Art Crafts To Take HOme!
Painted Wooden Blocks
Geometric Animal Designs
Geometric Animal Designs
Activity: Brooke will have a station where participants can design their own patterns and details for Ohio fauna using paints made from acid mine drainage. Each participant will go home with their own painting of an endangered species of Ohio, along with resources on how to support these critters.
About the Artist: Brooke Ripley is an artist and environmentalist, who uses art to advocate for our land and the health of our communities. She is currently in the Masters of Science in Environmental Studies at Ohio University, where she previously received her MFA in Painting and Drawing and certificates in Arts Administration and Museum Studies. Her work is currently on display at the Ohio Museum Complex in Athens, OH.
Geometric Animal Designs
Geometric Animal Designs
Geometric Animal Designs
Activity: This unique project invites you to explore the playful possibilities of color and texture as you transform basic materials into fun pictures of animals.
By layering, cutting, and assembling pieces of mat board, you'll discover how simple shapes can come together to evoke the personality and spirit of your favorite creatures.
About the Artist: Benny Shoults - Artist, Curator with the Delaware County Historical Society, Owner of Frame Artistry – local picture framer, and resident of the Northwest Neighborhood.
Attended Columbus College of Art and Design after High School, life-long interest and practice of art making and creative thinking.
Animal Rocks
Geometric Animal Designs
Sea Shell Magnets
Activity: Participants will be able to paint a rock in the image of their favorite animal. Stones can be taken home or left at Boardman Park to part of our artistic environment
About the Artist: Mary Weiler Williams received her BS and MA from OSU. After retiring from a 30 year career of teaching art for Marion City Schools, Williams continued sharing her love of art by teaching at the Arts Castle, Sourcepoint, and OWU-Owjl. She has been named Central Ohio Art Teacher of the year and Delaware Arts Festival Artist of the Year. Her Art quilts have won awards at Delaware Artist Guild and Senior Showcase Art shows . You can find both Mary and her art at Gallery 22 here in Delaware.
Sea Shell Magnets
Animal Fun with the Humane Society!
Sea Shell Magnets
Activity: A fun project that allows that artist to turn seashells into one-of-a-kind magnets. Seashells, magnets, watercolors and craft supplies will be used to unique creatures that are only limited by the imagination of the person making them.
About the Artist: Carole Schuler is an art teacher that has recently retired after 32 years in public education. She has loved art and the creative process since she was a child and plan on continuing sharing that love with others for the rest of her life. As an artist, she enjoys learning about different medias and is willing to try new things. She paints, she works in fabric and fiber arts, stain glass and jewelry making. If it involves being creative, she will try it.
Buzzin' with the Bumblebees!
Animal Fun with the Humane Society!
Animal Fun with the Humane Society!
Activity: Learn about Ohio’s amazing native bees, including bumblebee, and their important role in pollination. Create a bumblebee to take home using a fun wet felting technique with wool roving and recycled book pages!
About the Artist: This booth is hosted by the North Central Ohio Pollinator Pathway, a local grassroots chapter of Pollinator Pathway. They collaborate with community members, non-profits, businesses and government agencies to create more pollinator habitat within our community and to share how we all can support pollinators. Please visit their pollinator habitat garden within Boardman Arts Park on the corner of Catherine St and William St to see what’s buzzing!
Animal Fun with the Humane Society!
Animal Fun with the Humane Society!
Animal Fun with the Humane Society!
Activity: Meet & Greet Adoptable pups! Make toilet paper roll cat toys and no-sew blankets for the Humane Society.
About the Artist: This booth is hosted by the Humane Society of Delaware County, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping animals and their owners.
Face Painting
Face Painting
Face Painting
Activity: Have your face be the canvas and get a fun Earth design of your choosing.
About the Artist: Lauren Clevenger, a South Carolina mom, but originally from Delaware Ohio, just doing something fun while supporting non profits! Mom of 2 and step-mom of 3. Love face painting and seeing lots of colorful faces and joy. Come visit me!
CREATE! EVENT Information
Food and Drink
Momentum Refresh Van
Momentum Refresh Van
Food and drink will be available for purchase at the event! Food and Drink trucks will include:
- Aunt Di's Kitchen
- Sunny Sips
- Ciao's Cafe
Momentum Refresh Van
Momentum Refresh Van
Momentum Refresh Van
💙 We are so excited to have Momentum Refresh at this event!
Momentum Refresh provides the nation’s first fully accessible, universally designed mobile restroom at events in Delaware County.
The Momentum Refresh van is equipped with a wheelchair lift, customizable grab bars, an overhead ceiling hoist, and a height-adjustable sink and adult changing table.
Learn more about this amazing non-profit by visiting: https://momentumrefresh.com
Volunteers Needed!
Volunteers Needed!
Volunteers Needed!
Things to Know!
Volunteers Needed!
Volunteers Needed!
- Admission is FREE to this event and open to all.
- There will be items for sale from some of our artists at the event!
- You can come at anytime during the event period (12-4pm) to capture and enjoy all the fun activities and demonstrations planned.
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Saturday, October 11th
Tour Times: 5pm, 6pm & 7pm
Ready to get a little spooked out?
Venture into some of the most haunted streets in Delaware's Northwest Neighborhood. On your tour hear actual ghost accounts from residents where the spirits reside.