CREATE! A Community Art Making Event

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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