Hands-On Houston Family Festival: Focus on Fiber

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is pleased to host the seventh annual HANDS-ON HOUSTON FAMILY FESTIVAL, a free community event. Families and visitors of all ages are invited to this fun day of indoor/outdoor activities.

This year, HCCC celebrates fiber with hands-on activities, demonstrations by local artists, and more!

• Learn a variety of techniques for working with fiber
• Create wet-felted bracelets and sew your own wall hanging
• Join Workshop Houston’s Style Shop, a nonprofit youth program, to screenprint on fabric
• See live demonstrations, including natural dying with current resident artists Liz Robb and Molly Koehn, The Creeping Vine Project by former resident Rebecca Braziel, and the Houston Area Machine Knitters
• View the fall exhibitions in our galleries: Storyline: The Contemporary Quilt, For Hire: Contemporary Sign Painting in America, and The Sound of Things
• Shop for one-of-a-kind gifts and home décor in the Asher Gallery
• Enjoy food and refreshments on site from local food truck, El Topo

SOCIAL MEDIA: Follow HCCC on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @CraftHouston. To follow the event online and share your images, please use #HandsOnHouston..

PARKING: The HCCC parking lot will be blocked off for activities and food trucks, but street parking is available nearby.