Upcoming Events

Recommended Audience: 5th-8th Graders | Registration Required

Ages 9-14 | Registration encouraged

If you think about it, ghosts make perfect pets. They take up no room, need no food, you don’t have to clean up after them, and they are always around!

Would you like an easy access point for making a comic? Do you want to incorporate simple imagery for storytelling? Are you interested in inventing characters?

If you think about it, ghosts make perfect pets. They take up no room, need no food, you don’t have to clean up after them, and they are always around!

Grades 6-12 | Registration required

Create a summer memory and one-of-a-kind work of art using a collection of beach-inspired treasures. Bring your own favorite natural finds to personalize your frame. 

Recommended for ages 3-14 | Drop In

Grades 6-12 | Registration required

Learn how to make your own pins! We’ll draw a design on shrink plastic, use heat to shrink it down, then add UV Resin to finish it off.

Grades 6-12 | Registration required

Use translucent clays and other media mixed to create an otherworldly galaxy scene of your own design. Then, add a domed pendant to turn it into jewelry. 

Do you like to sew? Join people who enjoy quilting and sewing at a casual “drop in” program anytime from 6:00 to 8:30pm in the Collaboratory the first Tuesday evening of each month. Bring your unfinished projects, either hand sewing or machine.

Do you ever get lonely while sitting at your desk? Invite a traveler from a different realm into your home!

Grades 6-12 | Registration required

Do you ever get lonely while sitting at your desk? Invite a traveler from a different realm into your home!

Ages 9-14 | Registration Required

Learn how to needle felt by hand and create a small, decorative Loch Ness Monster. Needle felting uses a barbed needle to mat fibers together, typically in wool.

Grades 6-12 | Registration required

Learn how to make chocolate pudding from scratch to upgrade this classic dessert! We'll add the pudding to layers of oreos and top with gummy worms or other eerie toppings.

Learn how to needle felt by hand and create a small, decorative Loch Ness Monster. Needle felting uses a barbed needle to mat fibers together, typically in wool.

Grades 6-12 | Registration required

Use polymer clay in a teacup to sculpt a Kraken devouring a ship. Unique cups will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own standard size teacup or demitasse cup (although it will no longer be suitable for drinking).