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Have you ever wondered how to cut and polish a stone for jewelry? Or have you wondered how to sculpt a bust from clay? Maybe you want to see how to use wire to make jewelry. Come and learn about quilting and see a unique collection of eclectic quilts. Here Spoken Word and jazz by Chris Bowman. Youth, come and photograph the historic Wright-Dunbar Historic District. Well, this is your chance to experience art and culture in various forms.
Riverbend Art Center’s Open House will be for four days, from Monday, September 8 to Thursday, September 11, between the hours of 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. Riverbend Art Center is located at 1301 East Siebenthaler Avenue in the Cultural Arts Complex at DeWeese Park.
The Dayton Cultural and RTA Transit Center’s Open House, will be for five days, beginning at 6:00 p.m. each day, Monday, September 8 until Friday, September 12. The Dayton Cultural and RTA Transit Center is located at 40 South Edwin C. Moses Boulevard.
Riverbend instructors will be on hand to show you their techniques and to talk about their classes. You can also sign up for fall classes.
Riverbend Art Center offers classes in areas including pen and ink drawing, colored pencil drawing, charcoal & pencil Drawing, Right Brain Drawing, Drawing in Three Dimensions, lost wax casting, metal construction, stone setting, wire wrapping, jewelry making with metal clay, faceting, lapidary, glass fusing, stained glass, lampwork bead making, acrylic painting, oil painting, pottery, head/bust sculpting, watercolor, weaving and woodcarving.
There are various art and cultural experience for the entire family at the Cultural and RTA Transit Center taking place each day. Adults and teens will learn not only the history of quilting but see a unique collection of eclectic quilts and participate in the creation of a quilt as well. Come see the film “Walking The Nickle” by film artist Jud Yalkt and take a visual tour of Dayton’s West-Side during the 1950’s and 1960”s,
Youth can take a guided tour through the Wright-Dunbar Historic District, hear stories from the past and take photographs that will be exhibited in a collage at the Dayton Cultural and RTA Transit Center at a later date.
The week long of activities at the Cultural Center will close with Urban Nights on Friday, September 12 with Spoken Word by teenagers and young adult and jazz by Chris Bowman & Friends.
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