The Artistic Attic
The Artistic Attic contains sewing, art & crafting areas, tables for personal studio rental, affordable project storage space, and the Kids Tinker Town with tools and kid-sized work tables and chairs, games, art materials, and a rehearsal space and theater scripts, in an upstairs space away from the power tools on the main floor.
IN the ARTISTIC ATTIC
- Five sewing machines and a serger are upstairs, and two sewing machines are downstairs in the meeting room.
- LOTS of cloth and sewing accessories free to use.
- Sturdy hard topped tables for craft work.
- A 5 foot by 10 foot clean smooth topped table for cutting cloth or quilting.
- Two kid-sized workbenches plus other short tables and chairs for kids, plus tools.
- Acrylic paints and art paint brushes.
- The Crows Nest comfy corner overlook for relaxing and reading.
- Very affordable cubbies, lockable lockers and big metal drawers to store your long term projects as you work on them. See prices and sign up for storage at Forms and Documents
PLAYING WITH PLAYS!
Saturdays, 2:30 to 4pm, beginning in May, FREE!
EXCEPT NOT Saturday, May 10! INSTEAD on Mother’s Day, Sunday May 11.
– Playing With Plays is a chance to get familiar with theatrical methods while having fun with friends and soon to be friends.
Every session, when players arrive, Director Jeannette Jaquish will look at who is there and pick a scene from her many scripts and assign roles. Then we will read it aloud (run the lines) discuss the character’s personalities and what is going on in their heads and how each character might move and express his/herself. We will decide how the characters move during the scene and the cues for their entrances and exits.
We will take breaks to visit the nearby performance space, learn skills with wood tools or sewing, or practice a physical theatrical skill, like a dance step or pratfall, then resume working with the script, trying to memorize a bit of the play. End of the play session at 3:50pm, we will perform it for anyone we can drag in to watch.
Parents may leave minors after signing a guardian release waiver. Family members not participating may sit at tables or on a mat nearby to rest or chat or look at their phones.
If you sign up for a TekVenture membership, family members not participating in PWP may go make things at TekVenture in the clay shop, or welding or wood shop or any of the many other Worx areas.
Non-members of TekVenture cannot wander outside the Playing with Plays space without a TekVenture supervisor. [Photo: “Don’t Look in the Lake”]
Sign up information is at www.tekventure.org/join .
LOCATION: The Artistic Attic upstairs at TekVenture Makerspace.
TekVenture Makerspace is in the Fort Wayne Enterprise Center
1830 Wayne Trace, thru parking lot Door 8, Fort Wayne, 46803
DATES:
Every Saturday in May, except, May 11, Mothers Day instead of May 10.
2:30pm to 4pm
FREE, donations accepted.
QUESTIONS?: Contact Jeannette Jaquish, 260 750-9013.
See Jeannette’s scripts at www.theaterfunscripts.com, https://www.facebook.com/ecstaticTheatricsFW
Artistic Attic Area Manager
Jeannette Jaquish
260-750-9013
jeannettejaquish@yahoo.com
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Text or call Jeannette Jaquish at 260 750-9013, or jeannettejaquish@yahoo.com.
Jeannette will meet with you and see what skills you have and what skills you need to learn. She will guide you to rent affordable storage if needed, and show you where tools and paint and things are.
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Contact me first: Jeannette at 260 750-9013 to tell me what you want to do and what skills you already have. I will meet with you.
Always clean up after yourself. Don’t leave projects out on tables. Rent a very affordable drawer, locker or cubby in the Attic, if you need to leave your project over days.
Supervise children. There are sharp scissors and pins, hammers and staplers to get hurt with, and it is not impossible for a child to climb the rail or stand on a chair to look over the rail and fall to the next floor.
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The Artistic Attic has LOTS of beautiful fabrics, free for you to use, and some costume and purse patterns. We have interesting wood scraps to build upon also and some cardstock for paintings, and hardware for metal creations. All free.
