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Want monthly Ames C.art News delivered to your inbox? Subscribe now! A Word From Ames C.art’s Newest Board Member, Lyndsay Nissen: I just joined the Ames C.art team in March.  I grew up in Ames and after high school I lived in Madison, Wisconsin and Santa Cruz, California.  Now I̵

Drink and Draw has been cancelled for the month of November because of the Holiday weekend. Please keep an eye on the newsletter, Facebook group, or here on the blog for updates about when the next session will be. Hopefully December 18th, the third Sunday of the month. Best wishes to

Weaving is one of the best ways to use up buckets of yarn scraps. And, it turns out, cardboard boxes too! This is a great project to take up a few hours and end up with a mountable little tapestry at the end of the day. You can make it with your kids and have them take turns weaving.

It seems like forever ago that we were dreaming up our ArtVend project that cold board meeting back in January 2010, we were just putting pen to paper designing the mural. It’s with great joy that ran the first test vend of the machine last week using our own board member’

Help get the word out about this great community project. We’ve made fliers, stickers and posters for you to download, print, and pass around. All fit on 8.5 X 11″ letter sized paper. The sticker paper is available at locally at Staples. Stickers (6 per page) – downl

Get the monthly Ames C.art eNews delivered directly to your inbox by signing up. Just enter your email in the sidebar and click submit. Feb/Mar 2011 | Issue #3 Notes from the Board We’ve been spending the last few months working out the details for the remainder of this year. It’s bee

For the February Creative Collision, we met at the local co-op,  Wheatsfield – what an amazing resource to have in our own community. If you are curious about becoming a member, what kinds of things they sell, or their upcoming events and cooking/health classes, make sure to che

On our own, many of us in Ames C.art have participated in charity making projects, many of them sending out handmade goods far out of Ames. And while many people all over the world need our help, people here in Ames need our help too! And that being the case, we decided to organize an

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