Van Buren Senior Services Block Party with artist Sarah Rydecki

Join artist Sarah Rydecki at this "Block Party!" at Van Buren Senior Services

This drop-in workshop is hosted at the Van Buren Senior Services and open to members there. 

During these Create and Connect art-making events, community members will be encouraged to express something about themselves as they design on wooden toy building blocks. All the uniquely individual wooden blocks will be put together as collaborative sculptures that represent unity, community, and creativity!

The Create and Connect project has been made possible through a Community Partners grant from a partnership between the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs and Arts Midwest. The grant asks communities to use arts and cultural projects to foster partnerships and to tackle problems important to the community. We have chosen to focus on community healing after two years of pandemic stress and isolation, as well as from the trauma of the shootings in…