Please join us for our seventh annual HANDS-ON HOUSTON FAMILY FESTIVAL, a free community event. Families and visitors of all ages are invited to this fun day of indoor/outdoor activities. This year, HCCC celebrates fiber with hands-on activities, demonstrations by local artists, and more!
- Learn a variety of techniques for working with fiber
- Create wet-felted bracelets and sew your own wall hanging
- Join Workshop Houston’s Style Shop, a nonprofit youth program, for printing on textiles
- See live demonstrations, including natural dying with current resident artists Liz Robb and Molly Koehn, The Creeping Vine Project by former resident Rebecca Braziel, and the Houston Area Machine Knitters
- View the fall exhibitions in our galleries: Storyline: The Contemporary Quilt, For Hire: Contemporary Sign Painting in America, and The Sound of Things
- Shop for one-of-a-kind gifts and home décor in the Asher Gallery
- Enjoy food and refreshments on site from local food truck, Food Music Life
Parking: The HCCC parking lot will be blocked off for activities and food trucks, but street parking is available nearby.
Follow HCCC on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @CraftHouston. To follow the event online and share your images, please use #HandsOnHouston.
The HANDS-ON HOUSTON FAMILY FESTIVAL is a super-sized version of HANDS-ON HOUSTON, a free craft-activity open house at HCCC on the first Saturday of every month (11 AM – 3 PM). Each month, a teaching artist demonstrates a craft related to current exhibitions and events. Families and children of all ages are welcome, and materials are provided.