CRAFT DAY 2025 AT THE HOUSTON CRAFT MUSEUM

 

Our Group

As you can see from the group photo and the throwdown in the header, we had a slightly smaller group for this sketchout. Notice was short due to a cancellation, but we all had fun watching all the demonstrations and touring the various booths in the garden and the museum. It was community craft day and there were booths with demonstrations and items for sale all over the museum and the grounds at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

Fran

Fran and Janelle chose to draw inside the museum itself and commemorate the entire event.

Janelle

Jeff took a collage approach with several drawings in colored pencil.

Jeff

Susan

Susan also drew a variety of the activities going on, but stuck to just ink.

Michael

Michael focused in on the wood turners.

Chris

I found an interesting basket weaver.

A whole group of sketchers stayed outside and enjoyed the lovely day in the adjoining garden space.

Kim

Kim even caught a fellow sketcher hard at work.

Melissa 

Melissa found an interesting tree.

Akhil

Akhil was interested in the fountain.

Daryl

Daryl studied the forms of the garden bed wall in ballpoint

Chetna

Chetna found a booth to draw.

Angelica

Angelica did a slightly different take on a tree and one of the sketchers.

Michael

Michael did a study of his fellow sketchers.

It was a lovely day to be sketching outdoors.

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YES! There will be a December sketchout. Watch FB and Insta for an announcement.

Dr Butter and Pocket Pies

On Saturday the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft celebrated it's 10th anniversary. D, S and I have enjoyed many openings and exhibits in the wonderful space at HCCC over the years. (as observers not exhibitors) The weather was cooler and of course clear, on account of the drought, so we headed into town to check it out.Cool Dr. Butter carved ice sculptures with a chain saw, spraying ice shavings over a shrieking audience of kids. He even carved an ice beer mug, filled it with beer, and handed it off too, the ultimate frosty mug.I visited with a lady that was dying fabric with plant roots and spinning cotton boles into cotton thread. How could I not have a pocket pie from a food truck called "Oh My Pocket Pie" for lunch? Unfortunately, I was too full when the ice cream truck rolled in dispensing FREE ICE CREAM to jump in on that gig. S on the other hand was skulking around trying to figure out how to get round 2 on the ice cream, and that is after he had already decorated and eaten a chocolate cupcake at the Sprinkles booth.

The HCCC is just part of the museum district in Houston, within walking distance of the Contemporary Art Museum, Hou. Museum of Fine Art, Children's Museum, Holocaust Museum, Museum of Natural History and the Zoo.