Welcome, fig readers!
This season celebrates giving – so we’d like to say THANK YOU to Deb, Tracy, Matt and all the folks at Fig for supporting Open Studio this year by giving us the opportunity to partner with them as a social mission. Already, because of their partnership, we have made several new relationships with the community including several local artists and volunteers of all mediums, passions and abilities.
Thank you for helping us grow! Our interactive arts initiative at Water Street Ministries is still young but this year has been a great adventure, full of surprises and blessing from the artist community. We’ve loved meeting local folks passionate about art, people and the opportunity to make change. Please continue to join us in developing projects, new opportunities, shows and workshops.
Scroll down for current opportunities!
About Open Studio
Art gives a voice to the voiceless. Art gives healing. Art gives. We invite you to be a part of OPEN STUDIO, a new journey to engage the arts and the Lancaster Community with Water Street Ministries.
The breadth and impact of this initiative is dependent on community and volunteer involvement.
Over the years, many individuals have approached Water Street Ministries with creative ideas of how they could use their talents within our five divisions: the Lydia Center, Teen Haven, Water Street Health Services, the Water Street Mission and Wonder Club Early Learning Centers. After dialoguing together to see how their idea could meet a need and make a difference, volunteers have conducted exercise classes, poetry classes, journaling classes, drawing classes, and more.
The impact has been huge, for both clients and volunteers. Stories are told, healing takes place and the goodness of God is praised!
Would you like to help lead or develop a creative project? Here are some examples of projects we've done:
Art Therapy Classes at the Lydia Center
Recycled Fashion Workshop at Teen Haven
Creative Morning Devotionals with the women at the Water Street Mission
To share your ideas or learn more, email Contact@WaterStreetMinistries and type 'Open Studio' in the subject line.
Many thanks to fig for partnering with this initiative!
Current Opportunities
Craft Volunteer Opportunities at Teen Haven Camp
· Host an arts/craft activity at Teen Haven Camp. We invite your creative ideas! If interested contact the Teen Haven offices to discuss at 717-393-2716 or email Janae.Dagen@WaterStreetMinistries.org.
Water Color supplies for the Lydia Center!
Have you read about our current art class at the Lydia Center? If not – follow us here:
Art Therapy Classes at the Lydia Center
To continue the class we’d love to start 2011 off with water colors!
We’re looking for:
- A variety of water colors in tubes
- 20 water color pads
- Supplies are needed by the first week of January 2011.
Contact Donna @ LydiaCenter@WaterStreetMinistries.org or (717) 252-5986 x115
Creative Morning Devotionals with women at the Water Street Mission
Have a Wednesday morning free? Have a heart for the homeless? Want to make a difference? Come lead an hour long creative devotional for the women in our mission! From journaling to drawing to modeling clay – we’re open to your ideas and talents. Think: simple projects with a spiritual context and lots of hands on creative time!
Creative devotional times are available monthly on Wednesday mornings (9-10am)
- Volunteer is responsible for set-up/clean-up
- Volunteer is responsible for all supplies
Read about an example of one of our creative devotionals here:
http://waterstreetlife.blogspot.com/2010/08/prayer-jars.html
Email Paul at Contact@WaterStreetMinistries.org with your ideas and interest!
Have another workshop or creative idea?
From urban youth to famlies in homelessness to women in recovery - there may be a good fit for your creativity and passion! Please contact us - even if it's just to learn more! Email Contact@WaterStreetMinistries and type 'Open Studio' in the subject line.
Current Art Shows and Events
Restoring Lancaster City: A Photo Essay by Teen Haven 
Our photo show is up at City Gate of Lancaster - January/February!
This past summer urban youth at Teen Haven undertook a photography project to answer the question “Who is restoring Lancaster City?”
Teen Haven’s current Leadership Development Program is also called ‘Restore.’ Youth participants like these young photographers are encouraged to grow as leaders as they discover and become equipped with ways to live, love, and serve to restore the world around them!
Learn more:
www.TeenHaven.org or Restoring Lancaster City: A Photo Essay
SPECIAL THANKS TO: Heads Up! http://headsuplancaster.org/ for letting us borrow their cameras for this project!
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What is Home? Photography Exhibit
Children living at Water Street Mission answer a simple question: What is Home?
Currently exhibiting at Manor Church.
For show availability please contact Paul at Contact@WaterStreetMinistries.org.
Thank you for making a difference!
Fig Magazine - for partnering with us in 2010 by making Open Studio one of your social missions!
Prima Theater - for benefiting Open Studio with a fantastic show around the theme of hope and for including time for some spoken word from Teen Haven at the show! Hear Angel's poem here.
Angel reading his poem at Songs of Hope:
Prince St. Cafe - we've had 3 art/photography shows up at the cafe now! What an awesome adventure it has been.
My Aunt Debbie - thanks for the wonderful Recylced Fashion workshop at Teen Haven!
Heads Up! - thanks for letting us borrow your camera's for our RESTORE photography project! Also for coming out to Family Day to interact with our community through some junkyard drumming!
Kevin Lehman Pottery - thanks for helping us create our very first piece of public art for our Prince St. Campus! Our community is so excited to see the final mosaic which they helped to create! And thanks to Ten Thousand Villages for donating beautiful broken pottery to add to the mosaic!
The mosaic in action!
