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part 3 game boards, map-making, and digital art. game maker workshop.

Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 12:30pm

Digital Media Lab

For this 4-part series of workshops, we will explore tabletop game design! These are no-experience-required workshops that introduce attendees to making games with cards, dice, tokens, boards, or in the mind with plenty of rules! Part 3: Game boards...

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a book with a classic painting as a book jacket, on top of another book with a modern design

Monday, June 30, 2025 - 6:30pm

Digital Media Lab

Bring in a couple of your paperback books with misleading or unpleasant cover designs, and we'll create custom book jackets! After measuring your book, we'll use Canva to make a template you can fill with their clip art, background images you find...

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part 4 Writing Game Rules and Designing Game Books. game maker workshop.

Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 12:30pm

Digital Media Lab

For this 4-part series of workshops, we will explore tabletop game design! These are no-experience-required workshops that introduce attendees to making games with cards, dice, tokens, boards, or in the mind with plenty of rules! Part 4: Writing...

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bl;ack and white and color all over

Monday, July 14, 2025 - 6:30pm

Digital Media Lab

Let’s play with photo coloring in Photoshop! - Try its AI-powered colorizing feature for vintage photos - Learn how to start with a modern color photo and make everything black and white except for the main subject Please bring digital photos you...

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Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 2:30pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Kathy and other volunteers from our local K9 Ambassador program, sponsored by the lowa City Dog Obedience Club, will use handpicked dogs to help teach attendees about dog safety and etiquette. Following an educational presentation, enjoy tricks and...

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Yarn dyeing with kool-aid for adults

Monday, July 21, 2025 - 6:30pm

Meeting Room A

Here’s a craft you’ve been “dyeing” to try! We’ll use Kool-Aid to dye wool yarn in this fun, hands-on workshop. You'll leave with around 50 yards of yarn in a one-of-a-kind color. There will be down time as part of the process, so feel free to...

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Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - 2:30pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Create your own unique, colorful bouquet of local blooms when Kara Krapfl of Lovely Bunches Farm teaches us the thoughtful, meditative art of flower arranging. All Abilities Club programs are designed for those who are neurodivergent, or who...

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cricut stencils

Monday, August 4, 2025 - 6:30pm

Digital Media Lab

The Cricut's precision cutting is a natural for making stencils. Many materials could be cut for different painting techniques: specialized Cricut stencil material, transparency plastic, cardstock, contact paper, or removable vinyl. In this...

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intro to craftivism embroidery

Saturday, August 9, 2025 - 1:00pm

Meeting Room A

Shannon Downey (aka Badass Cross Stitch and author of Let's Move the Needle: an activism handbook for artists, crafters, creatives, and makers) will join us via Zoom on the big screen to share everything we need to know to start stitching staggering...

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