The Hapeville Depot Museum offers a free, regular workshop for adults which combines art and history. Our goal is to have visitors explore history in a new way. Past workshops include: thinking about memory through collaging personal family photos, considering the impact of passed down traditions by learning to embroider warming tortilla cloths and learning the history and art of calligraphy. Through creating these experiences, we are able to make an impact and have visitors consider how history affects people today. The workshops are also a fun, stress free way for visitors to be creative and meet new people.

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Two women are smiling and holding embroidery hoops with purple and blue designs. They are sitting at a table with various items including a smartphone, markers, yarn, and other craft supplies. One woman is wearing glasses, a red and black plaid hat, and a beige hoodie, while the other has her hair in a top bun, glasses, and a black and white patterned shirt.
A woman in a green sweater stands at the front of a small room, smiling and holding a notebook, addressing a group of five seated adults. The room has beige walls decorated with colorful motivational posters and two windows showing a tree and a building outside.
Three women sitting at a table engaging in craft activities, including painting and decorating photographs, with art supplies and photographs on the table.
A group of diverse women and girls smiling and posing for a photo outdoors on a sunny day, standing on a brick sidewalk with trees and a utility pole in the background.
A group of women sitting at a long table covered with a black tablecloth, engaged in a creative activity involving photographs, paints, and brushes. The room has large windows letting in natural light.
Group of diverse people wearing gloves holding painted boards with white patterns, standing in a room with tables covered in art supplies and cardboard boxes, windows in the background.

Past Workshops:

May 2025 “Karakuri”

The history and creation of Karakuri puppets with Dr. Paulette Richards.

April 2025 “16 Tons”

The history and creation of limberjack folk art puppets with Dr. Paulette Richards.

March 2025 “Women Speak Truth to Power”

Puppetry, breathwork, and crafting narratives for performance with Dr. Paulette Richards.

February 2025 “African American Innovators in STEAM”

African American history and puppetry workshop with Dr. Paulette Richards.

August 2024 “ Traffic Cams: Create Your Future”

Collaborative textile workshop with Emma Chammah and Eddie Farr

July 2024 “Land and the History of Photography”

Chemigram workshop with Horacio Arias

June 2024 “Memory with Shadow Boxes”

Shadow Box workshop with Re:Merge Art Collective

May 2024 “The History and Artform of Henna”

Henna workshop and history of this ancient art with Leigh Ann Culver

January 2024 “The History of Craft and Batik”

Batik in the Nigerian tradition with Camisha Butler

December 2023 “Early Writing”

Calligraphy and the history of writing with Wilson Allen

October 2023 “Passing Down Traditions”

Embroidered Tortilla Warming Cloths with Yari J. Mena

September 2023 “Edit- Remix- Rethink”

Re-thinking memory and collage making with Yari J. Mena