Lifelong Learning

  Each month, the Holland Center offers an afternoon Open Studio in our art room.  Art instructor, Larry Charles, will be on hand to provide helpful advice about art materials and techniques as you work on a project of your own choice.  Feel free to create with your oil paint, acrylics, colored pencils, watercolor, gouache or drawing pencils. Ask for helpful tips or color combinations while the Open Studio instructor [...]

  Please join us in attending this new women's group. We all have stories worth sharing, and this is the perfect opportunity.  We use stories to make sense of our world and to share that understanding with others. This session is open to anyone who has wanted to come in the past, but couldn't. It is also open to anyone who would like to retake the class as a refresher. [...]

In this class, you will be making several 5"x7" collage cards that can be used as a small frameable artwork or even as a notecard. Use any of your beautiful papers that you have created or collected to create small artworks/cards. We will be working loosely with papers, paints, and various markers to create one of a kind art pieces.  All supplies will be provided except your any collage papers that you [...]

Historian and author Bill Staples, Jr. joins us to mark the beginning of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and the conclusion of the “Spotlight” series for Spring, 2023.  Executive Order 9066 was signed and issued during World War II by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. It authorized our military to force over 120,000 Japanese Americans into 10 prison camps across the United States.  Two of the largest prison camps [...]