Lifelong Learning

Spend a splendid afternoon with a wonderful local artist!  Learn how to use Coffee Dye papers and make Marks with with Gesso, Watercolors & Metallic Paints. These gorgeous, one of a kind papers can be used in your journaling, scrapbooking, notecards & other artistic projects! Mimi Damrauer will fill you with new and inventive ideas for creating wonderful things out of paper! All supplies included. Wed., March 1 - 10:00am [...]

Are you a woman who would like to feel more empowered in your relationships?  Would you like to be more confident in your encounters with others?  We are starting two new 4 week classes that will make such a difference in your life. Kelley Bird, your instructor, is offering an hour-long class that will explain to you what this class is all about.  This free introduction, is on March 2 [...]

Harmony Hollow, in Cave Creek, is a triangular piece of land that reaches the boundaries of Spur Cross Ranch.  It is 28 acres of desert, wildlife, and history. Much like Spur Cross Ranch, the land contains Native American Pit Houses, Pueblos, and ruins from long ago when the land was home to the Hohokam. "The whole thing is full of archaeology" says Gary Smitt, former president and founder of the [...]

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 is [...]