Utility Works

🎨✨ Artists: Ready to grow your practice?

Making great work is only part of the equation. Building a sustainable creative career takes strategy, community, and knowing where to find opportunities.

Join artist, educator, and researcher Patricia Renee' Thomas for a workshop on Business Development for the Arts, where you'll learn practical tools for maintaining a healthy artist practice and creating a thriving, consistent career.

We'll cover:

🖼️ How to show your work and maintain an exhibition schedule

💰 Grants, residencies, sales, and funding opportunities

🤝 Building and sustaining your art community

Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your practice to the next level, this workshop is designed to help demystify the professional side of being an artist.

Led by Patricia Renee' Thomas, whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and who currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State University.

📍 Join us and invest in your creative future!

🌟Join us this June.

Whether you're an artist looking for professional guidance, a family seeking a creative afternoon together, or someone who simply wants to try something new, we've got a place for you.

✊🏾 Celebrate community at FINALLY FREEDOM
📖 Get creative at Pages of Pride
🎨 Grow your practice at SHOWING/UP

Art belongs to everyone—and there's a seat at the table waiting for you.

🔗 https://bit.ly/LEDC_UW_events

Support Utility Works is a place where entrepreneurs have access to education, support, and connections to succeed!

🎨 We’re getting ready for our next exhibition at the Kiosk Gallery

Install is starting, and watching a show come together piece by piece is always one of our favorite moments.

Up next: An Adoptee’s Artistic Journey by Utility Works member artist Emma Sarr (). This deeply personal body of work explores identity, culture, and self-discovery

✨ Join us for the Opening Reception
🗓 Saturday, April 25, 3–5 PM
📍 Kiosk Gallery at Utility Works, 32 East Baltimore Ave, Lansdowne
🔗 RSVP and Learn More: https://bit.ly/KioskGallery

🎨✨ Something creative is always happening with the LEDC
Check out some of our upcoming classes, openings, and creative community events happening across LEDC programs.
From ceramics and fiber arts to art shows and theater readings, there’s always something going on.

👉 See more and RSVP: bit.ly/LEDC_UW_events

🎨 Last Chance to See Lansdowne Roots

This Saturday is your final opportunity to experience Lansdowne Roots at the Utility Works Kiosk Gallery.

Featuring artists who grew up just blocks apart in Lansdowne, the exhibition reflects on how place shapes creative work over time—through memory, observation, and everyday life.

🗓 Closing Saturday
🕙 Thursday and Friday noon-8pm, Saturday 10 AM – 6 PM
📍 Utility Works Kiosk Gallery, 32 E Baltimore Ave, Lansdowne

We loved this weekend’s Professional Development workshop 💭🎨

We got to spend time talking about something a lot of artists don’t get taught: how to position your work so people actually understand it, connect with it, and hire you for it. Because making the work is only part of it.

At LEDC, we’re not just creating space for artists, we’re trying to build real pathways: ➡️ to audiences ➡️ to opportunities ➡️ to sustainable creative work

More to come soon — including a workshop on working with galleries 👀

Something new to try this month at Utility Works 🎨

Whether you’re getting your hands in clay for the first time or building on your creative practice, we’ve got a full lineup of workshops designed to get you making:

🌀 Wheel Throwing
🎉 An Art Supply Free Fair
🪴 Plant Pot Making
🧵 Tapestry Workshop
🧚 Fairy House Workshop

🔗 Learn more + register: bit.ly/LEDC_UW_events

🎨 CALLING ALL LOCAL MIDDLE SCHOOL ARTISTS!

Got creativity? We want to SEE IT 👀✨ Utility Works is hosting a Kiosk Art Show just for young artists ages 10–13 👩‍🎨

🌟 DETAILS
- Open to creatives ages 10–13
-Must live in Lansdowne or attend school within 2 miles of Lansdowne
- You can submit up to 3 artworks
- FREE to apply

👉 Apply now: https://bit.ly/2026KidsShow
⏰ Deadline to apply: April 23 at 11:59pm
📩 Questions? [email protected]