Caroline Collective

At Caroline Collective we apply creativity whenever possible. The coworking space has been shaped by our innovative noise and visual damping draped ceiling solution, as well as our desks made from doors. Members of Caroline Collective use creativity in their daily operations also. For an example, TxRxLabs members have¬†made their own ring mail, built a Maker Bot, and developing an RFID door lock that auto-updates twitter. There’s also Erdos Miller, who in collaboration with Ned Dodington and Equipark (including¬†Sean Stoner) are working to develop a simple, elegant, parking meter powered by the sun.

Our lapsed weekly series, Craft Night, was (we felt) a great place for creative types to meet, work on their projects, and/or teach craft to others. We’ve seen scrapbooking, drawings, knitting, a duct tape fashion model and even Caroline Collective co-founder Ned Dodington’s soon-to-be-installed-at-Lawndale¬†hanging grass spheres.¬†In some special cases Craft Night’s have helped other organizations on large projects, for example, ¬†Fresh Arts CD wall, Spacetaker‘s painted light globes and The Orange Show‘s sugar skull decorating workshop.

With this holiday season approaching we feel it would only be appropriate to give you something to celebrate, right. away. A little head start on that tree trimming, light hanging, gift knitting and decoration making. A bit of quality time with an expert who can show you the components of a truly awful Christmas sweater. Some group therapy forming lumps of clay into the shape of small forest creatures to use as gopher bait.

Wait. What!?!

Yes, that’s right, Christmas sweaters. Matthew Wettergreen, who wears a hand-selected ludicrous Christmas sweater every. day. of. December. to raise money for charity will be on hand to help you design the worst sweater possible for your office Christmas party or family gathering. A short presentation may or may not be involved.

OH! You meant the gopher bait. Aha. We see.

Well, this year’s Fresh Arts and Glasstire fundraiser is entitled “Be The Ball” after everyone’s favorite golf film, Caddyshack (don’t look at me like that, Happy Gilmore doesn’t have Bill Murray). This yearly event continues to be one of Houston’s finest and raises money for Houston’s art scene. It’s sure to be a night of bad golf clothes, Rodney Dangerfield shtick and inevitably, someone showing up as The Gopher. Fresh Arts needs a little bit of help shaping some clay into the form of squirrels and other small rodents to be used as centerpieces at the event. If you’ve seen the movie, you know what we’re talking about. If not, see figure 1.

We do not expect that shaping the animals will take very long and we really just love to see all the crafty people being creative. So bring your craft projects over to Caroline Collective on December 1st starting at 7pm and if you feel like it, make a squirrel, if not just know that we love to see you.

WHAT: Holiday Craft Night at Caroline Collective
WHEN: Tuesday, December 1st, 2009, 7pm – 11pm
WHY: Learn the art of the bad Christmas sweater / form clay into forest creatures / work on craft projects