January 2025

Join us to ring in the new year with light and celebration

Mark your calendars for a fun and festive January!

Dec. 31 - "2025" will be installed in Depot Sq. for your New Year photo opp

Week of January 6 @ 7pm - lantern-making workshops happening daily

(free, but registration required)

Saturday, January 11 @ 4:30 pm - the LexLux kick-off party

Make your way to Depot Square with your lantern or flashlight! There will be a community light sculpture project, LED spirograph portraits, an interactive light display, campfire and hot chocolate, animated projection mapping onto the Depot building, and a group drone photo to capture it all!

January 11 - 29 - illuminated displays on buildings in our Cultural District

Read more about LexLux online + sign up for a lantern-making workshop!

Help us reach our year-end goal of $50,000!

Upcoming Workshops & Classes

LexLux Lantern Workshops

Come make a lantern here, and bring it to the LexLux event on January 11th to be part of the community drone photo, and for your own celebrations.

LANTERN TAKE & MAKE KITS

Sponsored by Cary Library

Monday, Jan. 6

UPCYCLED LANTERNS

Sponsored by MCA Teen Art Mentors

Tuesday, Jan. 7

COLONIAL TIN-PUNCHED LANTERNS

Sponsored by Lex. Historical Society

Wednesday, Jan. 8

DIWALI LANTERNS

Sponsored by IAL

Thursday, Jan. 9

CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL LANTERNS

Sponsored by CAAL & New Legacy Cultural Center

Friday, Jan. 10

Get Creative This Winter

There’s still time to register for classes in ceramics, visual arts, and printmaking! Sign up here for youth and adult classes. 

NEW CLASS SPOTLIGHT

Art Adventures Studio

Youth K - 5

Select Fridays from 2-4pm

Choose from 1, 2, or all 3 class sessions. Our talented teen mentors will guide kids in creating 3D sculptures with a unique STEAM based approach. Come for fun, creative exploration, and teamwork too!

All Ages Creature Creation

This intergenerational class will give kids, teens, and adults the chance to work individually or collaboratively with ceramics - perfect for a family to be creative together!

It might be cold outside, but we’re planning for a super fun SUMMER CAMP season now! Weekly themed sessions for kids in rising grades K-6 provide a variety of arts activities, indoor and outdoors, with daily recess too!

Registration opens Jan. 6 @ 9am

Weeks & themes are online now.

Can’t wait until summer for camp? Come join us for FEBRUARY SCHOOL VACATION week, registration opens Jan. 6 too!

In the Community

Pet Memorial Tree

We invite you to remember a pet at our Pet Memorial Tree. Pet owners and animal lovers alike are encouraged to hang a memento on the tree on the MCA’s front lawn in memory of a special pet. Items to hang need to be waterproof to withstand winter weather.

The tree is donated by Wilson Farm, and up through January.

Lexington Open Studios

April 5 & 6, 2025

Are you an artist or a craftsperson?

Join us for the weekend!



If you have an affiliation with Lexington, or live in a nearby community you can join us. Share in either a community space, or a studio with another artist in town. Show your process, sell your work, and be a part of the weekend.

Early Registration is open now

www.lexingtonopenstudios.com

Coat Drive



Share the warmth this season and donate a gently used coat to the Lion’s Club coat drive,

Drop-off is in the bin just inside the MCA back door - beginning again January 2nd for the month!

Shout Out to Maxima Books!

Many thanks to our newest Business Sponsor, Maxima Gift & Book Center. We love to support our local businesses, and love it when they support us too! We walked in for a photo opp, and out with a bag full of books and puzzles! #hadtolinger

Find out how your business can support community arts - email us!

Wonder what we've been doing this year? All our newsletters are archived on our website

We have an ambitious year ahead of us with COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING & BUILDING STEWARDSHIP.

Every dollar helps to ensure that our home for community arts thrives in 2025!

Thank you to our community supporters for helping us to bring art to life!