Reflecting on Building Community through Art at Roxhill Park!
As summer comes to a close, we reflect on the quality time spent integrating arts, nature, and neighborhood in the Delridge area. It’s crucial for a community to have free, accessible, and welcoming spaces where people can come together and co-create, contributing to a healthier neighborhood. One way DNDA engaged with this was through a […]
Reflecting on Building Community through Art at Roxhill Park
As summer comes to a close, we reflect on the quality time spent integrating arts, nature, and neighborhood in the Delridge area. It’s crucial for a community to have free, accessible, and welcoming spaces where people can come together and co-create, contributing to a healthier neighborhood. One way DNDA engaged with this was through a […]
Kids embark on adventures, learn to rock climb at Camp Long
In April, fifteen elementary and middle school students spent their spring break with Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) at our ninth annual EcoArts Spring Nature Camp. For five days, the kids explored the forests and trails of Camp Long — a 68-acre urban forest located in Delridge — with boundless curiosity. The camp is hosted […]
How DNDA’s watercolor classes build community through creativity
Room 102 at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center has been buzzing with creativity and laughter every Wednesday during Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association’s (DNDA) watercolor mixed-media art classes. DNDA’s Art team started offering watercolor classes free to the community in fall 2023 in hopes the activity would bring neighbors together. Our team’s hopes were exceeded when the […]
Artist Spotlight: EcoArts with Franc Monke
Franc Monke, a nature-based artist, is teaching a new EcoArts class at Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association’s (DNDA) Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, based in West Seattle. Franc has dedicated their artistic journey to intertwining art and community, and we wanted to tell a sliver of their story for this month’s “Artist Spotlight.” Franc was exposed to […]
Artist Spotlight: EcoArts with Jules Hepp
Before joining Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) as staff, Jules Hepp worked with us as a teaching artist throughout the coronavirus pandemic. To celebrate Jules’ one-year anniversary with DNDA as our environmental education coordinator, we want to look back at their time as a teaching artist for this month’s installment of “Artist Spotlight.” Jules followed […]
Artist Spotlight: Self-Love Art Club with Danitra Hunter
DNDA works with talented artists from across Delridge and West Seattle, and we want to highlight them and their amazing work. So, welcome to a new series from DNDA – Artist Spotlight. We are honored to have one of DNDA’s newest teaching artists, Danitra Hunter, as our first spotlight. Danitra was one of our teaching […]
DNDA’s Summer Youth Program
We at DNDA are celebrating another successful and enriching experience with our Summer Youth Program (SYP). SYP offered expansive art, recreational, and educational programming at no cost to families living in the Seattle Housing Authority housing sites in the High Point, NewHolly, and Rainier Vista neighborhoods. Longtime favorites such as cooking, soccer, EcoArts in the […]
A Walk in the Woods with Spring Nature Camp
The EcoArts Fusion Spring Camp put on this spring by DNDA was a week full of creativity, exploration, and collaboration at the beautiful Camp Long. For years, Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association has offered a free spring camp focused on outdoor activities for youth from the High Point neighborhood. We are grateful to all the families, […]
Register for EcoArts Fusion Spring Nature Camp!
EcoArts Fusion Spring Nature Camp Camp Long 5200 35th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98126 Monday to Friday, April 10th – 14th, 2023 Registration Form Have more than two students in your family to enroll? Submit another copy of this page to add additional students. [gravityform id=”32″ title=”true” description=”true”]
