The Art Room’s
2026 Community Art Project:
Welcoming Spaces
Beautifying Denton County MHMR Child and Adolescent Center
As part of our mission and in concert with our North Texas Giving Day fundraising campaign, The Art Room historically has given back to the community by donating large-scale artworks to other Denton area nonprofits, collaborating with community members to design and create the artwork, while highlighting what it means to be a community.
Our 2026 Community Art Project, “Welcoming Spaces,” features community-created art installations that will beautify the Denton County MHMR Child and Adolescent Center.
This project will elevate the building’s waiting room, the playroom (childrens’ waiting room), family meeting room, and hallways. Walls will be painted with landscapes and decorated with painted wood trees, plants, and animals; we’ll create an origami mobile; and there will be interactive elements including crocheted stuffed animals, a flipboard about moods, a chalkboard, an electric “watering can” that lights up flowers, and a custom coded game, as well as installations on hallway floors.
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FIVE WAYS to Take Part
Join us in this great community project!
Pick up a take-home kit to paint some of the smaller wood cut-out plants and animals.
Pick up a take-home kit to make origami butterflies.
Pick up a take-home kit to crochet a stuffed animal.
Sign up for a linocut workshop to create a print for this project.
Sign up for a painting party to paint the larger wood cut-out trees, plants, and animals.
Kits are limited to first-come, first-served; pick-up hours are listed below. Attendance at the painting and linocut events is limited, so please reserve your spot now.
Take-Home Kits
Starting Thursday, July 23, pick up kits at The Art Room while available; all completed kits are due back at The Art Room by August 28.
The Art Room, 721 S. Locust St., Denton
Pick-up Hours:
Thursday, July 23, 3-5:30 p.m.
Friday, July 24, 11-3:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 25, 11-3:00 p.m.
Monday, July 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 28, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 29, 3-5:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 30, 3-5:30 p.m.
Friday, July 31, 11-3:00 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 1, 11-3:00 p.m.