On one Saturday each month, Art Enables offers a free art workshop for people of all ages.

This past weekend, the nonprofit in the Woodridge neighborhood, just south of Mount Rainier, held a workshop on making small clay hanging vessels.

Dozens of people came to either make a small pot out of air-drying modeling clay or paint an already-dry clay pot at its studio-slash-gallery at 2204 Rhode Island Ave. NE, near the Zeke’s Coffee roastery.

Other recent workshops have included making talking puppets, laying mosaic tiles and decorating shoes.

Started in 2001, Art Enables is a nonprofit that offers vocational programs and gallery space to artists with various developmental and cognitive disabilities.

Community Partnerships Coordinator Amy Kitchin said that the Saturday workshops are a way to expand their reach, adding that they have proven very popular with the community, including a number of regular visitors.

“We want it to be accessible to anyone of any age and ability,” she said.

The workshops are typically held on a Saturday each month at Art Enables and advertised on its events page. The nonprofit is taking June off, so the next one will be held on Saturday, July 20.

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