Please Join Us this Saturday!
The Big Build | National Building Museum
Saturday, November 5, 2022, 11 AM – 4 PM

All ages are invited to The Big Build, a FREE hands-on festival exploring a wide variety of unique, interactive activities with roofers, plumbers, home re-modelers, construction workers, carpenters, artisans, and the ZCAF Mobile Woodshop!

The Big Build festival fills the Museum’s Great Hall with interactive booths including a nail driving contest and a structural engineering station with an earthquake simulation to discover how buildings can be built to be more stable. Everyone will be using real tools. more about

The ZCAF Mobile Woodshop invites the public to try their hand at turning wood on a mini-lathe, and to see the innovative truck that is a woodshop on wheels.

For information, contact Lynda Smith-Bugge at 202-783-8005 | email: zcaf@zcaf.org

New Class - Open registration - All ages 15 and older welcome!
Basic Woodworking Class at Iris Street Studio
Saturdays: December 3rd – 10th and 17th , 10:30am - 12:30pm
Limited to 4 students | $225 for three weeks (includes material costs)

At 1429 Iris Street, NW, Washington, DC 20012
202-873-8005 | zcaf@zcaf.org

Learn basic woodworking skills with Christian Hudson in a three-week class at Zenith Community Arts Foundation’s Iris Street Studio.
This new course is designed for anyone who would like to try their hand at creative woodworking. All ages, 15 and older are welcome. Build your confidence with a simple hands-on project. Skills learned are the future building blocks of other woodworking projects you may undertake.

Create one of a kind custom-made gift for family and friends! This class will cover the basics of woodshop tools, shop safety, design & finishing for making a medium size cutting board with multiple hardwoods. The three-week course will consist of three 2-hour sessions in the Zenith Community Arts Foundation’s Iris Street Studio. You will learn how to operate various shop tools including a table saw, planer, miter saw.

Christian Hudson is a woodworker, who earned a Master of Architecture at Howard University. He currently works for STUDIOS Architecture where he works collaboratively with architectural and interiors projects.

to sign up Call Lynda at 202-783-8005
or Email: lynda@zcaf.org
Class schedule:
Saturday, Dec 3 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Saturday, Dec 10 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Saturday, Dec 17 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Support Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF)

‘Classroom on Wheels’ Teaches Woodworking Skills to Young People

Margery Goldberg, Zenith’s director, said the goal of the woodshop is “to get people jobs.” Goldberg is an artist, wood sculptor and longtime member of the D.C. art community. She had long dreamed of creating a mobile woodshop to assist students. That dream finally came true in 2020, when the city gave her a large grant for the program.
Read about the Mobile Woodshop and Margery Goldberg in The Washington Business Journal
Find out about ZCAF’s Pre-Apprenticeship Carpentry Training at
Ballou STAY Opportunity Academy, East of the Anacostia River & in DC's Ward 8.
The goals of the program are to build career pathways to economic stability, strengthening access to high-quality employment, and engage companies involved in construction and woodworking who might be able to employ PACT students. 202-783-8005 | www.zcaf.org
Supporting Zenith Community Arts Foundation
100% of all sales proceeds benefit the Zenith Community Foundation
Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization committed to arts advocacy, arts education, and public art, as well as using art and creativity to enrich the Greater Washington DC area, with an emphasis on our local community. Based in the Shepherd Park neighborhood of Ward 4, ZCAF achieves our goals by fostering alliances between area artists, businesses, other non-profits, and government agencies.

Our goal is to teach skills to a new generation, specifically woodworking and finished carpentry. As wood shops vanish from schools, it is more and more difficult to learn wood working at any life stage.

1429 Iris St., NW, Washington, DC 20012-1409 | 202-783-8005 | www.zcaf.org | zcaf@zcaf.org