Who We Are

Hungry?
We feed souls!

Spacious Dude
O' the Week

February 2, 2016 began our 10th year.

(Design a Dude for our website!)

Click here to view some cheers for A Spacious Place.

A Message from our Founder/Executive Director

           Everybody matters...everybody.

           Everyone is creative. It's in our DNA.

A Spacious Place is a member of the Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations.

The Key2Violence Project: click here for more information on how the project began.

What We're Doing

Tailgate Offerings: A Spacious Place enjoys loading the trunks of our vehicles with creative goodies and motoring out to group homes, apartment complexes, camp sites, churches, and campuses. We currently provide service to the Mary Lee Foundation and Bona Terra, among others. If you know of an organization that might benefit from A Spacious Place's Tailgate Offerings, we'd love to hear from you! Contact kaye@aspaciousplace.com.

"Imaginations Run Wild" Party Services

An A Spacious Place party ignites imaginations: under the guidance of our Spacious Crew, guests create their own fun. Whether it's a child's birthday party, a pool get-together, or an after-school event, our trained and background-checked artisans bring their best. And we bring the party to you! Click here for more information.

Young Artists Club

We move kids from imagination into creation!
Click here to view the Top Ten reasons to join the Young Artists Club.

Who?  Students in 1st Grade or older with BIG imaginations

What?  A club that helps students turn their imaginations into visual art forms. After exploring the life and work of the "Artist of the Month," club members will create original pieces based on his/her subjects and style.

Where?  A Spacious Place:  7105 Gentle Oak Dr. Austin, TX 78749

When?  2nd Saturday of each Month     1-4 pm

Come dressed to make art!

Why?  Because it's fun to play with art materials!

Click here to enroll online or by phone (512-807-6863). Yearly dues are $65 for all students. Registration papers (emailed or posted to you after you register your student) are due the first day a student attends.

Next meeting: October 8, 2016 at 1:00 pm

Artist of the month hint: Viewing the artist's work is like looking in a mirror. Her weakness was her strength.

Scholarships are available. Contact David McKee at David@aspaciousplace.com or call 512.807.6863.

What We're Dreaming

Check out our upcoming Offerings: Click on the Offerings tab above to view upcoming A Spacious Place offerings, including creativity courses, arts events, concerts, and showings. The Offerings tab also has information on previous courses.

A Spacious Place Blog: It's here. Click on the Blog tab above to see our blog. Sign up and join our community conversation. We look forward to hearing from you!

Graffiti Wall: A Spacious Place provides space for your creative expression. If you have a brief meditation, a poem, or any random thoughts, click here to submit them. We will post your creative work for others to read. No profanity please.

Our "Playground Principles" represent a compilation of wisdom from the fields of education, pastoral care, spiritual direction, and even global economics. We use these principles in all of our offerings.

What We've Done

A Spacious Place was born on Groundhog Day, 2007. Since then we have hosted 12 creativity camps, some onsite and others at SafePlace and SafePlace affiliates. Camp themes included Celebrate Creativity, Kids Rock!, Super Heroes, Myth & Magic, Technical Difficulties, Mystery, Slice-O-Life Multi-cultural Arts, and Crazy Dreams. We provide ongoing creativity classes to Mary Lee Foundation's Daybreak and to Bona Terra, and a monthly Young Artists Club and a Young Writers Club. Our Young Writers Club wrote and published a book. Our Young Artists Club had a gallery show. We also host Ramah Faith, a website for creative expressions of grief and loss, as well as an online prayer wall.

We've hosted classes on C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, on photography, on arts expressions for life's agonies & ecstasies, on the Beatitudes, on creative writing, on the Dark Night of the Soul, and on CPR & First Aid. We've provided one-day creativity centers for AISD Project Help's Empowerment Academy, VSA's Art in the Park, Spirit Rein's Day Camp, and Help Portrait. We produced a children's production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and hope to stage more plays in the future.

Each November we host Gifted2Give: a service event in which participants create holiday gifts at low or no cost from simple or recycled materials. We began "The Key to Violence Project," which encourages persons to transform violence through love and creativity.

Spirit Whispers

A Spacious Place's seminal event was a doctoral project offered by Kaye McKee in which participants explored God metaphors through their own creative expression. Click here for more information.