SWEET EVENTS FOR ALL AGES
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HELP BUILD CANDY LANE!
Calling all gumdrop architects! Candy Lane needs your help building the sweetest village ever inside of the City Arts Center in Round Rock! This is a free event for all ages.
Saturday, Dec. 6
Drop-in anytime: 10:30am–4:30pm
Cost: Free
Decorate your own gingerbread house front to add to a sugary community art installation. Hosted by sugar artists from Capital Confectioners/Capital City Cake Club, we provide everything—candy, icing, sprinkles, and you bring plenty of sugary inspiration. Bring the family and come help us make Candy Lane Village come to life!
TAKE-HOME GINGERBREAD WORKSHOPS
Prefer to build a full gingerbread house to take home? Join
 for their festive, hands-on workshops!
December 13 & 20
Advance registration requested: https://capitalconfectioners.com/shop/
These workshops are separate from the community project and offer you more detailed instruction and a finished, take-home gingerbread creation!
Extended Hours in the City Arts Center for Your Holiday Gift Shopping, December 2-23, 2025: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11am-8pm
On View December 2-December 23, 2025
Welcome to a holiday full of color, charm, and creativity! From candy-coated crafting events to a sugar art display and sweet shop from Capital Confectioners to heartwarming local art, the City Arts Center is a family fun place to celebrate all things merry and imaginative this December!
Candy Lane Village
Capital Confectioners/Capital City Cake Club, a talented group of sugar artists, presents its Candy Lane Village, with a confectionary shop, holiday sugar sculpture displays, and a chance for kids and families to add to the gingerbread village during special events!
Shop Locally for the Holidays
We know how much you love to shop for art that charms your heart. Peruse warm, whimsical, and heart-filled works by four local artists — featuring Norma Gely, David Mercado, KB Newcomer, and Amanda Zappler.
• Norma Gely: Blending music, culture, and nature: https://gelyart.gallery/
• KB Newcomer: Intricate papercut artwork full of detail: https://www.kbnewcomerstudio.com
• David Mercado: Paintings that share the beauty of wildlife: https://www.instagram.com/davidmercadoatx/
• Amanda Zappler: Storybook-style imagined worlds of people, creatures, and places:
Support Local/Area Visual Artists
Mainly Art is a vibrant outdoor celebration of creativity, putting the spotlight on 15 different visual artists each month. Stroll downtown’s charming Main Street to discover a diverse array of artwork and glean inspiration too! It’s called Mainly Art because it takes place on Main Street—and it’s all about art!
This series will take place on September 27, October 25, November 15, and December 13, with an array of different artists for you to meet and shop from each time! For our September 27 directory of artists that you can shop from and meet, please click here.Â
Participate as an artist at our Mainly Art event this Fall 2025 in Downtown Round Rock. Click here for guidelines/application. This is a free opportunity for artists to present and sell their work. Â
We're Going Places!
We can’t wait to move into our new home in the Griffith Building, across the street from our current address. We’ll be one of a number of contributors to this new building, which you may recognize as the former library building! Click here to read more about the Griffith Building renovation project.Â
Pick With Austin Partnership
The City Arts Center serves as a welcoming pickup/drop off point for the local mental health awareness nonprofit Pick With Austin (http://pickwithaustin.com).Â
Connect directly with Pick With Austin to inquire about its no-fee instrument program, or stop by the gallery to see if we have an instrument on display that might be of use to you. A goal of this nonprofit is to help youth through the gift of music, by way of no-fee instruments and musical equipment. Have an instrument to donate? Bring it to the gallery, and we’ll pass it along to the nonprofit organization for you.Â
We Welcome You!
The City Arts Center is a public space where you can savor art in welcoming environment. In other words, we are an unpretentious and inviting space for you to recharge yourself by checking out local creativity! For local and area artists, we invite you to scroll above to see what Call for Art exhibit opportunities that might be of interest to you and your creativity! We welcome artists at all stages of their careers, from the very first time one has exhibited, along with new, emerging, and professional artists alike.Â
Who are we? The City Arts Center is staffed and managed by the City of Round Rock Arts and Culture.Â
Contact
The City Arts Center
Main number: 512-341-3113
Fred Cooley
Arts and Culture Associate
fcooley@roundrocktexas.gov
737-775-4870 (Cell)
512-671-2884 (Office)
Christina Rudofsky
Arts and Culture Manager
crudofsky@roundrocktexas.gov
512-801-0698 (Cell)
512-218-3298 (Office)
Location
The City Arts Center
231 East Main Street, Suite 160
Round Rock, TX 78664
Hours
November Hours:
Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm (and extended until 8pm during Music on Main Wednesday nights)
Plus, open during Mainly Art on Saturday, November 15Â from 10am-3pm
December Hours:Â
Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-8pm
