We had an amazing and creative 2015 with our outreach partners! In December, the women from St. Patrick Center, the Center for Women in Transition, and Lydia’s House came to our shop… Read more »

With just a few simple supplies, the women in our outreach programs created breathtaking sun-catchers this month! Our instructors visited the Center for Women in Transition, St. Patrick Center and… Read more »

This month, the women in our outreach workshops learned basic woodworking skills and created custom pendants. The women at St. Patrick Center, the Center for Women in Transition, and Lydia’s House cut, carved,… Read more »

This month, the women at St. Patrick Center, the Center for Women in Transition, Lydia’s House, and Shalom House learned to make personal looms from found cardboard boxes. After setting up their… Read more »

This month, the women at St. Patrick Center, the Center for Women in Transition, Lydia’s House, and Shalom House learned to make personal looms from found cardboard boxes. After setting up their… Read more »

With the start of summer, we can’t stop thinking about outdoor time in the garden. Perennial’s instructors decided to bring a little bit of the outdoors into our outreach workshops… Read more »

This month, our teaching artists traveled to St. Patrick Center, the Center for Women in Transition, Lydia’s House, and Shalom House to share the simplicity of leather working! Using leather from damaged jackets… Read more »

In honor of Earth Month, we’ve been making mini insect hotels with the women of St. Patrick Center, the Center for Women in Transition, Lydia’s House, and Shalom House. These little tin-can… Read more »

In our outreach workshops this month, we are traveling with junk mail and a blender to St. Patrick Center, the Center for Women in Transition, Lydia’s House, and Shalom House. We’re making… Read more »

February DIY Workshop: This month in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we brought self-care and self-love themed projects to our outreach partners at St. Patrick Center, the Center for Women… Read more »

January DIY Workshop: We kicked off a new year of outreach programs this month with St. Patrick Center, the Center for Women in Transition, Lydia’s House, and Shalom House. For our… Read more »

December DIY Workshop: Last month, women upcycled wool sweaters into fingerless arm warmers at St. Patrick Center and the Center for Women in Transition. We washed and dried old sweaters to… Read more »

      Perennial is a community workshop + store that transforms trash into treasure and teaches the St. Louis community how to do the same. Perennial’s programs teach do-it-yourself skills… Read more »

October DIY Workshop: We brought the art of book making to the women at Lydia’s House, St. Patrick Center, and the Center for Women in Transition this month. Each woman… Read more »

September DIY Workshop: Getting ready for the Fall weather, we are teaching the art of finger knitting in our outreach programs. The women at Lydia’s House and St. Patrick Center… Read more »

June DIY Workshop: We brought the tools down to Lydia’s House and St. Patrick Center this month to handcraft miniature flower presses. The women got to learn some woodworking basics… Read more »

April DIY Workshop: This month we brought our newly repaired fleet of sewing machines along to our programs with our partners. The women transformed old t-shirts into new bags that… Read more »

March DIY Workshop: We prepared for spring this March with the women at Lydia’s House and St. Patrick Center. Transforming wine bottles into self-watering planters, participants learned to cut and… Read more »

Hello folks of the Perennial-verse! This is Catherine, one of this summer’s handy interns, and I come baring the news of Soy Gel! It’s golden and thick, and like honey,… Read more »

Perennial is getting ready for another hot St. Louis summer! Cool off and keep the bugs away in style this summer. We’ve been working hard in the shop making paper… Read more »

Introducing our new summer interns Catherine and Nancy!   They go to the same school! They live in the same house! They carpool! This summer Perennial is fostering two art… Read more »