As Tuwaiq Sculpture 2025 redefined the city’s public spaces with art, the program’s Community Workshops invited residents and visitors to explore their own creativity. Designed to engage participants from all ages and backgrounds, the workshops allowed participants of all ages to gather and shape, paint, sculpt, and dream.

Thoughtfully curated to mirror the spirit of Tuwaiq Sculpture 2025, they turned the act of making art into a shared adventure – one that connected the city’s vibrant creative community with anyone willing to pick up a brush, a piece of clay, or even a compass.

Reimagining the urban landscape through architectural cubism
Certain workshops invited participants to see the familiar through a new lens. In “Architectural Cubism in Painting,” Khaled Albakheet showed how to break down familiar cityscapes into layered geometric compositions, creating striking new perspectives. The everyday skyline of Riyadh was broken down into bold planes, fractured perspectives, and layered geometries. Children and adults alike found themselves mapping the city unexpectedly – transforming towers, windows, and minarets into abstract cityscapes bursting with color and energy.

Other sessions allowed participants to build something with their hands in collaboration with their neighbors. In “Community as Canvas,” Mohammed Alfaraj encouraged strangers to paint side-by-side, fusing hundreds of brushstrokes into a single sweeping mural. Here, collaboration replaced solitary creation. Each participant’s mark became part of a larger, breathing artwork – an expression of what it means to build a city not just of structures, but of stories.

For “Intergenerational Art,” Ghada Almalki shifted the focus to family, memory, and the beauty of shared hands shaping shared visions. Grandparents and grandchildren, parents and children, strangers across generations sat together, coaxing sculptures from clay. In each twist of the material was a dialogue between past and future, a quiet reminder that creativity knows no age and thrives when generations meet at the same table.

While some workshops focused on community, others encouraged inward reflection. During “Drawing in Islamic Geometric Patterns,” Bassem Zawdeh invited participants into the meditative world of traditional design, where a simple compass and ruler could unlock intricate universes of symmetry and precision. Carefully tracing a perfect star or constructing a rosette offered a rare moment of stillness and a connection to centuries of artistic heritage. For many, it was a humbling experience. A return to slower, more intentional creation in an age of instant results.Though seasoned artists chiseled their masterpieces, throughout every session, there was a powerful realization. Creativity isn’t a skill reserved for a few, it belongs to each and every one of us. It’s a language we all speak, taking different forms from brushstrokes, to patterns or clay. Creativity transcends borders, invites collaboration, and roots itself in both tradition and imagination.

The Tuwaiq Sculpture 2025 Community Workshops left behind more than artworks, they planted seeds. Seeds of connection, of discovery, of pride in a Riyadh that continues to define itself not just by what it builds, but by whatever it dares to dream.