Keller | Roanoke | Northeast Fort Worth

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BY HEATHER MCCULLOUGH

Salt and Light Collective owner Marissa Bryson partners with bakers and artists to host creative arts classes in Keller. “[I] started really seeking out other creatives in the area to come join me in oering their gifts and talents in classes,” Bryson said. The name of the business stems from Bryson’s Christian faith and that the Bible asks people to be salt to the earth and light to the world. “The collective part of it is bringing others from the community into this space to share what they know and their talents and skills,” she said. What they oer Salt and Light Collective oers a variety of creative classes for children and adults. “[I] started really seeking out other creatives in the area to come join me in oering their gifts and talents in classes,” Bryson said. She also does date nights, where couples can learn how to make specialty foods, like tamales, paint portraits of one another or work on a terrarium project. The class always has a food component, even when the activity isn’t food-re- lated, she said. Couples can purchase one ticket for both of them. Bryson also hosts date nights, where couples can make tamales, terrariums or paint pictures. “It doesn’t have to be your signicant other,” Bryson said. “You can invite a friend to come to a date night. You can invite your teen and [have a] parent-teen date night.” Bryson oers classes for children to learn how to cook. She hosts after-school classes for children to make supper. She also does multi-class options for children to learn kitchen skills. “The mindset for these classes are building life skills, kitchen condence and getting them famil- iar with working in a home kitchen,” Bryson said. How we got here Bryson said she learned how to make tamales with her mother. “I would carve out a couple of days every holiday season to spend with my mom and learn the ins and outs [of tamale-making],” she said. It became a tradition for Bryson to have a tama- le-making class inside her home and host summer camps for children to learn how to cook. “I love teaching in my home, but I always Salt and Light Collective oers cooking, creative classes in Keller

The name of the business reects Bryson’s belief that the Bible calls people to be salt to the earth and light to the world.

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Salt and Light Collective oers date nights, where couples can learn how to make tamales, paint pictures of one another or make terrariums.

Bryson is looking to expand the classes she oers, while keeping her staple tamale and children’s cooking classes, she said.

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wanted to have a designated space to be able to oer classes,” she said. The studio opened March 2024. Looking ahead Bryson is looking to expand the classes she oers, she said. She wants to add parent-and-me classes, hand-lettering, calligraphy, knitting, crocheting, and classes geared toward fathers and sons.

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138 Olive St., Keller www.saltandlight-collective.com

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