Now announcing our JUNE RESIDENTS!!!

Arantza Peña Popo (Illustrator & Cartoonist) 

and 

Levi Diamond (Collage & Found Object Artist)

Arantza and Levi will use materials from our thrift store of art supplies and our Risograph printer to create new work for the month of June.

We’ll celebrate their work with a gallery show  on Friday, June 27th from 5:00-8:00pm!

They will be around during open hours Wednesday-Friday 12:00-5:00, so come say hello, plus! Levi is hosting a workshop called “Collage Games” on June 18th from 6:00-8:00. sign up on our calendar.

We are proud to offer the Card to Culture program, the most comprehensive effort of its kind in the nation to open doors to arts and culture experiences for low-income families, in collaboration with Mass Cultural Council, the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program and the Massachusetts Health Connector.

See the full list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC and ConnectorCare discounts.

HOW IT WORKS:

EBT, WIC and ConnectorCare cardholders may attend Looky Here CLUB workshops for free. These include Figure Drawing, Still Life Social Club, Collage Club, and upcoming workshops. All Card to Culture workshops are noted with an * asterisk on our online calendar.

Ticket availability may be limited, so please email LookyHereGreenfield@gmail.com in advance to make sure Card to Culture tickets are still available. Please do not show up to an event without confirming space availability.

A maximum of two tickets per family may be purchased.

Get your copy of “Nickel Coin Queen” while they last!

Sierra Dickey is our very first winner of the Looky Here Magazine Short Story Contest! You can read her story, “Stick in the Mud” in Looky Here Magazine: Issue 3 at our RELEASE SOIRÉE at noon on Saturday 12/7 at Looky Here!

Sierra Dickey is a writer, educator, and organizer living in Great Falls. Her reporting and creative works have been published in Prism Reports, Shadowproof, Talk Poverty, Modern Farmer, Adroit Journal, Barrelhouse, and more. Sierra’s research interests include queer, material, and third world feminisms, the environmental humanities, and police and prison abolition. Sierra has taught writing and journalism at the Northfield Mount Hermon School, the Community College of Vermont, and Looky Here. She is presently at work on a book about new women’s prison projects in New England. Gemini sun, Taurus rising.

photo credit: Alexis Hott 

2024 Looky Here Short Story Finalists:

Easton Smith – “Van Dyke”

Easton Smith’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, The Sonora Review, The Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his partner, his friends, and three beautiful chickens.

Mo Schweiger – “The Cat and the Suitcase”

Mo Schweiger is a writer and comedian based in Western Mass. They are the co-creator of Ha Sof Ba (The End is Near) satire magazine, half of the brain behind Mandy Mudballs, The Montague Reporter’s premiere satire love columnist, a co-producer of Far Out! Comedy Festival, and a lover of collaboration, clearly. Mo is currently working on an absurdist transgender screenplay titled Baker’s Boy and programming a storytelling theater as part of A Happening: Leviathan, Eggtooth Productions’ immersive multi-arts festival.

Rebecca Rideout – “Missing Merle”

Soaking in nature textures, staring at walls, and moving her bones are just a few passions Becca has when not making documentary films, doing paid work for capitalism, or parenting her skin and her fur baby. Other interests include trying to grow things and make plant medicine, thinking about parallel dimensions, and talking about ghosts.

when you are here installs on October 9th. Come on in and see these beautiful paintings!

Gallery Opening Reception – 10/25 5:00-8:00pm

Gallery Closing – 12/6 5:00-8:00pm (last chance!)

ART OPENING/BEER RELEASE/TRIVIA! – On October 16th at 8:00 we will hang a portion of our available artworks at the People’s Pint and host a celebration of our new “Looky Beer” collaboration with the restaurant. Join us for TRVIA with prizes!! Plus, every pour of “Looky Beer,” earns Looky Here $1!!!

View the auction and donate now!

This year’s annual fundraising gala will be a Victorian Saloon at The People’s Pint! A selection of donated art will hang for 2 months and will be auctioned to help us reach our goal of $50,000 by the end of 2024. Many of the donated items will not be on view at The Pint, but will be up for auction online only. Be sure to browse the whole collection! The online auction will open on October 16th at 4pm. At the same time and date, we will host a celebration of our new “Looky Beer” collaboration with the People’s Pint at the restaurant. We will hold a trivia contest with prizes, drink our “Looky Beer”, which earns Looky Here $1 per pour, and will begin bidding on the displayed and online works! The auction will close at 10:30pm on the night of our Victorian Saloon Gala at the People’s Pint, December 14th, 2024. The event will have Piano Bar Karaoke, raffles, and special in-person live auctions. You won’t want to miss it, but need not be present to win!

                                   !DONATE NOW!

     And browse the online auction to begin bidding!                        

                                          Its easy!

This year, our fundraising goal is $50,000. Looky Here is a non-profit art space founded by artists in Greenfield, MA in 2017. We provide the community with affordable used art supplies, art workshops, exhibition space and access to our Risograph printer, which we use to produce an ever-growing collection of cards, books and prints from local artists. Our funding comes in the form of donations, ticket sales, printing revenue, merchandise sales and the occasional local grant.

Since opening in 2017, we have: hosted over 1,250 workshops, curated over 40 gallery shows, trained over 100 people in Riso printing, organized over 10 community festivals, and rehomed countless boxes of art supplies. Looky Here has been largely volunteer-run since it’s inception. The funding needed to sustain the space would ideally come from large grants, however, we need at least $50,000 to become applicable for these larger capacity grants. With more funding, we would be able to pay our managing directors a minimum wage, hire a larger team, provide more robust scholarships for workshops, offer more free events, upgrade out facilities, host visiting artists and sustain our mission of affordable arts for all!

$500 1st place prize + publication in our 2025 winter issue

All submissions considered for publication. Send us your best short story, 3,000 word maximum – no minimum, double spaced,12 point font, using Times New Roman in .DOC, .DOCX, or a PDF (Google Docs not accepted) along with a $20 submission fee (payable by Venmo or Paypal) to LookyHereGreenfield@gmail.com with the subject line: SHORT STORY CONTEST! Please include a screenshot of your submission fee in your email with a brief cover letter and a bio by AUGUST 1st!

General Submissions also open for all writing and art! Get more info here -> Looky Here Magazine!

FRIDAY! March 22nd from 7:00 – 9:00

Music by elie mcafee-hahn

Reading by Chris Weisman

Be first in line to see Chris’s latest book of poems printed by Hannah Brookman on the risograph at Looky!

Reserve your copy here!

7:00 – Shea Mowat / 8:00 Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth Tribute Band / 9:00 Loculus Collective

9:30 LIVE AUCTION! (in-person only goods and prizes)

10:00 – All auction/raffle winners announced, including a PRIZE for best Masquerade Costume!

Begin online bidding now!

Our auction is live! Place your bids! Make an account at 32auctions.com and place all of your bids online. It’s free and easy!

Pre-sale tickets – $15 (buy yours here – Presale ends Friday, 12/15 at midnight!)

Get Tickets Here!

Our very first magazine is arriving on Saturday, October 14th!

Join our Magazine Release and Reading with a Pie Bar!

Pie and drinks served from 11:00-2:00 (or until we sell out!)

Magazine -$15

Slice of Pie $8

Drinks $5-12

Reading $10 suggested donation

$25 package ticket!
n.o.t.a.f.l.o.f.

Reading starts at noon!

Sarah Wisby / Catherine Bresner / Kat Freeman / David Russell / Casper Lucia / Vanessa Brewster and more TBA!

LOOKY HERE is a volunteer supported non-profit art space located at 28 Chapman street in Greenfield, MA. We offer workshops, host gallery shows, concerts and film screenings, offer Risograph printing services and collect donated art supplies for affordable resale. We are volunteer run and donation supported. You can find our workshop and event calendar, printing services and more at our website: lookyheregreenfield.com, our instagram @L00ky.here and here, on facebook. You can contact us at lookyheregreenfield@gmail.com or meet us at HOPE AND OLIVE Monday March 2nd 5-7:30pm for Hope & Olive’s free soup and games night, which is a monthly benefit held the first Monday of each month. All are welcome to come and enjoy a free buffet of soup and breads, grab a drink from the bar and sit down with friends to play games, draw, drink and shop from the Looky Here merchandise and artist consignment booth. All of the donations, sales and tips will go to support Looky Here and local artists!
Hope & Olive is an everyday-special restaurant located at 44 Hope Street in Greenfield, MA.
See you there!