Looky Here

art center, nonprofit, gallery, thrift store for art supplies, print shop and press, and workshop space for writing and art in Greenfield, MA.

Workshops

Clubhouse Workshops 🎨🧶✂️📝 (Free for members!)

📅 Check out the calendar for a full list of events and to register for a workshop!

💖 For Membership information, click here and join! 🫶🌟

📝 Save your spot early!
Our classes can fill up fast—or be canceled if not enough folks sign up. Don’t miss out! 💖

*Collage Valentines with Friends! (2/14 1:00-3:00)

*Make Our Merch! A free up cycling workshop! (2/22 1:00-3:00)

🎨 Figure Drawing – $15
✏️ Every other Thursday | 🕕 6:00–8:00 PM
Come draw a live model. BYO Materials, or shop our thrift store of art supplies.

🧶 Craft Club – $10
🧵 Every first Sunday of the month | 🕐 1:00–3:00 PM
Bring your current craft project or start something new with us!

✂️ Collage Club – $10
📎 Every last Saturday of the month | 🕐 1:00–3:00 PM
Paper scraps, glue sticks, and good vibes. Let’s collage!

☕ Morning Shift Writing Group – By Donation
📝 Every Saturday morning | 🕥 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
A cozy writing session to start your weekend off right.

📬 Submit to Journals – By Donation
📅 Meets periodically on Saturdays | 🕐 1:00–3:00 PM
Check the calendar! We meet to edit, format, and actually hit submit together. 💥

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Writing / Zine / Bookmaking Workshops!

Our writing workshops vary every month. Check the calendar for a full list!

  • Every Saturday Morning – Morning Shift (Community Writing Group 10:30-11:50 by donation)
  • Public Interest Zine Making – with Holly Muñoz and Randy Lesage Sunday 2/15 5:00-7:00 (pay what you can)
  • Public Interest Zine Making – with Holly Muñoz and Randy Lesage Tuesday 3/3 6:00-8:00 (pay what you can)
  • The Coptic Stitch – with Sarah Wisby 3 weeks 3/9- 6:00-8:00 $150 all materials included
  • Pile of Poems to Manuscript – with Zoe Tuck (six weeks, Sundays 3/15 – 4/19, 10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. $150)

Sarah’s Kingdom of Quilts with Sarah Guzzetti (Sundays 3/9 – 4/13 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. $180)

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Come to this class no matter your skill level to work on hand sewing.  This is the perfect time of year to cut up old clothing and turn it into something you can use to stay warm.  We will focus on making quilts or anything smaller that can be hand pieced.  The focus will not be on using patterns, but making your own.  It doesn’t matter if you have never threaded a needle–I will help you.  Come to have fun and experiment!!

Art with Annaleah (for kids ages 5-9!) 8 weeks on Tuesdays starting 1/20 3:45-4:45

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Tuesdays 3:45-4:45 January 20th-March 17th (no class 2/17)

Ages 5-9

Description:

In Art with Annaleah we will explore a variety of mediums such as drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Emphasizing both material experimentation and technical skill-building, this class encourages creative exploration through hands-on demonstrations and guided practice. We will do both short-term projects that last one class, while other projects will span multiple classes. Come ready to get messy, try new things, and expand your artistic toolkit!

Bio:

Annaleah Moon Gregoire is a mixed-media artist from Western Massachusetts. After graduating with a B.F.A. in sculpture from California College of the Arts in 2021, Annaleah dove into a career as a freelance artist in congruence with teaching art privately and in schools. She also has a small t-shirt company where her illustrations are turned into comfortable streetwear.

The 90 Day Novel – 7 Biweekly Sundays (90 days) 1/11 – 4/19 6:00-8:00 $200

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Write a novel in just 90 days!

In this book club–meets–writing workshop, we’ll use The 90-Day Novel by Alan Watt as our guide to draft a complete novel in just three months. Whether you’re starting with a fresh idea or returning to a long-lost story, this course will give you the structure, support, and accountability to see it through.

We’ll meet every other Thursday to discuss the book’s insights on the creative process, share progress, workshop ideas, and encourage each other through the challenges of long-form storytelling. Each session includes time for peer feedback.

No experience required—just a desire to write and a commitment to show up for your story.

Bring a copy of the novel, or let us know if you want to join a group order by emailing LookyHereGreenfield@gmail.com

We’ll wrap up with a celebratory class reading, where everyone is invited to share a chapter from their novel on Sunday April 19th (date subject to change – we will confirm as a group!)

No class 4/5

Public Interest Zine Making Workshop with Holly Muñoz (12/11 6:00-8:00 – Pay what you can!)

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“Public Interest” is a concern for the well-being of all people, rather than individuals, specific groups, or companies.

The world is messed up and scary. Information and education can help. Learn how to make zines. Get your message across to people. Help them understand why we all do better when we all do better.

Suggested donation of $15 for the two-hour workshop. No one turned away. Proceeds support Looky Here. All supplies included.

Make a Piano Hinge Book with Sarah Wisby (10/6 5:30-8:00 $60)

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Come to Looky Here’s third book arts offering with local poet and book artist Sarah Fran Wisby. The piano Hinge is a uniquely decorative non-adhesive binding using dowels or sticks to form the spine of your book. Bring your own handmade or decorative papers or use the materials provided. No previous bookmaking experience needed. Makes a great gift!

max 8 people

$60

5:30-8 pm

Monday October 6th

HOW TO MAKE STUFF UP: 6 week intro to Fiction with Carolyn Zaikowski (10/7-11/11 VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM)

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HOW TO MAKE STUFF UP: INTRODUCTION TO FICTION
6 Tuesdays, Oct 7th-Nov 11th
VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM with Carolyn Zaikowski

Come make stuff up with novelist and Easthampton, MA Poet Laureate Carolyn Zaikowski. Whether you’re just getting started or you’d like to get re-started in your fiction writing, you are welcome here.

We’ll get curious about key concepts in fiction storytelling, including the art of narrative, character, setting, and voice. Each week, we’ll do some craft study and spend time writing together with in-class generation exercises. We’ll chat about our work and ideas in small and large groups in the spirit of empowerment, encouragement, and solidarity, all toward the goal of finding our own voices and visions.

Each student will have the opportunity for formal verbal feedback from the group on up to 1000 words on a draft (or a section of a longer work), and to participate in a class literary reading during the final week.

Zoom links and assignments for the first class will be sent out a week before the class begins.

Find more about Carolyn below!

Carolyn Zaikowski, Author & Poet Laureate of Easthampton, MA
Newsletter:https://carolynzzz.substack.com/
-Web: www.carolynzaikowski.com

Intuitive Collage + Vision Mapping (April 6th 12:30-2:30 $15)

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Intuitive Collage + Vision Mapping

Ever wonder whether you have any control in life? Ever set intentions but have a hard time remembering them?

Now is the time to turn your visions into art that will last as long as you want it to.

Together we will create constellations/guides/divinations for 2025 and beyond.

Each participant is invited to tune into inner perception and capacity to dream.  

A variety of collage/assemblage and mark making materials will be provided. 

Participants may purchase additional materials from Looky Here.

April 6th 12:30-2:30 $15

No one will be turned away for lack of funds, email LookyHereGreenfield@gmail.com for more info

Comedy Workshop with Mo Schweiger (6 Mondays 11/4-12/9 6:00-8:00)

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This six session comedy workshop is designed to make performing stand-up comedy less daunting!

Over six weeks, we will alternate between “content” workshop sessions and open mic workshop sessions. In “content” sessions, we will watch comedy sets by pros and discuss what makes them great. We will break down their jokes, their stage personas, and the structures of their sets and learn from them what works and doesn’t.

Then, on open mic weeks, we’ll take our skills to the mic!

This workshop is specifically meant for people underrepresented in traditional comedy spaces, though all are welcome. No experience necessary/all levels of experience welcome!

$150

Entropy Workshop with L. Scully (Tuesday 11/12 6:00-8:00)

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ENTROPY is an in person, generative writing workshop hosted by L Scully. The two hour class aims to produce the beginnings of 2+ new pieces of writing based on original prompts provided live and in session. We will discuss our artistic interpretations of ENTROPY as a theme in reference to our personal and collective creative practices, as well as sharing work by writers who add to our understanding of Disorder as a concept. This class is designed to be cross-genre and is open to new and seasoned writers alike.

We will brainstorm, create, discuss, and share work in a supportive and conversational setting. 

We are living in a conundrum of degradation. our bodies age, the State is falling, disorder(s) run rampant in our minds. God feels random and chaos feels inevitable. There is no choice but to write toward uncertainty. What does the end of the world look like to you as an artist? What does the future look like for writers whose worlds have already ended? Cope, world-build, freak out, investigate together.

(Tues, Nov. 12th, 6-8pm)

Collage Club! – Last Saturday of every month from 1:00-3:00

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The Collage Club is where you can play, experiment, and learn the fundamentals of creating a collage! No experience is necessary to participate and open to all ages!  All collage materials will be provided or you can bring your own. We will meet from 1-3 pm on every final Saturday of the month! Tickets for this event are $10 each class. Let’s cut things up, glue them down, and create something beautiful! 

From Comb to Candle- How to Make Hand Dipped Beeswax Candles (9/21-12:30-3:00 with Ang Roell)

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In this class you will learn how bees make beeswax and how humans have worked with beeswax over millennia.  Then you will learn how to render beeswax for candle making and hand dip candles from beeswax.  You’ll take home a set of two hand dipped candles for your own ritual needs.

All skill levels welcome, no candle making experience is necessary.  Must be able to sit for prolonged periods (45 min) and stand periodically for candle dipping.  All materials provided.

Saturday 9/21 12:30-3:00

$38 per person