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!

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     And browse the online auction to begin bidding!                        

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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!