In this workshop, you’ll look at things and paint! We’ll take it from the beginning and get really comfortable pushing paint around and mixing different values. We’ll use acrylics and cover ideas and techniques that can be used with any kind of paint. Materials are included! But definitely bring heavy paper, cardboard, or canvas board […]
This writing circle for queer-identified people focuses on generating new work of any genre. We will write and revise in community through the 100s method popularized by feminist scholars like Lauren Berlant and Dr. Kim Tall Bear. The 100s asks each participant to write 100 words a day on an assigned day of the week. […]
Complete a full size quilt in just 6 weeks! Make it by hand, make your own patterns, DO IT YOUR WAY! There will be plenty of materials on hand but feel free to bring your own fabrics, be it silk or old socks. Don't worry if you don't know how to sew well-- we'll keep […]
We will talk in Spanish about Gaudi and make a Gaudi inspired piece! In Spanish through art, we spend 30 minutes discussing a Spanish speaking artist or an art form from a hispanic country (all in Spanish of course) and then we spend the remainder of class making art in a similar style to what […]
For the first film in the monthly screening series on Art Communes, we will be watching “Free Spirits, the incredible true story of the Renaissance Community commune, one of the largest, most controversial intentional communities of the 1960s and 70s, and its flamboyant founder, Michael Metelica Rapunzel. The Renaissance Community settled in Turners Falls and […]
Join us for a generative poetry workshop this January. We'll play with forms, use sizzling hot poems as jumping-off points, and get into our bodies in order to flex our voices, all in a warmly supportive space. Poets of all levels are welcome, just bring a way to write and your enthusiasm for words--what they […]
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In this free workshop, we will be learning different methods of up-cycling clothing to create a line of Looky Here Looks! All items made in this workshop will be for sale at the shop.