Looky Here

Riso Botanical Workshop (7/9/26)
2026-07-09 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Learn to print and layer colors on Looky Here’s Risograph printer in this 2 hour workshop! Students will collaboratively make a series of 20 posters by scanning leaves and flowers. All materials provided, though feel free to bring your own plant matter.

*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-11:50)
2026-07-11 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-07-18 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-07-25 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-08-01 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-08-08 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-08-15 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-08-22 10:30 - 11:50
*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-11:50)
Want to write but having trouble getting started? Or tired of writing alone into the void? Join us for a drop-in writing space, open to all and free (donations to Looky Here for letting us use the space are encouraged). We will say hello to each other, share a prompt or brief piece to get us going, but mostly we will just write together. This is not a workshopping group or an open mic, come with your notebook or laptop and get ready to get some words on the page in good company.
FREE!
* Participates in Card to Culture

Book Arts Club: Franklin County Field Guide (7/11 1-4pm $10)
2026-07-11 13:00 - 16:00
This Risograph Printed book will feature Franklin County sites, history, and lore! Everyone in the group with contribute one (two color) page and receive one complimentary copy of the book.
The rest will be for sale in the shop!

*Open Studio Sundays (1-4 p.m., drop-ins welcome!)
2026-07-12 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-19 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-26 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-08-02 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-08-09 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-08-16 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-08-23 13:00 - 16:00
CRAFT
MEND
SEW
DRAW
WRITE
use the space from 1:00-4:00 p.m.
drop-ins welcome!
Bring any project you like. We will set you up with a large table. You can use our sewing machines, glue guns, and whatever other resources we have! $10 – free for members

Pocket Gallery: Artist Trading Cards and Pocket Accordion Book with Emily Holt (July 14th, 6:00-8:00pm, $30)
2026-07-14 18:00 - 20:00
Students will gather and make a trading card for each participant in the workshop, including one for themselves. The materials will include a playing card as the base, magazine and paint. While cards are drying, students will make a simple pocket accordion book to hold each card. At the end of the workshop students will trade with each other and leave with a pocket gallery book.

*Figure Drawing (7/16) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-07-16 18:00 - 20:00
BYO materials! Easel and drawing horses provided. Figure Drawing at Looky Here is an uninstructed drawing session with a nude model. $15 per session, running 6-8pm on every other Thursday evening.
*Participates in Card to Culture

THE MOST WUTHERING HEIGHTS DAY EVER
2026-07-18 17:00 - 21:00
Join us at Energy Park for the 5th annual gathering to perform Kate Bush’s iconic Wuthering Heights dance.
Learn the dance with us from 5-6pm, the dance will take place at 6:15pm.
There will be an after party at Looky Here (28 Chapman) at 7pm with pizza, refreshments, and Kate Bush themed karaoke with DJ Kouch!
As always, WEAR RED!

Book Arts: Secret Belgium Binding with Emily Holt (July 21st, 6:00-8:00pm, $30)
2026-07-21 18:00 - 20:00
Shh! It’s a Secret! This wonderful hard cover book opens flat and makes a great journal or sketch book. Students will design their own covers using decorative paper, book cloth or collage.

Public Interest Postal Service Zine making Workshop (7/23)
2026-07-23 18:00 - 20:00
“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.

Riso Mini Zine workshop! (7/24/26)
2026-07-24 17:00 - 20:00
Risograph Zine Workshop! 5:00-8:00 $65
Make 20 copies of your own mini zine with two layers on the risograph!

Gum Printing with Julia Zanes at her Marlboro, VT home! (2 Day workshop)
2026-07-25 10:00 - 14:00
Gum Printing was invented in the earliest days of photography.
I learned gum printing while I was in art school and taught it to my mother, who was a photographer, and who mastered the sometimes arduous technique. We will look at her work, and at examples in books.
Participants will make digital negatives from images of their choice, or use what I have available here. The process involves coating printmaking paper with a mixture of watercolor pigment, gum arabic , and a dichromate (the light sensitive element). After drying , the paper/negative contact is exposed in the sun and developed outside in water. The depth and painterliness is intensified by layering. Because the results are watercolor on printmaking paper it is easy to work into the image with more watercolor or colored pencil, etc. ( We will not do color separation with the negatives, but this is a possibility – resulting in a color image with the spirit of technicolor.)
Class will meet 10am-2pm Saturday July 25th and Sunday July 26th and is weather dependent.
The address will be disclosed upon ticket purchase!

Playwriting/Performance Workshop: Playing Utopia with Jeremy Geragotelis (six weeks, 7/26-8/30, 6-8pm, $150)
2026-07-26 18:00 - 20:00
Playing Utopia: Future Livenesses and Political Possibility
Time-based art is particularly well suited to teach its audience that other ways to live, to survive, to revolt are possible. It’s hard to deny a future when it’s right there in front of you. We will spend this workshop writing new pieces of theater and performance that imagine a more livable life for more people. How can a play or performance be a how-to guide in not just imagining but enacting(!) utopia?
We’ll read excerpts from playwrights, poets, and theorists: B. Brecht, J. S. Drury, M. Blitzstein, S. Treadwell, C. Churchill, T. Hearne, Sophocles, A. Washburn, F. Jameson, J. E. Muñoz.
This six-week workshop is for anyone looking to experiment in playwriting and performance-writing—no previous experience in these forms is necessary. Participants will have time to both write and share their work. The class will end with some form of culminating performance!

Writing on Writing: A Metafiction Working Group with Lena Rubin - Session 2 (July 29th & August 5th, 6:00-9:00pm, $100)
2026-07-29 18:00 - 21:00
In this experimental working group, we will study and play with the technique of metafiction — tentatively defined here as “writing on writing.” As we engage with metafictional texts such as Anna Moschovakis’ Eleanor, or The Rejection of the Progress of Love, Hélène Cixous’s FirstDays of the Year, Renee Gladman’s My Lesbian Novel, and Zia Anger’s My First Film, we will embark on a metatextual journey, both soulful and cerebral, transgressing the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, author and protagonist. Though our time together will include group discussion & reading together, you should also expect to generate a good deal of your own work! Participants will come away with an increased understanding of metafiction as radical technique, as well as new ways to approach their own art-making in service of more capaciousness, experimentation, and play. All are welcome: poets, readers, writers, artists, thinkers.

Lena Rubin is a writer, artist, and teacher based in Florence, MA. Lena’s work has been supported by the Outer Cape Artists in Residence Consortium, recognized with a nomination to the Best New Poets anthology in 2024, and published in Little Mirror, Second Factory, Afternoon Visitor, and elsewhere. Lena will complete an MFA in Prose Writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as of May 2026. More at lenarubin.tumblr.com.

*Figure Drawing (7/30) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-07-30 18:00 - 20:00

Closing Reception for Emily Holt & Chris Davis
2026-07-31 17:00 - 20:00

*Figure Drawing (8/13) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-08-13 18:00 - 20:00

John Toot and the Great Metastization: The Puppet Show
2026-08-19 19:00 - 20:30

*Figure Drawing (8/27) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-08-27 18:00 - 20:00
