Looky Here

*Open Studio Sundays (1-4 p.m., drop-ins welcome!)
2026-06-07 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-14 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-21 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-28 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-05 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-12 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-19 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-26 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
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

Watercolor Painting for Beginners with Giselle Harrington (6/8-7/13, 6:00-9:00, $300)
2026-06-08 18:00 - 21:00
Watercolor Painting for Beginners

Cost: $300. Students can bring their own supplies (see supply list), or rent supplies for use during class by paying an additional $25 to the teacher at the beginning of the first class (cash, Venmo, check accepted).

Class description: This class teaches you the traditional methods of handling transparent watercolor in representational painting. You will learn how to control watercolor through washes and glazes, creating soft edges, using wet-in-wet techniques and using dry-brush. You will also learn how to work with the time constraints of the medium through a simplification of value shapes: a key to success in watercolor.

Giselle Harrington is a classically trained, award-winning watercolor painter. She holds a MFA from the School of Visual Arts where she studied illustration. Additionally, she studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League of New York. Her work is permanently housed at Simpatico Gallery in Charleston, SC, and she regularly shows her work in galleries and arts centers along the East Coast. She has 8 years of watercolor workshop experience.

Book Arts: Crossed Structure Binding with Emily Holt (June 9th, 6:00-8:00pm, $30)
2026-06-09 18:00 - 20:00
This book has soft cover exposed spine to show off the beautiful binding. The covers are made with cardstock and will be decorated with collaged papers. The final book makes a good notebook or travel sketchbook.

*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-11:50)
2026-06-13 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-06-20 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-06-27 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
*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: Paper Marbling 6/13 $10
2026-06-13 13:00 - 16:00 | Looky Here, 28 chapman street, greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
Book Arts Club is open to the public and free to Looky Here members! We meet every Second Saturday of the month. This month we’ll learn paper marbling with Hannah French! Bring your own paper or use our provided scrap paper to create colorful marbled patterns.

Book Arts: Carousel Books with Emily Holt (June 16th, 6:00-8:00pm, $30)
2026-06-16 18:00 - 20:00
3-D Collage in the Round: Carousel books are accordion-style books that open 360 degrees to form a standing, circular, or star-shaped display. Students will source magazines and/or colorful paper to create 7 unique scenes. Each page will have two layers of cut outs to reveal the scene. The accordions are sewn together using a pamphlet stitch and hard covers will be attached.
workshop: June 16 6-8pm $30

Writing on Writing: A Metafiction Working Group with Lena Rubin - Session 1 (June 17th & 24th, 6:00-9:00pm, $150)
2026-06-17 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, Renee Gladman’s My Lesbian Novel, and Zia Anger’s My First Film, we will embark on a delirious and cerebral metatextual journey that transcends the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, author and protagonist. Participants will come away with an increased understanding of metafiction as radical technique, as well as inspiration to apply it to their own art-making in the service of more capaciousness, experimentation, and play.
A note on scheduling: The group will meet during two separate sessions this summer. Each session will consist of two three-hour meetings. Diﬀerent material will be covered during each session (though themes and approach will remain continuous), so you are welcome to join us for either or both sessions.

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 (6/18) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-06-18 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

Release Party: Looky Here Magazine #4!!!
2026-06-20 19:00 - 21:00

*Collage Club (6/27) – 1:00-3:00 (Every final Saturday of the Month) $10 – free for members
2026-06-27 13:00 - 15:00
*Collage Club – 1:00-3:00 (Every final Saturday of the Month)
$10.00 (free for members!)
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. Tickets for this event are $10 each class. Let’s cut things up, glue them down, and create something beautiful!
*For Card to Culture Tickets, please email LookyHereGreenfield@gmail.com

Book Arts: Tunnel Books with Emily Holt (June 30th, 6:00-8:00pm, $30)
2026-06-30 18:00 - 20:00
3-D Collage Peepshow: Students will source collage imagery from magazine/books for the pages of their tunnel book. They will design their scene and cut holes in the panels to reveal the images on each page. The pages will be attached to accordion folded sides to create depth and make a sculptural form.

*Figure Drawing (7/2) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-07-02 18:00 - 20:00

*Figure Drawing (7/16) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-07-16 18:00 - 20:00

Pocket Gallery: Artist Trading Cards and Pocket Accordion Book with Emily Holt (July 19th, 6:00-8:00pm, $30)
2026-07-19 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.

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.

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, $150)
2026-07-29 18:00 - 21:00

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