Looky Here

Karaoke Clothing Swap (7:00pm)
2026-06-12 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York)
Bring clothes to swap for spring! Try them on and sing your favorite tune –or dance in all your new outfits!
7:00pm
$10 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds!)

*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
*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.

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

Watercolor Painting for Beginners with Giselle Harrington (6/15-7/20, 6:00-9:00, $300)
2026-06-15 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: 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

*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!!! (1:00pm)
2026-06-20 13:00 - 15:00
with a reading, music, & a collaborative art station!

Public Interest Zine Making (6/23, 6:00-8:00pm, by donation)
2026-06-23 18:00 - 20:00
“Public interest” is a concern for the well-being of all people, rather than individuals, specific groups, or companies. Learn how to make and share zines with messages of community and growth. We all do better when we all do better.
Pay what you want. All supplies provided.

*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.

(Date changed to 7/1) In-Between: Writing and Illuminating Your Way Home
2026-07-01 18:00 - 20:00
Who am I? Where do I belong? For many people, these are lifelong questions they struggle to answer. Join us in this workshop as we explore this internal struggle through writing exercises and art activities. (No writing or drawing experience is necessary). Participants will be provided with blank journals and other materials to create visual clues and guides for themselves.

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

Some Ppl I Love: A Variety Show!
2026-07-03 19:00 - 21:00
featuring the literary/ performance talents of:
L Scully
Zac Smith
Madison Murray
Mayah Monet Lovell
& U???
Sign up to read!
We want you to share your work, party with us, or make a new friend. all are welcome to sign up for a five minute performance time slot until we run out of space. local pals, touring acts, strange bedfellows galore
suggested performance genres: readings, kissings, puppetry, milking, interpretive dance, ventriloquism, hidden talents, music, hypnosis, live toothbrushing, tarot, balloon animals or on the spot marriage proposals

Space Kites with Charles Thompson & Han-Ray Jahn
2026-07-05 12:00 - 17:00
Spend a day with Charles Thompson and Han-Ray Jahn building kites! Using greenwoodworking techniques and aluminized plastic sheets (and/or paper, cloth, tissue, consumer-salvage), we’ll create windborne objects to cross space and time. With whimsy, rudimentary physics, and a rejoining of scattered materials can we pierce the firmament?

THE UNIVERSE IS VAST, AND KITES CAN SPAN IT.

Recycled Art: A 3 part workshop with Lizzie Diamond (7/8-7/22, 6-8pm) $75
2026-07-08 18:00 - 20:00
A workshop focused on two goals, making art out of non traditional materials in the style of Robert Rauschenberg, & making art out of recycling found objects that others might consider trash & making something new. Rather than adding to consumer culture by purchasing art materials, we will aim to make something new from objects that would otherwise end up in garbage bags. And rather than being bound by the constraints of what traditional art is supposed to by, we will have fun thinking outside the box. I will provide materials, & there will also be assignments based on collecting materials without purchasing them.

Riso Botanical Workshop (7/9/26)
2026-07-09 18:00 - 20:00
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.

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!

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

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.
