Looky Here

Greenfield Gallery Walk: Buoyant Heart Opening Reception
2024-08-30 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Opening Reception for Buoyant Heart Gallery Show!

Still Life Social Club 8/29
2024-08-29 18:00 - 20:00
Still Life Social Club – biweekly on Thursdays 6-8pm. Bring drawing or painting supplies, a drink or a snack, a playlist or a good story and an item to add to the still life ! $10 tickets online 🎨✏️💐🏺🧃🍿🎶🧸📚

Botanical Posters Risograph Workshop! 6:00-8:00 $60
2024-08-28 18:00 - 20:00
Scan leaves and flowers to make a run of 20 11″x17″ multicolored posters on the risograph!

Figure Drawing 8/22
2024-08-22 18:00 - 20:00
Figure drawing at Looky Here is an uninstructed drawing session with a nude model.
Easels and drawing horses are provided but please bring your own materials.

(CANCALLED) Falling in Love with Community: A Conversation Party
2024-08-16 18:00 - 20:00
Boooo,we had to cancel this event, but we will reschedule for October!

Still Life Social Club 8/15
2024-08-15 18:00 - 20:00

Riso Zines! 8/10 12:00-3:00
2024-08-10 12:00 - 15:00
Make a series of 20 (2 color) Risograph printed zines!

Figure Drawing 8/8/24
2024-08-08 18:00 - 20:00

Drawing in Color with Hannah Brookman
2024-08-07 18:00 - 20:00
A three week workshop exploring some different ways to use and think about color in drawing. Hannah Brookman will lead students in drawing a still life, a figure and a landscape using a variety of different coloring techniques. This class is open to any and all abilities of artists and ages. The workshop will provide all drawing materials, though students are welcome to bring any materials of their own. We will meet the first three Wednesday evenings in August, the 7th, 14th and 21st from 6-8pm. See Hannah’s Website for examples of her use of color!

Strange Page: Experimental Writing Workshop with Vanessa Brewster (8 Tuesdays: starting 8/6 from 6:00-8:00)
2024-08-06 18:00 - 20:00
The Strange Page is an 8 week writing workshop open to all writing styles, (poetry, fiction, CNF, experimental, etc!) but it must be kept under one page! Working with a new prompt each week, class time will be divided evenly to critique and discuss everyone’s writing. This generative writing workshop is open to adults and mature teens with any level of writing experience. Limited to 12 students.

Runs from August 6th – October 1st (no class on 9/10 and a class reading date TBD)

About the teacher: Vanessa Brewster is a writer, musician and educator living in Greenfield. She is a cofounder and editor of Looky Here Magazine and her book of short stories, Social Studies, and her diary, Vanessa age 9, are both forthcoming this summer.

Therapy (VIRTUAL Writing Workshop) with L Scully (1:00-3:00)
2024-08-03 13:00 - 15:00
THERAPY with L Scully

THERAPY is a generative virtual workshop. Working within hybrid confessional forms to create our own imperfect texts, this is a space to share/process/laugh at our own vulnerability and earnestly challenge the forces of the world which seek to medicate us. Following a prompt-based structure, writers will participate in a group peer support experience to share in life and literature.

Still Life Social Club
2024-08-01 18:00 - 20:00

Collage Club!
2024-07-27 13:00 - 15:00
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!

Greenfield Arts Walk : "On Our Way" by Chelsea Granger - Closing Reception
2024-07-26 17:00 - 20:00
On Our Way, New Work by Chelsea Granger
I began work for this series by looking at specific local endangered species, wanting to honor and make visible my most local neighbors who are experiencing loss of their habitat, community, place, what we all stand to lose within a rapidly changing climate. As I moved deeper into making the series, the idea of endangerment shapeshifted into more abstract ideas about what is disappearing or becoming invisible to us and what we find within that loss. I wanted to make beauty for beauty’s sake within the enormous overwhelm of what is on a precipice of disappearing. I wanted to sing a praise song with my work.
How can we live honoring what is dying? How do we lift up what we love, regardless of whether it will survive or not? In what ways can we celebrate what is fleeting and be with what is here while it is here?
How do we sing a song to the butterfly, praise the sun, and say thank you to a flower?
Where do we as people land in all of that unknown disappearing?
My practice focuses on painting as a celebration, painting as a prayer. I hope that this work brings light to what we have/what we stand to lose and the potential for us to make rituals of thanks to it all.

Chelsea Granger is a multidisciplinary artist. Painting, drawing, illustration, murals, and tattoos are the foundation of her practice. She recently self-published a zine about death and grief titled So Many Ways to Draw a Ghost. After the death of her mom as well as a dear friend, she started seeing her art as a way to sing up life, with the hope that her art can act as a doorway to create conversations about death and grief. Chelsea’s art is of the everyday, inspired by the overlap of earth/spirit dimensions, and woods as church. She is interested in painting as medicine, painting as a portal, painting as a spell. Her work has been exhibited across the Northeast, and her murals exist across New England.

Figure Drawing 7/25/24
2024-07-25 18:00 - 20:00

Book Binding and Prixel Printing Workshop with Lisa Hersey (6:00-8:00 - $48)
2024-07-24 18:00 - 20:00
In this class we will use a PRIXEL press to stamp our book covers and learn to sew our own books. You will learn how to sew a three-hole pamphlet book and can use that knowledge to recreate more journals at home. Use your journal to document your garden’s growth, plants you want to add to your garden next year, the growing garden to-do list, or use it to doodle! All skill levels welcome, no printing or binding experience necessary. Must be able to thread and handle a needle. All materials and bookbinding tools provided.

Paper Pulp Workshop (12:00-3:00pm)
2024-07-20 18:00
WORKING WITH RECYCLED PAPER PULP
with Amanda Petrovato
Looky Here
28 Chapman St. Greenfield, MA
Noon-3. $30
Saturday, July 20
Learn how to recycle paper into a versatile low/no cost art making material in this workshop with paper pulp experimenter and artist Amanda Petrovato. All materials and tools will be provided, including an instruction booklet to take home.

Still Life Social Club 7/18 - $10
2024-07-18 18:00 - 20:00

DEAR DIARY: Open Mic and Book Release
2024-07-17 18:00 - 20:30
DEAR DIARY: Open Mic and Book Release of Vanessa B. age 9, order your copy HERE!
Bring your diary to read from if you dare!
Doors at 6!
$10 suggested donation!

Design and Print Stationary on the Riso!
2024-07-13 12:00 - 15:00
Design and print a set of stationary and envelopes on the risograph!
All materials included!
Saturday, July 13th from 12:00-3:00pm!

Music! Isaac Fosl-van Wyke, Nicolas Panken, Bella Levavi
2024-07-12 19:00 - 21:00
Another music on the calendar! This one is for Friday July 12th and will feature Isaac Fosl-van Wyke, a songwriter and puppeteer based in Louisville, Kentucky. His whimsical poetry is haunted by ghosts both past and present. Biting cultural critique resides in mythical, rhyme-heavy storytelling, under harmonic layers from outstanding Kentucky musicians (Joan Shelley, Nathan Salsburg, Lacey Guthrie, Anna Krippenstapel, and more). All held together by Isaac’s singular voice, the songs quiver with anxiety and hope while confronting crises of cultural genocide, climate change, and industrial capitalism. We will also have music from Nicolas Panken, formerly of the band spirit family reunion, and a special something from Bella Levavi. Doors are at 7 and show costs $10!

Reflective Drawing (a 3 week series 10:00am-12:00pm with Caroline James)
2024-07-12 10:00 - 12:00
Reflective Drawing: Self Exploration Through Observational Drawing
In this workshop, we will curate our own scene for observational drawing, both to improve our technical drawing skills, and to create space within to explore our creativity!
We will spend three weeks exploring introspective drawing through gesture and style, personalized still-life, and costumed self-portraits.
3 Fridays from 10:00-12:00 starting August 2nd.
We will offer a second installment of the workshop in August that will be more portrait based!
We hope to see you there!

Figure Drawing 7/11/24
2024-07-11 18:00 - 20:00

MUSIC! AT and the Fantasy Suites, Bryan Gillig, and Vanessa Brewster
2024-07-10 18:00 - 20:30
Two 6 piece bands and a rockin solo act at Looky Here, Wednesday 7/10.
$10-20 sliding scale!
Doors at 6:00
Show at 7:00

Rouge Readings Returns
2024-06-29 19:00 - 22:00
Rouge Readings Returns to Looky Here!
Elle Longpre
Lily Bix-Daw
Midge Hartshorn
Susan Patterson
7pm
$10 suggested donation

Collage club!
2024-06-29 13:00 - 15:00
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!

Bio: Bella LaMontagne is an analog collage artist based in Shelburne Falls Massachusetts. She is a Finalist in the 9th edition of the Boynes Artist Award: Young Artist Category. Her work has been published in multiple publications including, the Red Ogre Review, the Indianapolis Review, the Santa Clara Review, and Photosynthesis Magazine . Bella has exhibited her work both regionally and internationally. In March of 2023 Bella was an artist in residence, hosted by the Kolaj Institute, at the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville Tennessee where she explored the role of folklore within the context of collage.

Greenfield Arts Walk: On Our Way by Chelsea Granger with a reading from her book!
2024-06-28 17:00 - 20:00

Figure Drawing 6/27/24
2024-06-27 18:00 - 20:00

Still Life Social Club 6/20 - $10
2024-06-20 18:00 - 20:00

Botanical Gel Printing With Melissa Reid
2024-06-19 18:00 - 20:00
Learn to create beautiful, unique botanical prints with a gel plate. Experiment with mixing colors and developing layers while printing a variety of leaves and flowers. Experience the excitement of pulling one-of-a-kind prints that are perfect for displaying or gifting. Let our tools and tips guide you to create something uniquely your own.
Class cost $35, includes all of the necessary materials. Botanicals may vary based on availability.
Class size is limited to 8 participants
