Looky Here

Looky Here 3rd Annual Gala Auction Opening, Looky Beer Release, and TRIVIA
2024-10-16 20:00 (America/New_York) | The People’s Pint, 24 Federal St, Greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
ART OPENING/BEER RELEASE/TRIVIA! – On October 16th at 8:00 we will hang a portion of our available artworks at the People’s Pint and host a celebration of our new “Looky Beer” collaboration with the restaurant. Join us for TRVIA with prizes!! Plus, every pour of “Looky Beer,” earns Looky Here $1!!!

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The auction will close at 10:30pm on the night of our Victorian Saloon Gala at the People’s Pint, December 14th, 2024. The event will have Live Piano Karaoke, raffles, and special in-person live auctions starting at 9:00pm. You won’t want to miss it, but need not be present to win!
This year, our fundraising goal is $50,000. Since opening in 2017, we have hosted over 1,250 workshops, curated over 40 gallery shows, trained over 100 people in Riso printing, organized nearly a dozen community festivals, and rehomed countless boxes of art supplies. Looky Here has been largely volunteer-run since its inception. Although we started our Looky Here journey nearly 8 years ago, we are raising $50,000 as part of a start-up fund so that we can support and sustain our nonprofit and become eligible for larger capacity grants.
With more funding, we would be able to pay our managing directors a minimum wage, hire a larger team, provide more robust scholarships for workshops, offer more free events, upgrade our facilities, host visiting artists and sustain our mission of affordable arts for all!
goals:
$10,000 by September
$15,000 by October
$25,000 by November
$35,000 by December
$50,000 by 2025!

Strange Page Reading
2024-10-15 19:00
Join us for a reading from Strange Page Participants!
7:00!
$10 suggested donation
NOTAFLOF

POSTPONED! Falling in Love with Community: A Conversation Party
2024-10-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Looky Here, 28 chapman street, greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
EVENT POSTPONED! We will try again in the winter!
Speed dating for friendship!
Be scared, be shy, come anyway!
6:00-8:00

Figure Drawing 10/3
2024-10-03 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.

Gallery Closing for Buoyant Heart "Back and Forthness"
2024-10-02 19:00
Last chance to see the show and a PLAY organized by Buoyant Heart!

Collage Club - 9/28
2024-09-28 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!

From Comb to Candle- How to Make Hand Dipped Beeswax Candles
2024-09-21 12:30 - 15:00
In this class you will learn how bees make beeswax and how humans have worked with beeswax over millennia. Then you will learn how to render beeswax for candle making and hand dip candles from beeswax. You’ll take home a set of two hand dipped candles for your own ritual needs.

All skill levels welcome, no candle making experience is necessary. Must be able to sit for prolonged periods (45 min) and stand periodically for candle dipping. All materials provided.

Saturday 9/21 12:30-3:00
$38 per person

Magick Lantern, Bonnie, and BEN HERSEY
2024-09-20 19:00 - 23:00
Bonnie – Maine grunge rock
Magick Lantern – Mass ROCK!
Ben Hersey – performance art that surprises and delights
$15

Figure Drawing 9/19
2024-09-19 18:00 - 20:00

Hooks and Needles! Every Second Saturday with Caroline James from 1:00-3:00
2024-09-14 13:00 - 15:00
Hooks and Needles: a social space for stitchers to share tips, work on projects, or start something new!
Discount for GCC students. No experience necessary, and materials will be provided.

Riso Print Workshop! Make your Own Stationary
2024-09-14 12:00 - 15:00
Learn how to design and print on the Risograph in this stationary workshop! Each student will use 2 colors and will make an edition of 20 custom note cards and envelopes!

Open Mic for Writers SUPERSTITIONS! featuring Zoe Tuck
2024-09-13 19:00 - 22:00
Bring your most superstitious pieces!
We’ll start the night off with sign ups and end off hearing pieces from ZOE TUCK!!!
Seltzers available!
$10 suggested donation! NOTAFLOF

Still Life Social Club
2024-09-12 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-08-01 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 🎨✏️💐🏺🧃🍿🎶🧸📚

Tea & Cookies! Black tea and soy milk dying workshop
2024-09-07 13:00 - 15:00
Bring your own cotton or natural fibered fabrics to the tea and cookies dying workshop, or play with some of ours! Soy milk is a mordant, and enhances the black tea’s ability to dye natural fabrics, we will drink tea, dye with tea, and eat cookies! This workshop is open to all ages!

Figure Drawing 9/5
2024-09-05 18:00 - 20:00

Collage Club 1:00-3:00
2024-08-31 13:00 - 15:00

Greenfield Gallery Walk: Buoyant Heart Opening Reception
2024-08-30 17:00 - 20:00
Opening Reception for Buoyant Heart Gallery Show!

Still Life Social Club 8/29
2024-08-29 18:00 - 20:00

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

(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.

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

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.
