Looky Here

Puppet Making for Franklin County Fair (1-4pm) Every Sunday in August!
2026-08-23 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Come make puppets, flags, banners, and decorations for our spot in the parade!
All are welcome.
Free! Fun!

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

Minor Cosmologies: Gallery Reception for Eva Lin Fahey (Friday 8/28, 5pm)
2026-08-28 17:00 - 20:00
Join us for the Gallery Reception for Eva Lin Fahey!
Refreshments will be provided.
5pm-8pm on Friday 8/28

*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-11:50)
2026-08-29 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-09-05 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-19 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-26 10:30 - 12:00
*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

*Collage Club (8/29) – 1:00-3:00 (Every final Saturday of the Month) $10 – free for members
2026-08-29 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!

Puppet Making for Franklin County Parade! (1-4pm) Every Sunday in August!
2026-08-30 13:00 - 16:00

Public Interest Zine Making (8/31, 6:00-8:00pm, by donation)
2026-08-31 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.

*Open Studio Sundays (1-4pm, drop-ins welcome!)
2026-09-06 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-13 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-20 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-27 13:00 - 16:00
*Open Studio Sundays (1-4pm, drop-ins welcome!)
CRAFT
MEND
SEW
DRAW
WRITE
use the space from 1-4pm
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)

Improvised Quilting: The Sampler Class (8 wks - 9/9/26-10/28/26, 5:30-7:30pm, $200)
2026-09-09 17:30 - 19:30
This is an 8 week long quilting course with Sarah King from 9/9/26-10/28/26 from 5:30-7:30pm
This course is a supportive class for improvised projects on varying scales, suited to help students at the beginner level and the experienced pursue a project of their own design. We will investigate improvised practices and explore the journey of this type of quilting through the structure of a sampler quilt. The 8 weeks will center on each student discovering their own personality as an improvised quilter and find confidence to explore their instincts. The hope with this course is to help students understand their own quilting personality while also developing skills on sewing and accomplishing a finished work. Each week students will be led with a new improvising prompt, skill or concept that will be turned into a block. Through these blocks, students will learn to set strategies for their process while also learning to cope with the evolutions and shifts that come up in improvising. Students will also learn how to share work and get feedback from other students and build community in making.

Quilting is as much about the process as it is about the finished quilt. It is an exercise in exploring one’s relationship to navigating entropy: finding narrative and pattern in chaos. Playing with how many possibilities and pieces and colors and textures are before you and empowering oneself to make decisions and be flexible to change.

Franklin County Fair Parade
2026-09-10 17:00 - 19:00
The annual kick-off parade takes place on Thursday of the Fair.
Looky Here has a spot in the parade! Please let us know by 8/14 if you would like to join us!
The parade starts at 5:00 pm from the area of Greenfield Middle School and Blessed Sacrament Church. It travels south down Federal Street and turns right onto Main Street. The parade follows Main St and turns left onto River Street at the Dunkin’ Donuts. It then turns right onto Laurel Street and ends at th

RISO Animation with Kelli Anderson! (2 day workshop 9/11-12)
2026-09-11 - 2026-09-12 | Looky Here, 28 chapman street, greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
This 2 day weekend workshop, taught by the one and only Kelli Anderson! will take place at Looky Here in Greenfield, MA. We will cover the entire process of printing a short looping animation: taking it from a video to a 2 color printed sheet, to a printed moving animation. We will be working on our own laptops and the Looky Here Risograph, which has florescent pink, yellow, teal and black ink.
In the first session, Friday September 11th from 7-9pm, we will be preparing our print files and sending them to the Riso. (You will need to come with a video ready!)
In the second session, Saturday September 12th 11-2pm, you will make your animation come to life! (instruction will be led in Photoshop, but alternative tool ideas are welcome!)
Looky Here staff will operate the Riso, but participants are welcome to watch and learn!
Learn more about how Kelli invented this!
Kelli will be in our area touring her amazing new pop-up book at MAss Moca!
Definitely check out all of what Kelli does, and take this exciting opportunity to lean from her!

*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-11:50) AT GFM
2026-09-12 10:30 - 12:00
THIS SESSION WILL BE AT GFM (Greenfield Farmer’s Market)
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. 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 9/12: Momigami Workshop
2026-09-12 14:00 - 16:00
Learn the ancient Japanese art of momigami, which transforms ordinary paper into a soft, fabric-like material that has many uses in mixed media arts, junk journaling, and bookbinding. The word momigami translates as kneaded paper, and that is what we will be doing, using oil or lotion in the process.

Materials you can bring (some will be provided):

-Magazine pages or other papers

-Olive oil, coconut oil, hand lotion, or hair conditioner

Risograph Workshop: Scan-in Collage (9/17, 5-8pm, $65)
2026-09-17 17:00 - 20:00
Make some collages using the scanning bed on our Risograph printer!
Thursday 9/17/26 from 5-8pm
$65 – materials included, feel free to bring your own collage material

Drawing in Color with Hannah Brookman (9/18, 5-7pm, $30)
2026-09-18 17:00 - 19:00
Explore color in this 2 hour drawing workshop with our talented founder and President, Hannah Brookman!
Takes place Friday 9/18/26 from 5-7pm
$30, materials included

Unproductive Behaviors: Year 5 (6 week writing workshop 9/22-10/27, 6:30-8pm, $125))
2026-09-22 18:30 - 20:00
Unproductive Behaviors is a queer-focused writing circle by Sierra D. Dickey. We will generate new work every week using to 100s method.
Some things past students say:
“This is the best generative writing workshop I have ever take…”
“I would describe this class as the building of a big web of shared language / a communal world collage gathering / a surprising & unproductive experiment in writing collaboratively.”
“It ends up building this really cool ecosystem of worlds in one Google doc..”

*Figure Drawing (9/24) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-09-24 18:00 - 20:00

Greenfield Art Summit at Greenfield Public Library (9:30am-12:30pm)
2026-09-25 09:30 - 12:30
Join us at the Greenfield Public Library!

*Collage Club (9/26) – 1:00-3:00 (Every final Saturday of the Month) $10 – free for members
2026-09-26 13:00 - 15:00

Public Interest Zine Making (9/28, 6:00-8:00pm, by donation)
2026-09-28 18:00 - 20:00

Watercolor Painting Fundamentals (4 week workshop 11/30-12/21, 6-9pm, $250)
2026-11-30 18:00 - 21:00
Watercolor Painting Fundamentals with Giselle Harrington
4 Mondays from 11/30-12/21* @ 6-9pm, $250
*Note: This class is bookended by Thanksgiving and Christmas and there is no room for in-person make-up dates. In case of a snowstorm, class will be held on Zoom.
Learn wash types, all aspects of brush handling, basic color mixing, how paintings are built up, and how to apply this to representational painting. We will be using photo references.
Cost: 250. Students can bring their own supplies, 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).
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.
Check out her work at https://www.giselleharrington.com/
