Looky Here

Collage Club!
2024-07-27 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
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!

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

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.

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.

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!

Figure Drawing 8/8/24
2024-08-08 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.

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!

Still Life Social Club 8/15
2024-08-15 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!

Figure Drawing 8/22
2024-08-22 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!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

Collage Club - 9/28
2024-09-28 13:00 - 15:00

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!

Figure Drawing 10/3
2024-10-03 18:00 - 20:00

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

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

Looky Here 3rd Annual Gala Auction Opening, Looky Beer Release, and TRIVIA
2024-10-16 20:00 | 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!!!

!DONATE NOW!
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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!

Figure Drawing
2024-10-17 18:00 - 20:00
