Paint What You See with Julia Shirar (Alternating Thursdays - 6:00-8:00)
2024-01-04 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
In this workshop, you’ll look at things and paint! We’ll take it from the beginning and get really comfortable pushing paint around and mixing different values. We’ll use acrylics and cover ideas and techniques that can be used with any kind of paint.
Materials are included! But definitely bring heavy paper, cardboard, or canvas board if you’ve got it. 18″x 24″ is a good size.
Alternating Thursdays (1/4, 1/18, 2/1) from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Unproductive Behaviors with Sierra Dickey (6 weeks - Mondays 5:00 - 7:00)
2024-01-08 17:00 - 19:00
This writing circle for queer-identified people focuses on generating new work of any genre. We will write and revise in community through the 100s method popularized by feminist scholars like Lauren Berlant and Dr. Kim Tall Bear. The 100s asks each participant to write 100 words a day on an assigned day of the week. Participants write in one shared document where they can see and take momentum from each other’s work. During the week, writers will be given an optional prompt and are expected to write 100 words on their given day. When the group gathers we will review each other’s writing, discuss the process of generating together, and support each other as we explore ways to take our fragments further. This workshop is titled ‘unproductive behaviors’ because it is dedicated to generating work without adhering to ideals of productivity that harry writers to push out word counts or tangible products. By depending on a group of writers to generate in concert (akin to singing in the round), the 100s process invites us to dally in the process.

Fee: $120 per person
Dates: 5-7pm Mondays for 6 weeks. Jan 8 – Feb 12
Scholarship: two free spots open for queer writers of color. Email Sierra to request a spot.
Contact: dickey.sierra@gmail.com

Quilting By Hand with Sarah Guzzetti (6 Tuesdays - 6:00-8:00p.m.)
2024-01-09 18:00 - 20:00
Complete a full size quilt in just 6 weeks! Make it by hand, make your own patterns, DO IT YOUR WAY! There will be plenty of materials on hand but feel free to bring your own fabrics, be it silk or old socks. Don’t worry if you don’t know how to sew well– we’ll keep it simple and have fun!
Runs 6 weeks on Tuesday evenings from 6:00-8:00, 1/9 – 2/13!

Spanish Through Art - January 10th (6:00-8:00)
2024-01-10 18:00 - 20:00
We will talk in Spanish about Gaudi and make a Gaudi inspired piece!
In Spanish through art, we spend 30 minutes discussing a Spanish speaking artist or an art form from a hispanic country (all in Spanish of course) and then we spend the remainder of class making art in a similar style to what we just learned.
Classes are open to all levels of Spanish speakers, but they are conducted entirely in Spanish! Be ready to immerse yourself in art and language and have fun!
All materials included.

Figure Drawing 1/11/24
2024-01-11 18:00 - 20:00
BYO materials.
Easels and Drawing horses provided!

Art Commune Film Series: Free Spirits (2007), the Renaissance Community commune
2024-01-12 18:00 - 20:00
For the first film in the monthly screening series on Art Communes, we will be watching “Free Spirits, the incredible true story of the Renaissance Community commune, one of the largest, most controversial intentional communities of the 1960s and 70s, and its flamboyant founder, Michael Metelica Rapunzel. The Renaissance Community settled in Turners Falls and Gill, MA, and still has a presence there today. “Free Spirits” was written and directed by a Renaissance Community member, Bruce Geisler

Risograph Workshop
2024-01-13 12:00 - 15:00
Make your own mini zine!

Generative Poetry Workshop with Adrie Rose (4 Sundays - 2:00-4:00p.m.)
2024-01-14 14:00 - 16:00
Join us for a generative poetry workshop this January. We’ll play with forms, use sizzling hot poems as jumping-off points, and get into our bodies in order to flex our voices, all in a warmly supportive space. Poets of all levels are welcome, just bring a way to write and your enthusiasm for words–what they can do and the places where they’re not enough! Taught by Adrie Rose, editor of Nine Syllables Press at Smith College, and author of I Will Write a Love Poem (Porkbelly Press) and Rupture (Gold Line Press).

Unproductive Behaviors with Sierra Dickey (6 weeks - Mondays 5:00 - 7:00)
2024-01-15 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-05 17:00 - 19:00
See week one for tickets/registration!

Hand-sewn Quilt Workshop with Sarah Guzzetti (6 Tuesdays - 6:00-8:00p.m.)
2024-01-16 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-01-23 18:00 - 20:00

Make our Merch!
2024-01-17 13:00 - 17:00
In this free workshop, we will be learning different methods of up-cycling clothing to create a line of Looky Here Looks! All items made in this workshop will be for sale at the shop.

Paint What You See with Julia Shirar
2024-01-18 18:00 - 20:00
Tickets and info in week 1!

Clothing Swap!
2024-01-20 13:00 - 15:00
Clean out you closets! It’s a Looky Here Clothing Swap! You are welcome to bring as much as you’d like and take as much as you’d like. Looky Here will donate and upcycle the unwanted leftovers! Please donate $5-10 to participate!

Generative Poetry Workshop with Adrie Rose (4 Sundays - 2:00-4:00p.m.)
2024-01-21 14:00 - 16:00

Generative Poetry Workshop with Adrie Rose (4 Sundays - 2:00-4:00p.m.)
2024-01-21 14:00 - 16:00
See week one for tickets/registration

Unproductive Behaviors with Sierra Dickey (6 weeks - Mondays 5:00 - 7:00)
2024-01-22 17:00 - 19:00
See week one (1/8) for tickets/registration!

Spanish through Art
2024-01-24 18:00 - 20:00

Figure Drawing 1/25/23
2024-01-25 18:00 - 20:00

FINAL FRIDAY closing of QUILT SHOW
2024-01-26 17:00 - 20:00
Join us in celebrating the artists Emily Carris and Rae Heller in the closing of their quilt show during the Greenfield Arts Walk.

Collage Club!
2024-01-27 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!

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.

Generative Poetry Workshop with Adrie Rose (4 Sundays - 2:00-4:00p.m.)
2024-01-28 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-04 14:00 - 16:00
Go to week one for tickets and registration!

Unproductive Behaviors with Sierra Dickey (6 weeks - Mondays 5:00 - 7:00)
2024-01-29 17:00 - 19:00
see week one for tickets/registration! (1/8)

Hand-sewn Quilt Workshop with Sarah Guzzetti (6 Tuesdays - 6:00-8:00p.m.)
2024-01-30 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-02-06 18:00 - 20:00
See week one for tickets and registration!

Make our Merch
2024-01-31 13:00 - 17:00

Figure Drawing 2/8/23
2024-02-08 18:00 - 20:00

Art Commune Film Series: The Cockettes
2024-02-09 18:00 - 20:00
The Cockettes were an avant garde psychedelic hippie theater group founded by Hibiscus (George Edgerly Harris III)in the fall of 1969. The troupe was formed out of a group of hippie artists, men and women, who were living in Kaliflower, one of the many communes in Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Hibiscus came to live with them because of their preference for dressing outrageously and proposed the idea of putting their lifestyle on the stage.
