Looky Here
art center, nonprofit, gallery, thrift store for art supplies, print shop and press, and workshop space for writing and art in Greenfield, MA.
For tickets, visit our CALENDAR PAGE and click on the day you would like to sign up for.
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 on every final Saturday of the month! Tickets for this event are $10 each class. Let’s cut things up, glue them down, and create something beautiful!
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!
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
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This year’s annual fundraising gala will be a Victorian Saloon at The People’s Pint! A selection of donated art will hang for 2 months and will be auctioned to help us reach our goal of $50,000 by the end of 2024. Many of the donated items will not be on view at The Pint, but will be up for auction online only. Be sure to browse the whole collection! The online auction will open on October 16th at 4pm. At the same time and date, we will host a celebration of our new “Looky Beer” collaboration with the People’s Pint at the restaurant. We will hold a trivia contest with prizes, drink our “Looky Beer”, which earns Looky Here $1 per pour, and will begin bidding on the displayed and online works! 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 Piano Bar Karaoke, raffles, and special in-person live auctions. You won’t want to miss it, but need not be present to win!
This year, our fundraising goal is $50,000. Looky Here is a non-profit art space founded by artists in Greenfield, MA in 2017. We provide the community with affordable used art supplies, art workshops, exhibition space and access to our Risograph printer, which we use to produce an ever-growing collection of cards, books and prints from local artists. Our funding comes in the form of donations, ticket sales, printing revenue, merchandise sales and the occasional local grant.
Since opening in 2017, we have: hosted over 1,250 workshops, curated over 40 gallery shows, trained over 100 people in Riso printing, organized over 10 community festivals, and rehomed countless boxes of art supplies. Looky Here has been largely volunteer-run since it’s inception. The funding needed to sustain the space would ideally come from large grants, however, we need at least $50,000 to become applicable for these 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 out facilities, host visiting artists and sustain our mission of affordable arts for all!
Chelsea Granger is a multidisciplinary artist. Painting, drawing, illustration, murals and tattoos are the foundations 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 her art as a way to sign 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 every day, 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. For more than twelve years, Chelsea has collaborated with Thyme Herbal, making medicine posters and zines. Chelsea holds a bachelor’s degree in painting from UMass-Amherst and a certificate in therapeutic recreation from Gateway Community College. Her work celebrates life while honoring death and walking gently into the unknown.
$500 1st place prize + publication in our 2025 winter issue
All submissions considered for publication. Send us your best short story, 3,000 word maximum – no minimum, double spaced,12 point font, using Times New Roman in .DOC, .DOCX, or a PDF (Google Docs not accepted) along with a $20 submission fee (payable by Venmo or Paypal) to LookyHereGreenfield@gmail.com with the subject line: SHORT STORY CONTEST! Please include a screenshot of your submission fee in your email with a brief cover letter and a bio by AUGUST 1st!
General Submissions also open for all writing and art! Get more info here -> Looky Here Magazine!
Friday May 31st, 5:00-8:00pm!
last chance to see this amazing art show and grab a painting to hang in your home. Emily’s pieces are vibrant and awe inspiring!!
FRIDAY! March 22nd from 7:00 – 9:00
Music by elie mcafee-hahn
Reading by Chris Weisman
Be first in line to see Chris’s latest book of poems printed by Hannah Brookman on the risograph at Looky!
Saturday, March 23rd from 1:00-3:00!
Our second issue is ready for its big debut. Join us for cupcakes and a reading from over 11 writers!
$20 includes admission to the reading, a copy of our magazine, and a cupcake!
Looky Here Masquerade Gala Fundraiser at the Pushkin Gallery
Drinks! Food! Music! Art! Friends! Masques! 🙂
7:00 – Shea Mowat / 8:00 Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth Tribute Band / 9:00 Loculus Collective
9:30 LIVE AUCTION! (in-person only goods and prizes)
10:00 – All auction/raffle winners announced, including a PRIZE for best Masquerade Costume!
Our auction is live! Place your bids! Make an account at 32auctions.com and place all of your bids online. It’s free and easy!
Pre-sale tickets – $15 (buy yours here – Presale ends Friday, 12/15 at midnight!)
Tickets at the door – $20 (same day tickets. Presale ends the day before the Masquerade Gala!)
Drinks! Food! Music! Art! Friends! Masques! 🙂
PHOTO BOOTH FROM 7:00-9:00!
7:00 – Shea Mowat / 8:00 Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth Tribute Band / 9:00 Loculus Collective
9:30 LIVE AUCTION! (in-person only goods and prizes)
10:00 – All auction/raffle winners announced, including a PRIZE for best Masquerade Costume!
Our auction is live! Place your bids! Make an account at 32auctions.com and place all of your bids online. It’s free and easy!
Pre-sale tickets – $15 (buy yours here – Presale ends Friday, 12/15 at midnight!)
Tickets at the door – $20 (same day tickets. Presale ends the day before the Masquerade Gala!)
Our very first magazine is arriving on Saturday, October 14th!
Join our Magazine Release and Reading with a Pie Bar!
Pie and drinks served from 11:00-2:00 (or until we sell out!)
Magazine -$15
Slice of Pie $8
Drinks $5-12
Reading $10 suggested donation
$25 package ticket!
n.o.t.a.f.l.o.f.
Reading starts at noon!
Sarah Wisby / Catherine Bresner / Kat Freeman / David Russell / Casper Lucia / Vanessa Brewster and more TBA!
This year’s event was sponsored by the Mass Cultural and we are ever grateful!
August 11-September 29th, 2023
Opening Friday August 25, 5-8pm. Closing September 29th 5-8pm
Sorcerers are safe. Sorcerers are powerful. They surround me, and alongside them I can escape. As my method of self care, I have built a world to retreat to, escape into. Painting itself has become my dissociative landscape, my personal decampment, a recharging station. Through my Sorcerer paintings I explore the concept of aging women as both powerful and exquisite. By synthesizing traditional bodies with otherworldly ingredients I imagine a world where all Sorcerers and all women are untethered and off duty. Hung side by side these paintings function as individual windows into the world of the Sorcerers.
Here is a glimpse into the World of the Sorcerers:
Tuesday’s Universe of powerful Sorcerers and Majek of every kind… even the mysterious Smoity Light Rainbow Zpectroom. From deep in the Rainbowrealms, shadowy figures unveil themselves: women, hieresses, goddesses, matriarks — a Sisterhood of Dynamas cast in Laser Steel. Their voices burst through Crystaline Structures and dazzle with the sublime. Sorcerers emerge from every crevice, notch, and nodule of the Outer-Etherverse… the Tuesdayverse.
“see Here!” “look There!”
Elfen Libras: these immortal faeries enthrall — all things vibrate in the Resonance of the Sorcerers. Ethereal voices resound together in unison:
“Outside it was Tuesday!” “Outside it is Tuesday!”
Olivia Hamilton (b.1995, Boston, MA) bio:
I am a painter living and working in Queens, New York. I prefer panel over canvas, fabric over plastic, and magic over mania. I am currently working on a series of Sorcerer paintings. After receiving my BFA in Sculpture and Painting at Boston University’s School of Visual Arts I moved to New York and have worked for eight different artists from painters & sculptors to installation & performance artists. I have an avid studio practice of my own, painting for 10 hours a day. Over the years I have specialized in fabric and textile sculpture and walked the line between garment construction and fine art. I have now pivoted back to oil painting, using my traditional draftsmanship and color theory training to build my outer-etherverse, my “Tuesday-verse.”
Seaweed Monsters, Niaids, Dryads, Pirates and Fairy Queens of All Ages are invited to the Magical, Mystical Wedding of Merfolk to take place at Peskeumskut Park on Saturday, September 2nd from 1-4pm.
Attendants are encouraged to dress “Magical Formal” for this special occasion. Wings, tails, horns, beaks and antenna are all welcome. Expect wedding cake, a photo booth, a butterfly release, fairy house making supplies and live original music by the talented Wednesday Knudsen , Kryssi B and Madden Aleia! All are invited to participate in the annual “Prettiest Picnic Contest” with prizes! And all will be entered in a drawing to win the Ultimate Lovelights Boxset! Plus a Cameo in our next episode!
The Lovelights is a comic series, a performance group and a Children’s T.V. show produced by Montague Community Television and Looky Here. This will be the 4th annual Fairy House day to take place!
Participation in Fairy House day is free and welcome to all! Fairy house day is supported by Riverculture and the Massachussetts Cultural Council. If you love Fairy House Day, please consider making a donation to Looky Here with the note “Lovelights” to contribute to next year’s event! Donations can be made via Paypal to Lookyheregreenfield.com, Venmo @L00ky_here or a check made out to Looky Here can be mailed to our storefront at 28 Chapman street in Greenfield MA 01301.
Cheers to the happy couple!!
EN EL ESPAÑOL…
Monstruos de algas, náyades, dríadas, piratas y reinas de hadas de todos los edades están invitados a la boda mágica y mística de sirenes que tendrá lugar en el Parque de Peskeompskut el sábado 2 de septiembre de las 13:00 hasta las 16:00.
Se animan a los asistentes a vestirse formal y mágico para esta ocasión especial. Las alas, colas, antenas, y los picos, y cuernos son bienvenidos. ¡Espera un pastel de bodas, una cabina de fotos, un lanzamiento de mariposas, los materiales para hacer una casa de hadas, y música original en vivo de las talentosas Wednesday Knudsen, Kryssi B y Madden Aleia! ¡Todos están invitados a participar en el “Concurso anual del picnic más bonito” con premios! ¡Y todos entrarán en un sorteo para ganar el Ulimate Lovelights Boxset! ¡Además de un cameo en nuestro próximo episodio!
The Lovelights es una serie cómica, un grupo de actuación y un programa de television para niños producido por Montague Community Television y Looky Here. ¡Este será el cuarto Fairy House Day que tendrá lugar! ¡La participación en el Fairy House Day es gratuita y bienvenida a todos.
El Fairy House Day cuenta con el apoyo de Riverculture y el Massachusetts Cultural Council. Si te encanta el Fairy House Day, considera hacer una donación a Looky Here con la nota “Lovelights” para contribuir al evento del próximo año. Las donaciones se pueden hacer a través de Paypal a Lookyheregreenfield.com, Venmo @L00ky_here o se puede enviar un cheque a nombre de Looky Here a nuestra tienda en 28 Chapman street en Greenfield MA 01301. ¡¡Saludos a la feliz pareja!!
See the results of 2 moths of portrait painting at Looky Here in Julia Shirar’s Closing Reception on Final Friday Art Walk in Greenfield, Friday July 28
The Mermaids are getting hitched at Peskeomskut Park on Fairy House Day, September 2, 2023 and we need to make sure it is a night to remember ! Fairy House day is a free anual family friendly fairy festival in Tuners Falls, presented by The Lovelights. This Fairy House Day fundraiser is for the adults and will be held at 10Forward on Thursday August 3 at 8pm! We will have raffles, games, dancing, prizes and bubbles! Costumes are strongly encouraged and prizes will be awarded to the best dressed. Dress code: Magical Club Wear
Presale Tickets Here🧜♀️ or Purchase at the door!
A new project is on the horizon!
Looky Here magazine will publish its first issue in FALL 2023!
To learn more, find the Magazine page in our “Projects” menu or follow the link!
opening March 10 with Junk Orbit, Allysen Gallery, Akrm Foam, Wednesday Knudsen, Dusty Miller and Tarp with art by Josh Burkett, Dawn Cook, Nora Charles, Shannon Ketch, Erica Pinto, Troy Curry and Andi Magenheimer
More images from Admin Reveal on Hannah Brookman’s Website
Opening 4/16/22 6-8pm
On view through May
A juried submission show
The W.Mass Edition kicks off April 6th at Looky Here. This will be the first of three continuously complementing poetic, performative, and sonic, multiorgasmic experiences created by LA-based artists Emji Saint Spero + Jeremy Kennedy…why stop at just one?
This event features:
Catherine Bresner (@catherineb817)
Trish Hartland (@trishhartland)+ Beverly Ketch (@beverlyketch)
**Join us beforehand (1-3pm) at Looky Here for Experimental Confessionalism + The Fantasy of Authenticity: A Poetry + Bookbinding Workshop hosted by Emji Saint Spero.
$10 drop in!
August 8th Peskeomskut Park, Turners Falls, MA
🧚♀️FAiry House Day 🧚♂️is the best ✨day ✨of ✨the✨ year!! ✨If you were 🍀lucky enough to come to the past two🦄 then we know we’ll see you at this one on 🌻August 8th 🌸at Peskeomskut Park in 💦Turners Falls. Many of our favorite activities are back🥳, like fairy house building🌿, green screen fairy filming🎥, the most beautiful picnic contest 🧺 (with prizes)🏆, a butterfly release🦋, snack vendors🍿 and the rainbow 🌈flash mob! The event from 3-6 and free for everyone of all ages🌞! Enjoy some clips from fairy house days of the past, and check lovelightstv.wordpress.com for updates and more videos! ☔️Note that the rain date is the following Sunday the 15th! 🌦#lovelightsisters
We will be having another Garden Work and Planting day this coming Saturday June 19th from 9-12! Please come, bring your friends, and spread abundance with us!
The Native Plant group will be meeting on Sunday June 20th from 9:30-11:30. Please come join and bring buckets of water or watering cans if you have them!
We are also looking for monetary donations so that we will be able to fill all of the beds with growing medium! We currently have one large and one small bed filled, but have many vegetables still in their little pots and wanting to stretch their roots! Any donation is helpful! From $10 to $ 25 to $50!
Donations can be sent via PayPal, check, or Looky Here’s website!
PayPal: lookyheregreenfield@gmail.comCheck: Made out to Looky Here, 28 Chapman St. Greenfield, MA 01301Website: https://lookyheregreenfield.com/chapman-street-community-garden/
Please label your donations: Community Garden
