Just THREE Teen Summer Camps left this year! ☀️

Our Teen Watercolor & Mixed Media Camp last week was super fun! Great to see how much everyone improves and grows in confidence even just over the course of a few days. :)

Join us for Zine Camp, Comics Camp, or Sketchbooks Camp in August!

TONIGHT, July 28, 6:00 PM: What are you working on? What are you stuck on? Bring your WIPs to Fresh Look and get a second or third opinion! See what everyone else is working on! It's always fun and inspiring to see in-progress work, isn't it? 👀 FREE MEETUP.

Friday, July 31, NOON: This Block Printing Workshop is SOLD OUT! Join the waitlist or plan ahead for next time! ⏹️(We've also got a new stamp-carving class (so new, it doesn't have a graphic made yet!!) coming up, which is like a mini version of the block printing class...)

Friday, July 31, 6:00 PM: Is it the end of the month already??? Close it out with a good time with your fellow queer artists at QU-ART! Bring something to work on and just hang out for a while! 🏳️‍🌈FREE MEETUP.

Saturday, August 1, 10:00 AM: August's Zine Crash Course will focus on fanzines! Come make a fanzine about your favorite book, movie, TV show, local radio station, cats, or whatever else you're a fan of. We'll look at some examples and talk about how to balance writing and art while making a zine about what you love. 💖

Saturday, August 1, 1:00 PM: Can't get enough of fountain pen inks? Make your own at Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make! Learn the basic chemistry behind making inks and create up to four of your own to take home! That's a lot of ink!! 🧪

Saturday, August 1, 4:00 PM: This month's Book Binding Workshop will feature a new binding method, the X-Cross! Using paper and/or fabric, we'll bind a journal with an exposed x-cross stitch on the spine. 📚 THREE SPOTS LEFT! (a spot opened up since last week!)

Sunday, August 2, 1:00 PM: August's Color Theory for Artists focuses on watercolor! How do colors work in this medium specifically? How do different pigments interact with each other? How can you make your paintings feel more balanced and cohesive? Let's get into together! 🌈

Did you know? Barn Sour is a FREE comix newspaper! The third issue just dropped and we have a bunch, so grab a copy next time you're in!

The newspaper features tons of great comics and art by local artists, along with information about numerous local and regional mutual aid projects and community events. If you've been looking to get involved, it's an amazing resource, and we're thrilled to have it available!

Monday, August 3, 11:00 AM: Meet us at Ballard Locks for Botanical Sketching and let's get some sketching in before it gets too hot! There are so many beautiful plants to capture and learn about! 🌿

Monday, August 3, 5:30 PM: This Creative Visible Mending will cover a new topic -- saddle repair! Learn how to patch and fix worn-out jeans in the areas that stress them out the most! 👖

Tuesday-Friday, August 4-7, 11:00 AM: Our Teen Zine Summer Camp is a 4-day series covering many aspects of zinemaking! Self-publishing is a powerful tool. Figuring out what you want to say is a good way to figure out what you think in the first place, and being able to communicate and share information -- whether it's silly or serious -- without intermediaries or barriers becomes more and more important in an age of mass censorship and misinformation. Zines arm kids with the power to change the world, and we really believe that! 🌍

Tuesday, August 4, 6:00 PM: It's that time again! Ballard Sketch Team meets in the back room at Hattie's Hat every first and third Tuesday for casual drawing and catching up! All skill levels welcome!! 🍻FREE MEETUP.

Wednesday, August 5, 6:00 PM: Stitch n' Bitch is our monthly fiber arts meetup! Bring your in-progress projects and get some time in with them! Whether you're knitting, crocheting, felting, embroidering, or something else, you can find camaraderie at our crafts table! 🧶FREE MEETUP.

Thursday, August 6, 4:30 PM: NEW CLASS! It's another chance to learn two things at once with Gel Plate Notebooks! Get a lil bit of gel plate printmaking and a lil bit of bookbinding in! Get a cool notebook out of it!

Friday, August 7, 6:00 PM: NEW CLASS! In town visiting? Or hosting visitors? Bring 'em in to make their own souvenir at Sights from Seattle! Every month we'll paint a Seattle-area icon or scene, rotating through mediums! This month will feature our new local celebrity, Jimothy, and watercolors! Whether Ballard is home or you're just passing through, come paint this fun lil guy with us! 🦝

Saturday, August 8, 10:00 AM: Is Procreate your digital art program of choice? Want to learn how to separate colors and format for Risograph printing? Join us for Risograph Design for Procreate! 🖨️

Saturday, August 8, 6:00 PM: It's the opening reception of POSTED! Artists were all given a stamp-shaped wood panel to create on -- what are the results? Come find out and maybe claim a stamp as your own?

Sunday, August 9, 11:00 AM: Nature is ever-abundant with gifts for all to use, so let's use them! Botanical Printing Sampler teaches you how to utilise natural materials in a variety of printmaking process -- drawing definitely isn't the only way to make art! 🍀

Sunday, August 9, 3:00 PM: Learn or level up your gouache game while painting a beautiful landscape at Gouache Landscapes! 🌅

Sunday, August 9, 7:15 PM: July was a busy month, but Riff Raff League is finally back! A million terrible things are happening every day, all the time. It's overwhelming, but it's also always a good time to get involved and figure out what you can do about it. Process events with community and plan action together. ❤️‍🔥 FREE MEETUP.