Opening Saturday: ART-STROLOGY ♑♒♓♈
Opening Saturday: ART-STROLOGY ♑♒♓♈
Yes! We're kicking off the year with a Risograph calendar and print series featuring the zodiac!

What's your sign? Come find them all at our ART-STROLOGY show featuring 12 pieces of Riso-printed artwork, available as in a collected calendar or as individual prints.
Notes & Reminders
Classes Feedback
Let us know what classes you want to see and when in this super short survey!
Stanza 2026: Growth
Don't forget, we're still taking poetry submissions and artist applications for next year's edition of Stanza through January 18! 🌱
This Week
Make your own little doodads at Shrinky Dinks n' Drinks! Your shrunken art will be great as brooches, pins, magnets, jewelry, and more!
TONIGHT, January 6, 6:00 PM: Ballard Sketch Team is a casual meetup that convenes twice monthly at Hattie's Hat! Bring a sketchbook or something to work on, grab some food and a bevvie, and settle in for a chill time drawing, hanging out, and catching up with other local artists! 🍔 FREE MEETUP.

Wednesday, January 7, 6:00 PM: Get some time in with your fiber arts project at Stitch n' Bitch, our monthly meetup for knitters, crocheters, embroiders, needle-felters, and others! 🧵 FREE MEETUP.

Thursday, January 8, 6:00 PM: Recapture some nostalgic magic with the power of shrinking at Shrinky Dinks n' Drinks! BYO bevvies and hang out to make art! Then shrink your creations into lil dinks, perfect for making jewelry, charms, brooches, magnets, and all kinds of other things! 🍸

Friday, January 9, 5:00 PM: Wow! This month's Ink & Watercolor Illustration is SOLD OUT! Plenty of space in February's class though, so plan ahead and look forward to it! 👨‍🎨

Saturday, January 10, 10:00 AM: Color separation and thinking in layers is one of the less intuitive parts of printmaking, and this is as true for Risograph as it is for other printmaking methods! Break it down old school at Risograph Design on Paper and help your brain understand how it all works! 🖨️

Saturday, January 10, 1:00 PM: Do you work digitally primarily and want to better understand the technicalities of color separation in your native Photoshop? Designing for Risograph in Photoshop will go through it all with you! 💻 NEW CLASS!

Saturday, January 10, 4:00 PM: Make your own pinback buttons at our new Button Making Workshop! What message do you want to put on display? What small piece of art would make you smile every time you see it? Explore the small wearable art format without worrying about the supplies or equipment! 🔴NEW CLASS!

Sunday, January 11, 3:00 PM: Get a crash course in acrylic painting while capturing a beautiful landscape! Push values to up the drama! Dramatic Acrylic Landscapes is an approachable introduction to painting, great as a refresher or for first-time painter! 🌄TWO SPOTS LEFT.

Sunday, January 11, 7:15 PM: Time is always strange when the numbers change, but it's hard to believe it's only been a year? Channel your feelings into action and find little ways to resist at Riff Raff League. FREE MEETUP.
Book Spotlight: My Favorite Thing is Monsters
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the 2-part fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography.

Karen is trying to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, we discover how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge...
New & Restocked!
Not much arrived last week (holidays n' stuff, u know), but we've got a LOT of product orders in transit. Shipments we're hoping will arrive this week include... *DEEP BREATH*... 

Brushes and brush sets, watercolor ground, water brushes, Copic Ciao, MORE MICRONS including non-black Microns, other Sakura (like Gelly Roll!), Faber Castel, various palettes, portable water cups, M. Graham, scratchboard, clay board, oil pastel sets, colored conte crayons, various sketchpads and lots of sketchbooks, newsprint, Hahnemuhle, cold press blocks, illustration board, gansai tambi sets, gouache sets, Deleter, Tombow, glass dip pens, Rhodia, 2026 planners, various journals, and SO MUCH MOREEEEEEEEEEEE.

Keep an eye out!! 
SNEAK PEEK
Here's a sneak peek at one of the new watercolors that will debut in January's mystery boxes though!

Sign up by the 15th to get a box this month! You can get a one-time box or start a subscription to save!
Look Ahead!
Our after school teen program is starting again, now with some NEW 5-week series like All Kinds of Anatomy and Beginning Painting! This program is free/pay-what-you-want, but advance registration is REQUIRED!
Monday, January 12, 6:00 PM: It's the mid-month Monday session of our twice-monthly QUeer ARTists meetup, QU-ART! Bring in whatever you're working on and get some art time in while hanging out with fellow queers! 🏳️‍🌈 FREE MEETUP.

Tuesday, January 13, 5:00 PM: Want to dip your toe into acrylic painting? Would your cat child make the perfect subject? Swap cat photos and stories with everyone while diving into basic acrylic skills at Acrylic Painting Cats! 😺

Wednesday, January 14, 3:30 PM: Our After School program for TEENS is back for the semester with FIVE different 5-week series focusing on a variety of topics. Our first series, running from January 14-February 11, is ALL KINDS OF ANATOMY! Learning how to draw people and animals doesn't have to be scary! Learn how to break down living forms into simple shapes, then learn how to start building your own art style! 🕺FREE/PAY WHAT YOU WANT.

Wednesday, January 14, 6:00 PM: This month's Watercolor for Everyone is SOLD OUT, but you can sign up for February's! 💧

Thursday, January 15, 3:30 PM: Our After School program for KIDS is also back, now on Thursdays! This semester, the kids program will comprise one-off classes. Topics will still vary, but there's no set schedule for now! Feel free to try one out and see if your kid likes it before signing up for more! 🎨FREE/PAY WHAT YOU WANT.

Thursday, January 15, 6:00 PM: It can be hard to find time to write among the hustle and bustle of day-to-day life. Schedule time for poetry at Part-Time Poets' Club and find inspiration and camaraderie with fellow poets, too! 💻 FREE MEETUP.

Friday, January 16, 8:00 PM: Start the year off with a refresher on foundations, or maybe explore life drawing for the first time? Our monthly Figure Drawing session is a great way to experience drawing from life, establishing or re-establishing familiarity with form, figure, and anatomy, and just hanging out in a room with fellow artists. ✏️

Saturday, January 17, 10:00 AM: Inking: Brush, Washes, and White Space is a comprehensive crash course on inking with brush. Explore various techniques, brush types, ink dilution and more! 🪥

Saturday, January 17, 2:00 PM: Find out All About Gouache, from how to pronounce it to how to paint with it, and everything in between! 🌲
Our after school KIDS program is also starting up again, now on Thursdays!
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