Corazón Flamenco 🫶🏽💃🏻
and more ways to connect with each other through art 🫱🏽🫲🏼
Hey, Beautiful!
I’ve got four artsy-craftsy events this month that I want to invite you to, plus a reminder. 🧐 (Spoiler: it’s about my 26% off sale 🖼️.) Get ready to mark your calendar.
If you’re outside the Portland area, you have permission to scroll to the reminder at the bottom. 😉👇🏽 Here’s an additional reminder that anything we do to build connection is, by nature, resisting fascism. Art matters.
👉🏽 1. Corazón Flamenco - Friday, February 13th, 6:30 - 9:00-ish
On Friday evening, Feb. 13th, I’ll be hanging out in the gymnasium of NE Portland’s Kennedy School (a fab McMenamin’s venue) for a FREE event called Corazón Flamenco. While enjoying a flamenco dance and music performance by Espacio Flamenco and friends, please come by my All Hands Art table to make your own Valentine/Gal-entine/Pal-entine (is that a thing?) cards. 💌✂️🖍️
You can also peruse the artwork, doodle books, and small gifties I’ll be offering for purchase. Sugarpep Truffles will be selling sweet treats nearby!
We’d love to see you there. 💗
👉🏽 2. Doodle & Draw - Thursday, February 19th, 1:30 - 4:00 pm
Ok, so I’ve planned this workshop in my studio, to be held on the third Thursday of each month, called Doodle & Draw. I love (and teach) doodling as an intentional way to unlock and explore your creativity. I love (and teach) drawing as a vehicle for learning to truly see what you’re looking at, trusting your senses in order to override the ideas the world has given you about what you’re supposed to see.
Doodle & Draw combines brief activities in both modes, and then time for you to work on a doodle/drawing of your own.
The next one is scheduled for Thursday, February 19th from 1:30 - 4:00 pm, Pacific Time. Honestly, sign-ups have been lagging, and I’m guessing it’s because of the midday time slot. I’m gonna give it another shot this month, though. Please don’t delay in signing up if you’re interested. You can do that right here.
👉🏽 3. Mixed-Media Mosaics at the ReBuilding Center - Sunday, February 22nd, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
I’ve been teaching creative reuse classes at the ReBuilding Center for four-plus years now, a neighborhood institution with the spot-on bumper sticker slogan, “I love that place! 🔨”
Join me on Sunday the 22nd from 10 am - 1 pm for Mixed Media Mosaics, a delightful workshop where you let your imagination roam freely through my collection of whimsical do-dads as you assemble your one-of-a-kind art piece. No art experience is required, and if you have your own budding collection or random do-dads, you’re welcome to bring them along! Registration through RBC is here.
Look for a two-day Making Tile Mosaics class at RBC this March.
👉🏽 4. Open Make - Saturday, February 28th, 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Our first two monthly Open Make sessions have been loads of fun and full of exuberant crafting. This past Saturday we had folks making cards, grouting mosaics, and exploring brand new sets of oil pastels to see what those mysterious little color sticks can do.
The next Open Make session is on Saturday, February 28th (it’s the last Sat. of each month) from 1 - 4 pm. The idea is that you bring your own project to work on, and you actually get it done because it’s on your calendar, you’ve paid $25 to be here, and there are other people around who are moving their projects forward. Plus tea and snacks. ☺️ Click here to reserve your spot. (There’s only space for 5 people.)
Another option is to come empty-handed and join me in that month’s optional activity, which for February is noodling around with watercolors. There’s an extra materials fee for using my stuff, but I have plenty to share, and for a variety of potential projects.
👉🏽 REMINDER! The “26% Off to usher in 2026 Art Sale” is on through Sunday, February 15th. A select number of my original paintings and collages (read: the ones I was able to get photographed and posted in my online shop 😬) are marked down temporarily. Now that the bustle of the holidays is over, maybe it’s time to liven up your walls!?!
I gave a fuller tour of artworks on sale (and my one rule for purchasing them) here.
Note that the sale applies to original artworks, not prints or books or cards this time. Here are a couple of samples, below. Click here to see more.
Lastly, I had gotten quite far today in writing a thought piece about this moment in time that we’re currently in… and then realized I had all these time-sensitive events I needed to tell you about. That other piece is coming. 🤓💻
For now let me remind us all that anything we do that builds community, that sparks our imagination, that forges connections human-to-human, human-to-Earth, human-to-animal, human-to-Divine-Creativity, human-to-our-Deep Self, is a form of resistance to fascism.
The powers that (wanna)be would prefer it if we all stayed cowering in our silos, glued to our devices, doom-scrolling, feeling afraid and disconnected. So we will do the opposite of that!
💗🖍️🎉👶🏽💃🏻🎶🖼️🥂🤩✨😘
In solidarity,
-Pam