Special Event

The Public Studio is a creative day of open, drop-in making at 421. Four stations will be set up facilitated by four experienced practitioners. Move between stations at your own pace, try something new, and leave with something you make with your own hands.

Station 1: Tile Painting with Parneet Pahwa Parneet invites participants to paint on her pre-fired clay tiles, exploring color and mark-making to develop their own motifs and visual language. Participants leave with a painted tile of their own.

Station 2: Petal Fold Zine-Making with Arnold Barnetto Arnold guides participants through the petal fold, a zine-making technique that opens and blooms like a flower. After a walkthrough of the folding and scoring technique, participants take full creative ownership, moving between a collage station stocked with found materials and printed ephemera and a letter stamping station to compose a zine of their own.

Station 3: Roll the Rule with Nagham Hamoush An open printmaking station where participants select from an array of pre-carved linocut stamps drawn from Mesopotamian motifs, designed by Nagham Hamoush. Participants roll and press their chosen stamps onto any object they like, whether paper, tote bags, t-shirts, or anything else they want to upcycle. Each stamp comes with a postcard detailing its origin and cultural context, so participants leave with both a printed object and a fragment of living history.

Station 4: Creative Survival Kit with The Memo Club Together with Sumayya, Zoe, and Nada from The Memo Club, participants assemble their own Creative Survival Kit, a personal, portable collection of analog tools and materials designed to support a more grounded, creative everyday life. The session activates each element through a series of short, playful exercises moving between writing, stamp-making, scrapbooking, and postcard-making.

Participants leave with at least one handmade object and an experience of art-making as something slow, accessible, and genuinely open to all.

Accessibility & Participation

Open to all ages. 

No prior experience required.

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