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Art Retail Therapy, New York, NY (2026)

10/14/2026

Gouache Botanicals Class🪻Friday 10/16 @ 7pm
📍ART. 84-26 37th Ave. Queens
Led by the mega talented Christopher Gomez

Take advantage of learning the foundational skills to use gouache from Chris, an illustrator, educator, and comic artist. Gouache is a favorite medium for many artists as it creates the perfect baby between a richly pigmented paint and an easily moveable layered. water-based paint.

$30 gets you all materials needed, just bring yourself! And a friend or two. 🎟️ tix on site or in-store. You can also dm us for a link to pay (whatever makes it easier for you).

See you Friday, cuties!

10/04/2026

🦇OCTOBER @ ART (🎟️ tix on site)
84-26 37th Ave. Jackson Heights
*be your own boo & sign yourself up for a new hobby*

Mondays 7pm: N**e Figure Drawing
Tuesdays 6:30pm: Oil Painting Studies
Wednesdays (every other) 7:45pm: Crochet Classes 🧶
Saturdays 9 & 10:30am: Kids Art Classes
Sundays 3pm: Watercolor Workshops
Sundays 4pm: Sketching Classes, Hatching

Puff & Paint: Creepy Crawlers 🪱🪲🕷️ 10/23 @ 7:30pm

Gouache Botanicals Class 🌸🪻10/16 @ 7pm
Christopher Gomez

Pumpkin Carving & Costume Swap 🎃 10/24 @ 1-3pm
*byo pumpkin, some available*

Meetups:
10.3 Junk Journaling (next 11.20) 7pm
10.28 Fiber Crafters Club 7:30pm
10.20 Comic Artists Meetup 7:30pm

09/20/2026

Puff & Paint: Dragon Ball Za 😫
Sunday 9.27 @ 7-9:30pm ish 🎟️ in bio
📌ART. 84-26 37th Ave. Jackson Heights

You already know. 420 paint nights post. Always late, never early. A chill way to spend a Sunday night. It’s a cozy art hang where you get to come in, roll, 💨, yap, and make a paint mess that you don’t have to pick up.

Swipe for Sunday romántico darks vibes & past sessions.

With an end time that gets you into bed cozied tf up for good sleep. It’s like a primo hang so bring all the chisme, your faves, your crush, y a pintar unas hermosuras, bbs!

21+ duh. BYOC and byob. We give all art materials, instruction, and usually a gift bc we’re latinos immigrant kids and therefore happy hosts 🐕🐕

Somebody walked by the shop and said this was the most 30 year old thing they’d ever seen. And… you’re wrong. But I added some poorly cropped inspo videos and Bobby Pulido to make you right 💖

09/10/2026

September at ART cuties! 🏋🏻‍♀️🎨 (better late than never)
📍ART. 84-26 37th Ave. Jackson Heights
🎟️Tix live on link in bio.

Swipe for how we’re feeling after this summer and snippets from classes and silliness 🐈

💨September marks the return of the living room vibes Puff & Paint (with Goku, Vegeta & 🎶 las peligrosas as inspo). 🗓️ 9.19 @ 7:30pm

*Weekly (or monthly) Classes*
✍🏽Mondays 7pm: N**e Figure Drawing
🏙️Tuesdays 6:30pm: Evening Oil Studies
👩🏽‍🎨Sundays 3pm: Watercolor Workshops
🎨Saturdays 9&10:30am: Big Kids Art Classes
🧶Wednesdays 7:45pm: Crochet Classes
(Every other Wednesday)

*Special Classes for the Month*
💨Sat. 9.19, 7:30pm
Puff & Paint: DragonBall Z (420 paint bite)

✏️Wed. 9.23, 6:30pm
Hatching Workshop: Sketching Buildings

📸Wed. 9.30, 5:30pm
Photography Class & Walk

📓Sat. 9.26, 7:30pm
Junk Journaling Workshop & Meetup

*Monthly Meetups*
Comic Artists Meetup (9.15 @ 7pm)
Third Tuesday of the Month

Junk Journaling Queens (9.26 @ 7pm)
Last Saturday of the Month

Fiber Artists Craft Meetup (9.23 @ 7:30pm)
One Wednesday a Month

08/19/2026

✨FREE! Sashiko Embroidery Workshop
🗓️Friday, August 21 @ 7:30pm (dm/call to reserve)
📍ART. 84-26 37th Ave. Jackson Heights

For our community art workshop of the month, we are hosting a Sashiko Embroidery class led by Christopher Gomez and we are excited af! Ages 12+

Come learn Sashiko, a fun & functional technique of visible mending and embroidery for fabrics and clothing. Bring a piece of clothing in need of repair or come and create a sashiko patch that you can use to mend a piece later.

Come through & get to mending cuties!
Limited spots available, call or dm to reserve a spot.
718-406-9444

🎶tunes by: Orquesta de La Luz (an iconic Japanese salsa band from the 80s and 90s that was immensely popular in Caribbean adjacent countries and shows the perfect example of cultural exchange that leads to a still strong beloved salsa scene in Japan)

08/18/2026

FREE! 📸 Jackson Heights Photo Walk 8.19 @ 5PM
📍ART (84-26 37th Ave.) meet here for launch

Just Added! Damaris Chamorro will be leading a photo scavenger hunt around the neighborhood tomorrow. In honor of 📷

✨Be here at 5pm sharp!✨

It’s free! Just bring your camera (film, digital, phone, pinhole 😂, or sketchbook if that’s your thing) and go on a prompted scavenger hunt with other photo fans.

08/02/2026

August Classes at ART (84-26 37th Ave. Queens)
🎟️💅🏼 sign up link in bio, cuties!
🇻🇪🇨🇴 DESLIZA PARA DERECHA: VERSION ESPAÑOL

mondays
-SKETCHING WORKSHOPS @ 4pm
-N**E FIGURE DRAWING @ 7pm (ongoing)

tuesdays
-OIL STUDIES: IMPRESSIONISM @ 6:30pm (starts this wk)

wednesdays
-CROCHET CLASSES @ 7:45pm (aug. 5 and 19)

saturdays
-BIG KIDS ART CLUB @ 9am *and/or* 10:30am (ongoing)

sundays
-ACRYLIC CLASSES: URBAN FLORA & BLDGS @ 3pm

last saturday of the month
-QUEENS JUNK JOURNAL MEETUP w/ Liz

✨Special Workshops or Classes for August✨
(more info and flyers soon!)

🔴 FREE! Community Art Class: Sashiko Stitching
🗓️ Friday, August 21 @ 7:30pm
Japanese visible mending technique - stitching that is both functional & decorative w/ artist Christopher Gomez

🟡 DIY is Punk: Upcycling (Tear Up Tees)
🗓️ Wednesday, August 26 @ 7pm
learn alt vs fast fashion. reduce waste, give your clothes a new life, tearing, painting, stitching with artist, punk-goth girlie Inkwell with fashion show & photo shoot

🔵 Know Your Rights w/ ICE w/ Angry Asian Womxn
🗓️ Sunday, August 23 @ 5:30pm
Learn to identify ICE, what to do if stopped, and what to do if you see ICE presence in your area. Free refreshments, food, 🧊 watch whistle packs, and immigrant resources.
In English y en español

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Clases de ARTe en agosto
📍84-26 37th Ave. Jackson Heights
🎟️ enlaces ya activos en nuestra bio

lunes
TALLERES DE DIBUJO @ 4pm
DIBUJO DE FIGURA al DESNUDO @ 7pm

martes
TALLER DE PINTURA AL ÓLEO @ 6:30pm

miércoles
CLASES DE CROCHET @ 7:45pm (ago. 5 y 19)

sábados
CLASE DE ARTE para NIÑXS @ 9am y 10:30am

domingos
TALLER DE PINTURA ACRÍLICA @ 3pm

último sábado de cada mes
“BASURARIO” (Junk Journaling) @ 7pm

Talleres y Clases Especiales para Agosto

🔴 TALLER COMUNITARIO: BORDADO SASHIKO
🗓️ viernes, 21 de agosto @ 7:30pm
técnica de bordado japonésa donde al remendar tu ropa, también la decoras

🟡 DIY: Personalización y Transformación de Ropa Usada
🗓️ miércoles, 26 de agosto @ 7pm
aprende de una artista y cosplayer local como darle nueva vida a tu ropa y como el recicl

07/21/2026

JUNK JOURNAL MEETUP 🌐👑
Sat. July 25/Sab. 25 de Julio @ 7PM
📌ART (84-26 37th Ave. Jackson Heights)

$15 byo journal - scrapbooking materials provided
*Traigan su📓 y nosotros le damos material decorativo*

Join Liz as she guides us through a night of creation, memories, visioning, and silliness making your own junk journal! Bring something to journal in and Lizzy will have a curated selection of fun decorative goodies 💖 and prompts to help you start your junk journal path.

See you soon cuties! 🎨
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Hay algunos que le dicen “basurario”… pero hacer de tus cuadernos y diarios un lugar exploratorio para honrar memorias, crear cuentos, planear tu año, o simplemente crear una estética, es un arte.

Tráete un cuaderno y la artista Liz nos va a guiar por una serie de ejercicios y con un sinfín de artículos para decorar (también puedes traer algo que quieras usar en la libreta) para aprender cómo componer las hojas de tu nuevo “junk journal” 🎨☀️ 7pm este sábado 25 julio

07/15/2026

TEXTURES! Spackle Paint for Young Artists (5-13)
This Saturday, July 18 starting at 1pm
📍ART. 84-26 37th Ave. Jackson Heights

Join us and artist, Shormi Uddin as we guide young artists in exploring making their acrylic paint textured and designing patterns and space for them to make a piece of art that is not only visually striking of texturally complex.

All materials included of course!

If you wanna join your kiddo, we have a special for parent and kid combo of $50. Come thru!

07/09/2026

💙 Cyanotype workshop with Damaris Chamorro
☀️ Sunday, July 12 & July 19, 3PM
📌 ART, 8426 37th Ave. Jackson Heights ($35)

🎟️ Purchase tickets on website or in store.

Damaris is an Ecuadorean American powerhouse of an artist and really dives into the reasoning and methods of every medium she teaches. Don’t miss out on this! Two Sundays! For adults and artists ages 12ish & up. ⚡️

Join us the next two Sundays to learn, explore and create your own Cyanotypes at ART. Cyanotypes are a very fun and accessible art form that lets you play with shadows, angles, composition and shapes. It’s where we get the word “blueprint”. An early form of developing prints from already existing objects - aka lowkey photography.

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