Come and play with us during our first (and hopefully ongoing) BIPOC Open Studio.

Take a creative pause in your week and tend to your own creative process, in whatever shape and form feels best to you.  BIPOC Open Studio is not facilitated in the traditional sense – no directives or instructions are given. Instead, we'll come into the space, set an intention, create together, and then witness what we have made. 

Art-making materials will be provided, and attendees are welcome to bring personal art supplies. No prior art experience is necessary.

BIPOC Open Studio is for adults (18+) who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.  This offering is free to all participants, but pre-registration is required.  

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Dr. Yasmine Awais is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and credentialed art therapist who has been practicing for 25 years. She believes that making can assist us in self-expression and with understanding ourselves and others. Yasmine loves learning, earning her BFA (photo + printmaking) from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Master of Arts in Art Therapy at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and PhD in Social Welfare at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She recently joined Marist College as their Internship Coordinator & Professional Lecturer of Psychology. 

Grace Lo is the owner of Supplies for Creative Living, an artist, a landscape architect and lover of all creatures.  She thinks that making things by hand is magic, and loves tending a shop and space that shares that love.  When she's not wrangling people and things at the shop, she likes to hang out in the woods, at the edge of the sea or in her hammock.