Check out the jam-packed calendar and don’t forget you can always Click the button below to view our Google Calendar where you can easily subscribe or copy events to your personal calendar.

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Feel free to save/screenshot, share, or print our October calendar file above so you don’t miss a Guild event this month!

EVENT DETAILS

• We are starting the month off strong with the Kzoo Mail Snails! On October 1st from 6 - 8pm we’ll be making, writing and sending postcards for World Postcard Day!

• Our monthly Studio Reset night is October 6th from 6 - 7:30pm. No open studio this night as we’ll be cleaning and organizing the studio. Please join us for any amount of time to help us keep our space feeling great!

• On the 10th we’ll be joining the Washington Avenue Arts & Culture Crawl from 12 - 4pm! Think Art Hop but localized to the Edison neighborhood. No open studio this day - come experience the crawl!

• Cosplay Costuming Club is October 11th from 10am - 1pm - all supplies and tools are free for you to use! Not sure what to work on? Explore costume ideas, works-in-progress or just stop by to meet people, dream up characters and create. Feel free to bring your sewing machines along or use our machines, as available.

• Fiber Arts Club happens October 12th from 6 - 8pm Even if you are not a fiber artist, you are welcome to join and create. Bring your own project or start a new one with the supplies available in Guild.

• ASL Craft & Chat Club is happening October 16th and 30th from 11am - 1pm. Join us for an afternoon of connection, creativity, and community in ASL (American Sign Language). This meetup is open to Deaf community members, CODAs, interpreters, students, and ASL learners who want to build relationships and practice in a welcoming environment. Use Guild’s free crafting supplies or bring your own project🤟🏼

• Collage Crew Kzoo will be on October 17th from 10am - 1pm during Open Studio. Stop by and make some art with us! Supplies provided!

• On October 18th from 1pm - 3:30pm, join us for Expressive Arts Therapy Group. *Advanced sign up is required for this one!* Creativity is a basic human need, and creative expression can help regulate the nervous system while connecting us to ourselves and others. Join intern counselor Bree Bird in exploring how creativity and expression can support mental health and well-being. Together, we’ll explore mental health and well-being through expressive arts, using drawing, painting, sewing, building, collage, singing, dancing, writing, and other forms of creative expression that may arise. A mix of facilitated exercises and personal freedom of expression will be used.

• On October 24th from 10am - 12pm we will have our ALL AGES Open Studio as well as a gallery of our Cosplay Clubs costumes! Fiddle Leaf Cafe will be hosting their annual Pumpkin Carving Contest after Open Studio so be sure to stick around for that too!

• The next Fermentation Workshop with Sara Rio on October 25th from 1pm - 2:30pm will be making Ruby Curtido; a Salvadorian coleslaw with red cabbage and jalapenos! This workshop series is completely funded by a grant from the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo (@acgkalamazoo). It is totally free and all materials are provided. *Sign up in advance is required!* Look for the link in Sara’s instagram bio closer to the date of the event.

• Our next Basics of Sewing Class is October 25th from 3:30 - 6:30pm. Sign-up in advance via a lottery system for this one. There is limited space available. Sign up here!

As always, please let us know if you have any feedback, questions or ideas by emailing us at guildkzoo@gmail.com!

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🖤 Hosts of Guild

Before we begin planning our second year, we’d love to hear about your experience in our free community art studio over the past year.

Please tap the button below or click here to answer a few quick questions:

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Your input will help us understand what’s working, what could be better, and what you’d love to see in the year ahead.

Thank you for your time,

🖤 Hosts of Guild

You may have noticed that we’re reaching you through our revamped website and new email setup. We made the switch to help keep costs and admin time down — we’re completely volunteer-run, after all!

Diving into September, here are 3 calendar highlights (scroll down for the full calendar and event details):

🚃 Catch the FREE Art Hop trolley ride to Friday’s Open Studio (9/4)

🧽 Volunteers Needed — Drop In Tuesday Night (9/8)

🚨 Guild will be closed over Labor Day weekend (9/5-9/7)

As always, please let us know if you have any feedback, questions or ideas by emailing us at guildkzoo@gmail.com!

🖤 Hosts of Guild

UPCOMING EVENTS

Feel free to save/screenshot, share, or print our September calendar file below so you don’t miss a Guild event this month!

Click the button below to view our Google Calendar where you can easily add/subscribe or copy events to your personal calendar.

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FEATURED EVENT DETAILS

🚃 Catch a FREE trolley ride to Friday night’s Open Studio (9/4)

The Arts Council has scheduled 3 trolleys to run during Kalamazoo’s September Art Hop through Downtown, Vine, Northside, and Edison — and Jerico is one of the stops!

Once you arrive, explore the other Jerico studios and join us at Guild for ALL AGES Open Studio from 5–8 PM. Get creative with our free art supplies and tools, and make whatever you like. Visitors under the age of 16 should be accompanied by an adult.

✨ Volunteers Needed — Drop In Tuesday Night (9/8)!

Join fellow Guild community members for our monthly studio deep-clean!

On Tuesday night, September 8th, let’s work together to reset the studio! We can certainly use all the help we can get to tidy, vacuum, clean tables and chairs, organize excess materials, etc. Drop-in whenever you’re available from 5pm to 8pm!

EVENT SIGN-UP LINKS

🎨 Expressive Arts Therapy Group (Sunday, 9/20)

Sign-up Here (Required) | FREE, Ages 16+, no prior experience with therapy needed

Creativity is a basic human need, and creative expression can help regulate the nervous system while connecting us to ourselves and others. Join intern counselor Bree Bird in exploring how creativity and expression can support mental health and well-being.

Together, we’ll explore mental health and well-being through expressive arts, using drawing, painting, sewing, building, collage, singing, dancing, writing, and other forms of creative expression that may arise. A mix of facilitated exercises and personal freedom of expression will be used.

Fermentation Workshop (Sunday, 9/27)

Sign-up Here (Required) | This class is part of a FREE workshop series led by Sara Rio (@sarario_ceramics) exploring the art and science of fermentation. Participants will dive into fermentation techniques using fresh vegetables while learning through guided, practical experience.

All tools, supplies and vegetables provided. This program is funded by a grant through the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo (@acgkalamazoo).

We’ve all had quite busy summers and so you may have noticed a slow-down in our programming, but don’t worry! We are working hard to put together all sorts of fun things for the fall and winter.

In August, stop by for an Open Studio day or join us for one of our meetups (see the calendar below) and be sure to check out our new Zine Library too! Please note that during our All Ages Open Studio, children and young teens are welcome to visit with an adult chaperone (GUILD is normally ages 16+).

As a completely volunteer run space, we are doing our best to maintain a balance between keeping the space open and accessible as much as possible and not overextending ourselves in the process.

Speaking of: we are hosting a CLEAN THE STUDIO DAY! Please join us this Saturday, August 1st, after Open Studio from 1 - 3pm to clean and organize the studio.

Thank you!

🖤 Your Guild Hosts

THIS MONTH’S CALENDAR

Click the button below to open Guild’s Google Calendar where you can easilyadd/subscribe or copy events to your personal calendar.

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Alternatively, free to save/screenshot, share, or print our August calendar file below so you don’t miss a Guild event this month!

Register for Workshop

This workshop is part of a monthly fermentation workshop series funded by a grant through the The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo (@acgkalamazoo).

We look forward to meeting—or catching up with—you in the coming weeks!

View Guild's July Calendar

Some July event highlights:

• Join us at our Fiber Arts Club Summer Projector Series Monday nigh (7/6, 6–8 p.m.) to crank out creativity while Whip It plays on the big screen.

• Did you see we’re hosting an Upcycle Bar & Market on the 18th? We’ve dreamt of this since we first opened our doors.

🖤 Hosts of Guild

See below for a digital/wallpaper/printable version of the calendar + more info on many of this month’s events!

*During our All Ages Open Studio, children and young teens are welcome to visit with an adult chaperone (GUILD is normally ages 16+).

We operate in the mindset of radical generosity and, since we opened our doors, have witnessed the magic of how that is reciprocated. If you’ve been here, you know! Thank you.

All Guild events are open to ages 16+

*Children and young teens are welcome to visit Guild with an adult chaperone during our All Ages Open Studio.

Guild operates in the mindset of radical generosity and, since we opened our doors, have witnessed the magic of how that is reciprocated. If you’ve been here, you know! Thank you.

All Guild events are FREE unless noted otherwise!

We operate in the mindset of radical generosity and, since we opened our doors, have witnessed the magic of how that is reciprocated. If you’ve been here, you know! Thank you.

All Guild events are FREE and ages 16+ unless noted otherwise.

We operate in the mindset of radical generosity and, since we opened our doors, have witnessed the magic of how that is reciprocated. If you’ve been here, you know!

More info on this month’s events:

Valentine’s Craft Rave and Fundraiser at Jerico

Drop in for a night of dancing, sipping lattes, and helping a local organization we love. Free crafting supplies will be provided by Guild. Bring a project you’ve been working on, or start a new one! Music provided by DJ Bart Sparkle. Delicious drinks will be available for purchase from Fiddle Leaf Cafe.

This is a community fundraiser for Care Collective of Southwest Michigan. By providing barrier-free access to diapers, baby wipes, and menstrual products to families and young people, Care Collective supports multigenerational well-being. A majority of each ticket sold will be donated to this amazing, local non-profit.

*This event is for adults 18+.

*This event is alcohol-free.