Upcoming events
Join us for an upcoming event or workshop. Share your creativity with the community at our unique art space in Uptown, Seattle.
Volunteer Orientation
New and returning volunteers are invited to join us for a potluck-style volunteer info session. Bring your favorite snack or dish!
First time volunteering?
Fill out our volunteer form!
Uptown Art Walk
Join us for the closing of our November exhibit comfi.space at the monthly Uptown Art Walk. Free and open to all ages.
Extended Figure Drawing
Join us for 2 hours of figure drawing with a nude extended pose at The Fishbowl.
Co-Create Cafe
Join us for our monthly Sunday afternoon drop in art sesh! Bring your works in progress and dive back in while immersed in art. This event is free and open to the public. Grab a seat or easel at the table and get back into the groove with fellow Fishbowl community artists. Bring friends, bring snacks!
Closing Reception and Community Circle: Soft Side of Hope
Join us as we close out our holiday show where unveiling is the name of the game!
Closing Reception: Unwrapped
Join us as we close out our holiday show where unveiling is the name of the game!
Artist Circle Talk: Unwrapped
We’re bringing back a Fishbowl classic! Back by popular demand, we will be doing another holiday show where unveiling is the name of the game!
Co-Create Cafe
Join us for our monthly Sunday afternoon drop in art sesh! Bring your works in progress and dive back in while immersed in art. This event is free and open to the public. Grab a seat or easel at the table and get back into the groove with fellow Fishbowl community artists. Bring friends, bring snacks!
Cyanotype Workshop
Cyanotype is an early photographic printing process that creates beautiful, deep blue prints using UV light. In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll learn how to use cyanotypes to design your own holiday cards! No prior experience is required—this class is perfect for newcomers, as well as those who have taken my intro courses and want to explore the process further. After a 30-minute demonstration on how cyanotypes work, you'll have 2 hours of open studio time to experiment with various materials and create your own unique cards. All materials, including cyanotype chemicals, card stock, and basic supplies, will be provided. You’re also welcome to bring your own items—such as leaves, flowers, or other objects—to experiment with and make your cards truly one-of-a-kind. Depending on the class size, you can expect to create up to 5 cards during the workshop.
Everyone is encouraged to bring in items they think would be fun to use for composition.
Things to consider bringing!
Bring in objects you would like to experiment compositions with. Remember this process is created by the shadows of objects so color doesn't matter.
Things to consider: fun silhouettes, see through or translucent objects, Playing with scale and fun edges. Things that lay flat are going to print differently than 3D objects. Both are fun to play with!
Paper Space Collage
Have you ever wanted to collage your little heart out? Then this is the Sunday crafternoon that you need! All materials will be supplied, show up, learn a new craft and then create a book of your choosing! Want a homemade sketchbook? Want to make a cute lil' scrapbook? Need a place to store your FujiFilm Polaroids? Let's Craft Together with PaperSpace! $15 door/online!
Thanksgiving @ The Fishbowl
What better way to celebrate turkey day than to be with our community? Bring a dish, a friend, your dog, your neighbor, your half made sweater, that giant beanbag, a pack of cards. Come gobble, be merry, get crafty, and more! Werewolves, anyone? 5/5:30ish to whenever people get tired and go home.
Co-Create Cafe
Join us for our monthly Sunday afternoon drop in art sesh! Bring your works in progress and dive back in while immersed in art. This event is free and open to the public. Grab a seat or easel at the table and get back into the groove with fellow Fishbowl community artists. Bring friends, bring snacks!
Closing: comfi.space
Join us for the closing of “comfi.space” at the Fishbowl in Uptown! This exhibit transforms everyday living room objects into memories of queer pleasure, represented by the featured artists' pieces.
Uptown Art Walk
Join us for the closing of our November exhibit comfi.space at the monthly Uptown Art Walk. Free and open to all ages.
Queer Figure Drawing
The Fishbowl is excited to be hosting Queer Figure Drawing organized by Elva Bennet every other Wednesday evening. Tickets available through the QFD website.
Cyanotype Workshop
Join us for a Cyanotype workshop at the Fishbowl on 11/17 from 1-4, tickets $35+, to explore art inspired by the light with our teacher Rae Hood!
Cyanotype photography is a camera-less technique that involves laying an object on paper coated with a solution of iron salts before exposing it to UV light and washing with water to create stunning white and Prussian blue images.
Rae is an artist, plant lover and queer portrait photographer based in Seattle. They got their degree in fine arts with a concentration in historical photographic processes in 2013. They rediscovered the cyanotype medium in 2020 when they realized the need to incorporate more play in their creative practice. Their work with their company The Forest Blues is inspired by the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and everything that grows around them.
Tomorrow Release Show
Celebrate the release of Moving in Slow's anticipated single "Tomorrow" with an all-ages, intimate performance. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door.
Extended Figure Drawing
Join us for 2 hours of figure drawing with a nude extended pose at The Fishbowl.
Artist Talk: comfi.space
Join us for the “comfi.space” artist talk featuring a panel of our exhibiting artists at the Fishbowl in Uptown! This exhibit transforms everyday living room objects into memories of queer pleasure, represented by the featured artists' pieces.
Volunteer Meeting
New and returning volunteers are invited to join us for a potluck-style volunteer info session. Bring your favorite snack or dish!
First time volunteering?
Fill out our volunteer form!
Paper Space Collage
Have you ever wanted to collage your little heart out? Then this is the Sunday crafternoon that you need! All materials will be supplied, show up, learn a new craft and then create a book of your choosing! Want a homemade sketchbook? Want to make a cute lil' scrapbook? Need a place to store your FujiFilm Polaroids? Let's Craft Together with PaperSpace! $15 door/online!
Queer Speed Friending
Join us at the Fishbowl for Queer Speed Friending, featuring an icebreaker question game that will make connecting seamless! Enjoy an assortment of N/A beverages, see artwork from comfi.space, our exhibit on Queer Pleasure + Intimacy, and make new friends. Come curious and ready to learn about your fellow queer community!
Purchase tickets here.
Queer Figure Drawing
The Fishbowl is excited to be hosting Queer Figure Drawing organized by Elva Bennet every other Wednesday evening. Tickets available through the QFD website.
Opening Reception : comfi.space
Join us for the opening of “comfi.space” this November at the Fishbowl in Uptown! This exhibit transforms everyday living room objects into memories of queer pleasure, represented by the featured artists' pieces.
Closing and Artist Talk: Liminal Spaces
Join us for the closing of “Liminal Spaces” at the Fishbowl in Uptown! This interactive art show inspires our community to connect in transitive space with creative and hopeful beginnings. We will also be having an artist talk featuring 3 of our artists.
Co-Create Cafe
Join us for our monthly Sunday afternoon drop in art sesh! Bring your works in progress and dive back in while immersed in art. This event is free and open to the public. Grab a seat or easel at the table and get back into the groove with fellow Fishbowl community artists. Bring friends, bring snacks!
Call for Art Due: comfi.space
Artist Call: comfi.space November 2024
“Pleasure is a pathway for accessing sexual liberation, and pleasure activism is a means to resist the heteronormative, traditionally gendered narrative. Pleasure[…] and intimacy with ourselves and others can be both healing and powerful” (brown, 2019).
comfi.space is a call to showcase a new sense of familiarity and hope that queer kinship and pleasure brings and create new connections through radical imagination and care. We encourage artists to channel memories, whether in current or past relationships (platonic, familial, etc) into spatial and visual interpretations that are reminiscent of spaces that we find liberation through queer pleasure/intimacy. We urge artists to explore new sensory/tactile methods to encapsulate the essence of these spaces. Ultimately, we want to uncover what queer pleasure and intimacy can look like and be imagined as, as well as experiment new ways of engaging the audience through feeling like incorporating spatial and tactile mediums. I want to also note that this is not limited to romantic pleasure and intimacy.
This exhibit transforms everyday living room objects into memories of queer pleasure, represented by the featured artists' pieces. Some questions artists can ponder: How does radical pleasure transform the way we see ordinary spaces in our lives? What feelings does it evoke? How can this piece serve as evidence that our pleasure once existed in this space?
This call is open to artists of all mediums, of all experience levels, with priority given to queer emerging artists of color.
A Pinterest board has also been created to help spark ideas: https://pin.it/5sgjgtpNa
Guest curated by: Ashley Wang
Important Dates:
Submissions due by: Sunday, October 20th, 11:59pm
Artists Notified: Wednesday evening, October 23rd
Artwork drop off dates: 10/24 - 10/27 TBD
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1st, 2024 6:00 - 8:00pm
Closing Reception & Artist Panel: Thursday, November 21st, 2024 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Artwork pick up dates: 11/29-12/6 TBD
To Submit:
Extended Figure Drawing
Join us for 2 hours of figure drawing with a nude extended pose at The Fishbowl.
Paper Space Collage
Have you ever wanted to collage your little heart out? Then this is the Sunday crafternoon that you need! All materials will be supplied, show up, learn a new craft and then create a book of your choosing! Want a homemade sketchbook? Want to make a cute lil' scrapbook? Need a place to store your FujiFilm Polaroids? Let's Craft Together with PaperSpace! $15 door/online!
Volunteer Meeting
New and returning volunteers are invited to join us for a potluck-style volunteer info session. Bring your favorite snack or dish!
First time volunteering?
Fill out our volunteer form!
Extended Figure Drawing
Join us for 2 hours of figure drawing with a nude extended pose at The Fishbowl.
Closing and Artist Talk: Sunbleached
Join us for the closing of “sunbleached” is an immersive exhibition that embodies the vitality, radiance, and passion of Summer. We will also be having an artist talk featuring 3 of our artists. This September Group Show captures the essence of the summer season, featuring artists using a variety of mediums. Join us for the closing of our show at the Fishbowl in Uptown.