Secret Studio

12/13/2024

joe hess ❤️‼️

12/13/2024

12/10/2024

Congratulations to Golomb and Ghost Shirt for making the top 10 albums of the year on Matter News!

Here are the local albums I found myself returning to most often this last year.

12/09/2024

Facebook keep marking our posts as spam for some reason I’m not sure we’re just trying to say thank you 😻🙏for the orders (all packed & shipped) and please and thank you order more because there’s plenty of time to get you some more prints/gifts!
Every purchase helps the studio.
🎄We appreciate you so much. If you would like a custom print that is no additional cost. Just get a hold of us.
xo
Happy Holidays



12/09/2024

This Thursday

12/09/2024

We loved having Katie Hofacker in the gallery this year. Here is her wonderful artist Q & A:

When did you know you were an artist?
From the age of about 6, I would sit and draw or paint for hours on end. Hours would go by, but it only felt like minutes to me. And my mom was a painter, so she encouraged and fostered a love of creative pursuits, for which I will always feel an immense sense of gratitude towards her.

What is your typical creative process?
I usually start with an idea. Frequently these ideas are to do with a personal experience, or a book I’ve read, movie I’ve seen, or song I’ve heard. Then I create a sketch. After the sketch, I sort through my collage materials, pulling pieces out that match the colors of the areas I will be filling. Layers of paint, paper, and gel gloss medium are combined to create my pieces. I love using vintage items for the collage areas, such as old encyclopedias or atlas pages.

Who are your favorite artists?
Locally, my favorite artists are Deborah Griffing, Cody Miller, and Marcus Blackwell. Beyond these local artists some other favorites are Julien Pacaud, who is a French digital collage artist, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian painter, architect, and printmaker. Fun fact: this past year a couple purchased one of my larger originals, and I was floored when they told me they were hanging their new piece of mine next to their Hundertwasser!!

What is a secret of the universe?
I am a strong believer in the universe. I believe that you get back what you put in (with the exception of terrible historical events that have marginalized some people and caused grief and pain through no fault of their own). I try to flood the universe with as much good as I can, in the hopes that the universe will recycle that good, and put some universal good back out into the world for everyone around me.

What have you been loving lately?
I have been doing some volunteer work and have been greatly enjoying that. As a person who has been placed in a position of privilege entirely through the luck of being born a white woman, I have been trying to use that position to help others who may not have been born into such a privileged position. To quote Martin Luther King, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

What is an artist?
An artist is a person who, against all odds, feels compelled to create. A person who cannot help but to create. An artist is a person whose unique creative recipe is followed to make a thing exist that did not exist before, and has the capacity to change the world with their work.

12/07/2024

Let's try that again. We were marked SPAM bc we had too much info in a post? ok. We will do many posts today. LOL. First of all, please do your local shopping here. All 20% off:

12/06/2024

12/12 7pm The Poets are coming!
SAVE the DATE
ADAM GELLINGS
NATHAN LIPPS 🔥🔥

12/05/2024

Proud of you all Sweeney's Walnut Street Tavern ❤️

https://matternews.org/community/development/on-development-another-way-of-looking-at-franklinton/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0ww26s9G7sUV3Z6jNdjs4e4obIQPcKS4I516zKgD-IgscAkEw5s827CrQ_aem_E5HFBO4FZf76XvudDy

It would be easy for Jim Sweeney and Blake Compton of Walnut Street Partners to level the dozen or so remaining worker houses on a short, narrow block of Walnut Street and put up a couple of typical, boxy “five-over-ones” with tax abatements. But that’s not their vision.

12/04/2024

is such a creative genius— we will miss her work when it comes down this week. we will have a little Q&A and some more information on where to catch her next tomorrow.

11/30/2024

NEW prints in the store! ‼️
link in bio
Super sweet gifts to support your local art and music studio xo

11/29/2024

New prints!
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11/21/2024

Souled American 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥