D.I.Y. Art
Pop-Up Craft Tables
Come create & chill with D.I.Y. Arts!
All art supplies and equipment provided
Sparkling drinks, chocolates + yummies to share
Sign up at least 48 hours before each event
Discounted tickets ($5 each) for the first 5 RSVPs
RSVP at bit.ly/DIY-ART2026 for locations and tickets.
Our February-March, June-July, and October-November 2026 events will be held in the Fellowship Hall of the Arcata Presbyterian Church.
Our May 2nd MMIP/MMIW Solidarity Event will be held in the Adorni Center Conference Room, 1011 Waterfront Drive in Eureka.
Our April-May, August-September, and December 2026 events will be held at the Old Town Ink People Lab at 212 G Street, Suite 103 in Eureka.
April 25th at 2pm, Miniature Fantastical Seascapes
May 2nd at 2pm, MMIP/MMIW Solidarity
May 30th at 2pm, MMIP/MMIW Awareness
June 27th at 2pm, Origami Landscapes
July 25th at 2pm, Fruit Bouquets
August 29th at 2pm, Eraser Ink Stamps
September 26th at 2pm, Mini Zines
October 24th at 2pm, Altars in a Tin
November 21st at 2pm, Kirigami
December 19th at 2pm, Tiny Gingerbread Homes
Our Pop-Up Craft Tables are designed to be fun and easy!
Similar to wildly popular events in the Bay Area and NYC, this is our opportunity to gather around a table, share bubbly and get crafty.
D.I.Y. ART is a DreamMaker project of The Ink People.
Our workshops are made possible through grant funding from American Humanist Association, private donors, and the Eureka Cultural Arts District (ECAD), a partnership of the Wiyot Tribe, the Ink People Center for Arts & Culture, Eureka Main Street, and the City of Eureka. ECAD uplifts and amplifies the region’s creatives and culture keepers through grant initiatives, festivals, and community-driven leadership.
D.I.Y. Arts provides fun, inclusive, hands-on, open-access (and low cost) monthly events for the public to engage creatively with mixed media and one another, enjoy refreshments, and take home personal artistic creations.
The pop-ups will be centered around playful, inclusive community engagement.
Our project is a socially-engaged, community-centric innovation that partners with local, small, LGBTQIA+, and minority-owned businesses, community-based organizations, nonprofits, and Tribal/government agencies (e.g., cultural centers and libraries).
We aim to bring together community members in new ways, combining educational awareness around themes like agrobiodiversity (the origins of food), citizen science (iNaturalist surveys), cultural justice (e.g., the MMIW/MMIP crisis), and language revitalization (by local Tribes) with easy, low-stakes crafting and artwork, such as: nature dioramas in recycled mint tins, temporary tattoos in Soulatluk, micro-gingerbread houses, potato stamps, etc.
D.I.Y. Arts aims to provide fun, inclusive, hands-on, open-access (and low cost) monthly events for the public to engage creatively with mixed media and one another, enjoy refreshments, and take home personal artistic creations.
D.I.Y. ART is a DreamMaker project of The Ink People.
Shut Up & Write Weekly Writing Group
D.I.Y. ART now hosts the northern-most SUAW group in California! We invite poets, essayists, professional writers, novelists, and emerging authors who enjoy quiet companionship in a hip location where the bartenders are DJs and most of the patrons are inked. Every Monday, 7-9PM in the Dead Reckoning Tavern at 815 J Street in Arcata.
Shut Up & Write!® is a nonprofit writing initiative that has supported writing communities around the world since 2007. At its core, it is a simple, repeatable practice that helps people write consistently by showing up together, writing side by side, and keeping the experience free of critique, pressure, or performance.
