Join your creative friends on the first Tuesday of each month for a casual gathering. This happy hour is a time to relax and connect with designers, illustrators, photographers, writers, artists, filmmakers, tattoo artists, musicians, dancers, choreographers, landscape architects, printers, and all around creative types. It's a time where you don't have to be "on." It's fun. We promise.

Sometimes you just got to get out and sit with others while you work! This summer, we’ll be at Stoup on Thursday afternoons, getting work done on our laptops. Besides paying gigs, this can be a great time to work on your marketing, write a project proposal, or do some research about that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

Join Partners in Print for an artist talk with visiting artist Rachel Simmons, creator of the community art project, Flock. Rachel is a book artist, educator, and activist. In this talk, she’ll share how those facets enable her to embrace experimentation and thrive while working on collaborative projects. Through those parallel processes, she finds freedom and exciting new perspectives. Rachel will have prints for sale after the presentation. Register here.

Join Mini Mart City Park for their Annual Block Party in tandem with the opening reception of "Flotation Device," a group exhibition with works from Colleen Louise Berry, Flora Wilds, and Becca Fuhrman! The block party features local artists and vendors, food, drinks, music and more! 

Woodworkers and makers are invited to meet new friends! The wood studio at Pratt is the blue building with yellow trim. Go through the door with the front porch, straight through the foyer and down the hall. BYOB or snacks. See event details at @mcintyrefurniture.

Get ready to let loose in the letterpress shop with Partners in Print! They supply all the ink, paper, wood type, historical printing presses, and ambiance—your job is to have a great time creating your own original letterpress artwork. In just two hours, you’ll walk away with several original posters and a slew of new ink-loving friends. Register here.

Draw with your friends! Hone your skills! Have a beer! Drink & Doodle meets monthly at a bar and draws together figuratively and literally. Warm up with some chatting and individual drawing time, then move into quick, cooperative drawing games. Feel free to participate in the games or just use the time to work in your sketchbook. Bring pens or other drawing utensils, sketchbooks and or loose paper. Monthly locations vary. Register here.

Everyone's talking about what AI replaces. We want to talk about what it can't. And how it serves to only amplify the design method. Product design is having a strange moment. The tools got faster, the outputs got cheaper, and somehow the hard part (knowing what's actually good, and why) got more valuable, not less. Judgment, taste, the instinct for what a person actually needs. That's the human layer. So we're getting Seattle's design community in one room to talk about it, and then to just be in a room together. Register here.

The Salon Social at Public Display.Art / Art Love Salon is a weekly happy hour of like-minded artists and creatives chilling with wine and grooves in the gorgeous gallery space at Art Love Salon.

The Conru Art Foundation presents Summer of Awe, the umbrella for bringing people together through local art, local culture, and real places in Seattle. This walking tour is an exploration of historic downtown buildings nobody has been allowed to see. The Lusty Lady, locked since 2010. The 1916 Coliseum, sealed behind a retail-era drop ceiling for thirty years. About sixty minutes, hardhats on. Get meet up details here.

Drawing is a skill that requires constant refinement. Why not refine it with a beer and some new friends in a classic Seattle institution Hattie's Hat backroom. The perfect introvert activity! No skill level required, Bounce ideas off your comrades, get and give some advice or just hang out and doodle.

Serenity now! We don't know about you but we could stand a little peace. And The Frye is going to help calm our troubled souls with art and deep breathing exercises while looking at the ethereal beauty of art. The Frye offers free, thirty-minute drop-in sessions of Mindfulness Meditation on the first and third Wednesday of the month. Sessions on the third Wednesday of the month are guided by Katie Freeman. Registration is not required.