About us
Come create and celebrate with us at Push/Pull in Ballard. We're a dedicated group of artists creating a unique space that's part art gallery, comic shop, event space, and community resource. Events include art classes, life drawing, comic challenges, craft and shrinky dink nights, and more!
ADA accessible!
Featured event
Intro to Pysanky
This is a paid event that requires registration—sign up here!
Students will learn basic techniques for designing and dyeing pysanky (Ukranian wax-resist eggs)! Learn about the history and symbolism of traditional design elements to personalize your work. Students will complete their designs in this three-hour workshop and pick up their varnished, finished pysanky afterwards!
Ages: 10 and up. Minors must be accompanied by an adult.
Materials: All materials are provided!
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- $50.00
Fantasy Map-Making
Push/Pull, 2000 NW Market St, Seattle, WA, USThis is a paid event that requires registration—sign up here!
Make your mark and say "Here Be Dragons" with this Fantasy Map Making workshop! Whether you are an artist, author, DM, GM, or just really like maps, you'll learn about how to make believable maps, whatever your worldbuilding goals are. We'll cover important topics like gravity, how to indicate topography and terrain, the effects of water, civilization, and most of all, when and how to break the rules.
All materials are provided, just bring your imagination (and a set of dice), and depart with a finished map to start your worldbuilding journey!2 attendees - $50.00
Make a Zine! Crash Course—Collage!
Push/Pull, 2000 NW Market St, Seattle, WA, USThis is a paid class that requires registration—sign up here!
Get your ideas onto the page and finally MAKE THAT ZINE!
Zines are small books, usually made out of a single sheet of paper, that anyone can make! In this all-ages workshop, join us to develop your zine from start to finish. Learn different ways to fold the same piece of paper to acquire different zine formats. Each month we'll focus on a different topic so you can keep coming back to make more!
The cost of the class includes 10 copies of your zine printed on your choice of Risograph colors or on our laserjet printer.- April: Collage! Tear into our extensive used magazine collection to cut and paste your way to success. Collage is a wonderful way to use your imagination while starting with some images--so you don't have to come up with them all by yourself!
2 attendees - $65.00
Book Binding Workshop: Hardcover with French Link
Push/Pull, 2000 NW Market St, Seattle, WA, USThis is a paid event that requires registration—sign up here!
Create your own fancy book and learn different binding techniques! You'll get to select your cover and interior papers, create covers and signatures, and create a different design every month with guidance from book enthusiast RJ.
- April: Hardcover with French link. Create a small hardcover book with a hard spine and get your stitching in to create a French-link book block.
2 attendees 
Riff Raff League
Push/Pull, 2000 NW Market St, Seattle, WA, USThis event is free, but RSVPs are appreciated. Masks required. Sign up here.
Concerned about the state of... well, everything? Let's join together and use our special weird powers for good!
Be a part of the Riff Raff League, a group of neighbors banding together for mutual aid, community building, and political action. We'll meet weekly for an hour to talk through what's happening locally and nationally and to brainstorm what we can do about it.
Come when you can, provide ideas and solutions, or just listen to what's going on in the neighborhood. This event is free, after-hours at Push/Pull. RSVPs are appreciated, but we will not turn anyone away. You are welcome to bring snacks to share. Recommended for ages 14 and up.
Push/Pull's Director, Maxx FG, will be moderating meetings of the RiffRaff League. Maxx has been passionate about politics from a young age and believes collective action is critical to a functioning democracy.
2 attendees
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