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
Cut the Crap: A No BS Collage Workshop
This is a paid class that requires registration. Sign up here.
Ditch perfection, get out of your head and have fun with this no BS approach to collage making!
Leave the BS at the door, because we are going to burn the rules, embrace experimentation, and have fun with collage games and prompts sure to get the creative juices flowing. This class is perfect for artists feeling stuck in their creative practice, veteran collagers who want to infuse some play into their work, and complete and total art beginners!
CORE PRINCIPLES
- No art school vibes
- No perfection
- No overthinking
- Just cut, glue, rip, layer, play!
All materials are provided. This class is recommended for students 18 and up.
Marty Gordon (he/him) is a Pacific Northwest visual artist whose brand, What Would Jesus Glue, grew out of his past life as a minister and his journey from faith to skepticism. Combining sharp wit with a retro comic-book aesthetic, he has carved out a distinct niche in contemporary collage. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and he is one of 40 artists featured in the book Masters: Collage. Through Microverse Press, the indie publishing venture he co-runs with a friend, Marty has produced collaborative artist books and self-published collections, including Sensitive Monsters, a compilation of his daily monster drawings created during a hiatus from collage. While living in Atlanta, he founded the Atlanta Collage Collective to champion collage as an art form and foster community among its practitioners. In recent years, Marty’s work has expanded into the street art world, with his pieces appearing in sticker festivals across the globe. When not making art, he enjoys reading, improv comedy, and spending time with his wife, family, friends, and godkids.
Upcoming events
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- $40.00
Botanical Watercolors
Push/Pull, 2000 NW Market St, Seattle, WA, USThis is a paid class that requires registration. Sign up here.
Learn how to create beautiful botanical watercolor paintings with Maxx Follis-Goodkind. This class happens every first Wednesday of the month.
Each class will focus on one type of plant and use a limited palette. Participants will receive a sampler of the colors to use for the class and to take home any left over. All other materials are provided. You are welcome to bring your preferred brushes or use our studio selection.
Join Maxx in-person at Push/Pull to learn about creating dynamic paintings and compositions through the placement of botanical elements and use of exaggerated lighting.
Attendees get 15% off in-store purchases of art supplies the day of the course.
5 attendees - $50.00
Make a Zine! Crash Course—Fanzines
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.- March: Fanzines! We'll harness our rabid appreciation for different media. Make a fanzine about your favorite book, movie, TV show, local radio station, cats, or whatever else you're a fan of. We'll look at some examples and talk about how to balance writing and art while making a zine about what you love.
2 attendees - $65.00
Book Binding Workshop: Lay-Flat Sketchbook
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.
- March: Lay-flat sketchbook. Use the Coptic stitch method to create a lay-flat sketchbook with exposed stitching to show off!
2 attendees - $75.00
Crafting Mini Worlds with Cloche Dioramas
Push/Pull, 2000 NW Market St, Seattle, WA, USThis is a paid class that requires registration. Sign up here.
Ever seen the dioramas throughout the Push/Pull shop and wanted to make your own? Now you can!
In Crafting Mini Worlds, you'll get to pick from the tiniest of crafting and art materials to create a unique world under a small clear acrylic cloche.
All materials are provided. This class is recommended for ages 13 and up. Your Push/Pull host is available for light instruction, guidance and tips on customizing your work as well as affixing your materials to stand the test of time.3 attendees
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