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Sign up and learn to build the habits of a consistent sketchbook practice with professional artist Dana Caldera!

The Traveling Sketchbook Express (Sat, June 27, 11AM-1PM)
With Dana Caldera
Tickets: $35
Sign up on our website at https://www.artlinkfw.org/traveling-sketchbook-workshop

This workshop is focused on slowing down, recording your observations, and creating the habits of a bold sketchbook practice. This condensed session will introduce 8 modes of visual sketchbook recording that will allow you to build a sketchbook record of a specific time and place. Following the course, you can continue to use these prompts on-location to record future experiences!

Bring your sketchbook, art materials, gathered mementos from a trip, and some images you want to record. No experience necessary—all skill levels are welcome! You’ll leave with a sketchbook full of travel drawings and inspiration to keep up your recording practice.

We have two great workshops coming up next Saturday, June 27: The Traveling Sketchbook Express and Clay Impressions! Learn more below and sign up at artlinkfw.org/workshops

The Traveling Sketchbook Express (Sat, June 27, 11AM-1PM)
With Dana Caldera
Tickets: $35

This workshop is a guided sketchbook course, focused on slowing down, recording your observations, and creating the habits of a bold sketchbook practice. This condensed session will introduce 8 modes of visual sketchbook recording that will allow you to build a sketchbook record of a specific time and place. Following the course, you can continue to use these prompts on-location to record future experiences!

Clay Impressions (Sat, June 20, 1-3PM)
With Andrea Jones
Tickets: $60

Learn to create and glaze your own botanical mug using a direct impression technique in the clay. Pieces will be glazed that day and will be fired and available to be picked up at a later date!

Thank you to over 400 of you who came out to celebrate with us last night!

Congratulations to the Solo Exhibition Award winner, ! Keep an eye out for her show in the spring!

And also congrats to all of the honorable mentions: Don Ohlwine, SD Hoffman, Jordan Kurzen, Peter Lupkin, Maurice Papier, Kaleigh Middelkoop, and Jim Gabbard!

If you didn’t get a chance to come yesterday, the Members’ Showcase is open through July 19. And People’s Choice Award voting is still open until July 17 to vote for your favorite work!

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Today’s the day! Join us tonight from 5-8PM for the opening reception of our 48th Members’ Showcase, featuring over 200 local artists!

Everyone is welcome, of all ages, and there is no cost to attend! Come enjoy some food, desserts, a cash bar, and an incredible amount of local artwork to view!

Last day to enter Lucent or Mirroring Reality! Enter online by 11:59pm tonight. You can find both calls at https://www.artlinkfw.org/calls-for-entry

Lucent: The Art of Light
This juried exhibition is open to light-focused works of all media and can be interpreted broadly—from work that depicts light, to work which emits light itself.

Mirroring Reality: Realism Today
This call for entry invites artists practicing Realism, Photorealism, and Hyperrealism. Open to all media, this exhibition will highlight diverse interpretations of Contemporary Realism and explore how artists mirror, challenge, and reconstruct reality through representational imagery.

$12 per entry, entries submitted online only. Learn more at artlinkfw.org/calls-for-entry and apply to either exhibition by June 18! The selected artworks will be on view at Artlink July 30 - August 23, 2026.

Featured artworks by Frank Geiser and Mayuko Ono Gray

Here’s a little sneak peek at just a few walls from our 48th Members’ Showcase! Come out to Artlink this Thursday from 5-8PM to see way more and support over 200 local artists!

Absolutely everyone is welcome, you don’t need to be an Artlink Member or even be previously familiar with Artlink at all! You just have to love looking at art, meeting artists, or eating snacks and desserts. We will also have a cash bar, raffle packages, and a people’s choice award to vote on!

See you Thursday!