Cyanotype is an early photographic printing process that creates beautiful, deep blue prints using UV light. In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll learn how to use cyanotypes to design your own holiday cards! No prior experience is required—this class is perfect for newcomers, as well as those who have taken my intro courses and want to explore the process further. After a 30-minute demonstration on how cyanotypes work, you'll have 2 hours of open studio time to experiment with various materials and create your own unique cards. All materials, including cyanotype chemicals, card stock, and basic supplies, will be provided. You’re also welcome to bring your own items—such as leaves, flowers, or other objects—to experiment with and make your cards truly one-of-a-kind. Depending on the class size, you can expect to create up to 5 cards during the workshop.

Everyone is encouraged to bring in items they think would be fun to use for composition.

Things to consider bringing!

Bring in objects you would like to experiment compositions with. Remember this process is created by the shadows of objects so color doesn't matter.

Things to consider: fun silhouettes, see through or translucent objects, Playing with scale and fun edges. Things that lay flat are going to print differently than 3D objects. Both are fun to play with!

Learn how to tie the lucky knot, a symbol of protection and good fortune in many Asian cultures. In this beginner-friendly workshop, participants will be guided through the traditional knot-tying process and invited to personalize their knot with beads and discs.

Each participant will leave with at least one finished knot, step-by-step instructions from the artist, and a zine on different kinds of knots.

Led by: Ahmoy William Lau (they/them), a Chinese knot artist and educator based in Dᶻidᶻəlalič / Seattle, whose work is inspired by their queer ancestors and hidden histories.

Date: Wednesday, January 22
Time: 6–8 PM
Cost: $10–$40 sliding scale
Capacity: Limited spots available

Hosted by Meilani @chinatown.auntie from Asian American Zine Fest. Make zines to celebrate and share what queer Asian joy means to you. Supplies provided but feel free to bring your own stickers, photos, etc. You can submit your finished zine to Asian American Zine Fest's library archive! Learn more about zines and make new friends at the Fishbowl from 1-4pm, January 18, 2026. 

Asian American Zine Fest Seattle is a collective of anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist zine-makers creating space for creative politic for Asian America. Meilani is a community organizer, artist, and public historian in the Chinatown-International District. 

Celebrate queer asian joy during the January Uptown Art Walk by checking out the RIPE exhibit!

Be sure to check out all the other locations participating in the Uptown Art Walk on their instagram @uptownartwalkseattle.

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ACCESSIBILITY: Our space is ADA accessible, with a ramp located to the right of the staircase leading down to the venue. We offer a range of seating options, including chairs that are more comfortable for fat folks. We ask that guests be mindful of the privilege their body may hold when it comes to accessing public seating. If you are in an abled and smaller body, please use the smaller white event chairs to help ensure inclusive and accessible seating for everyone.

🍑✨ Opening Reception: RIPE — Queer Asian Joy ✨🍑

Join us for the opening of RIPE: Queer Asian Joy, featuring work by 20+ queer and/or trans Asian artists across mediums exploring belonging, visibility, softness, resistance, and the radical act of being seen in full color.

This exhibition is a response to every moment queer and trans Asians have been made to feel like outsiders — and a celebration of what happens when we stop shrinking and take up space together.

Doors open at 5pm. Queer Asian makers market in the back from 5–8pm.

RIPE is guest curated by Wren Jung. 

Come through, bring your people, and step into the new year held in queer Asian joy. 🌈💖

Join us for the closing reception of All Wrapped Up and stay for our community circle. We’re returning to our group-share format this month with gentle reflection prompts as the days begin to lengthen again. Circle starts promptly at 6:30pm.

🌙 Solstice + Year-End Reflection Prompts

• What surprised you about yourself in the past year?

• What layers of you became more visible this year? What layers did you shed?

• What story from this year still feels unfinished — and how might you honor it?

• What word or feeling do you want to guide you into the new year?

• What’s one boundary, practice, or ritual you want to carry with you?

• What do you hope your future self thanks you for a year from now?

Cyanotype is an early photographic printing process that creates beautiful, deep blue prints using UV light. In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll learn how to use cyanotypes to design your own holiday cards! No prior experience is required—this class is perfect for newcomers, as well as those who have taken my intro courses and want to explore the process further. After a 30-minute demonstration on how cyanotypes work, you'll have 2 hours of open studio time to experiment with various materials and create your own unique cards. All materials, including cyanotype chemicals, card stock, and basic supplies, will be provided. You’re also welcome to bring your own items—such as leaves, flowers, or other objects—to experiment with and make your cards truly one-of-a-kind. Depending on the class size, you can expect to create up to 5 cards during the workshop.

Everyone is encouraged to bring in items they think would be fun to use for composition.

Things to consider bringing!

Bring in objects you would like to experiment compositions with. Remember this process is created by the shadows of objects so color doesn't matter.

Things to consider: fun silhouettes, see through or translucent objects, Playing with scale and fun edges. Things that lay flat are going to print differently than 3D objects. Both are fun to play with!

Join us for the opening reception of All Wrapped Up and shop our local qtbipoc creative market!

To unwrap a piece at the show, guests will make a donation to ANERA, Real Rent Duwamish, or La Resistencia. If a work sells, artists may choose to donate their sales to one of these organizations as well—supporting humanitarian relief, Indigenous sovereignty, and immigrant justice.

• Beats by MIIJU

• Pole Performances by The Gongspot, Cat, and Mary start at 6:30pm

About Pole Performers at All Wrapped Up

The Gongspot (she/her)
Insta handle: @ann_dances

Venmo: @anngong 

The Gongspot (@ann_dances) (she/her) is a queer Taiwanese-American pole dancer who wants to make you feel your emotions and cravings deeply. She credits the origin of modern pole dance to BIPOC strippers and sex workers and strongly encourages everyone to follow, learn from, and donate to organizations such as Sex Workers Outreach Project (@swop_usa) and Strippers Are Workers (@strippersareworkerswa).

Cat (she/her)

Insta handle: @cat.pole

CashApp: $w0ndercat 

Cat is a Vietnamese-American pole dancer who finds joy in sensual, slinky movement. She has a particular interest in dancing to sad love songs and angry grunge music. She believes that movement and dance have an extraordinary power to heal and aid in processing complex emotions like sadness, anger and grief.

Mary (she/her)

Instagram handle: @mary.eliz_abeth

Venmo: @maryelizabethpoles

Mary Elizabeth (@mary.eliz_abeth) (she/her) is a queer pole dancer, contortionist, and instructor. Originally from Chicago, she performed, competed, and taught throughout the Midwest until moving to Seattle in 2020. Mary currently teaches at Raven Studios Seattle (@ravenstudiosseattle) and offers personal training at Rain City Fitness (@raincityfit). The pole industry would not exist without the BIPOC, queer, and trans strippers and sex workers who have shared their experience and knowledge, and she encourages everyone to learn about and advocate for the decriminalization of sex work.

Calling queer asian artists! Join us for a two month exhibit centering queer asian joy. Submit by 11:59pm PST

Join us for the final evening of the If I Could Tell You I Would… show. Hear reflections from featured artists, connect in community, and join a group discussion on communication, connection, and saying the hard thing.

Whether you’ve come to every event or this is your first, this is a beautiful opportunity to be present with the fullness of this show and this moment.

Grab a snack, pull up a chair, and just listen or share from your own lived experience.

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Made possible by funding from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, this event is open and free to all. 

ACCESSIBILITY: Our space is ADA accessible, with a ramp located to the right of the staircase leading down to the venue. We offer a range of seating options, including chairs that are more comfortable for fat folks. We ask that guests be mindful of the privilege their body may hold when it comes to accessing public seating. If you are in an abled and smaller body, please use the smaller white event chairs to help ensure inclusive and accessible seating for everyone.

Join us for our monthly Sunday afternoon drop in art sesh! Bring your works in progress and dive back in while immersed in art. This event is free and open to the public. Grab a seat or easel at the table and get back into the groove with fellow Fishbowl community artists. Bring friends, bring snacks!

Join us for a night of connection and art-making! 🎨

This workshop is inspired by an art therapy practice and will be led by Wynonna Susilo (she/her), an artist & mental health clinician.

We will be engaging in intuitive art-making through collage materials and a guided prompt of Creating a Postcard You’ll Never Send. The hope is to provide space for folks to communicate unsaid words, to express emotions without words, to find closure and hopefully finding healing along the way.

📅 November 13th, 6pm to 8pm

📍 @The Fishbowl

This workshop invites queer and trans Asians to gather in a shared space of reflection, storytelling, and co-creation. Through conversation, participants will explore joy as an embodied practice—one that resists invisibility, honors our lineages, and reconnects us to each other.

Guided by the belief that joy is both a radical act and a communal inheritance, this workshop offers a space to rest, be seen, and imagine new ways of belonging together.

Wren Jung (they/he) is a queer and trans Korean American artist, guest curator of RIPE: Queer Asian Joy show in January, 2026 and interdisciplinary researcher based in the Pacific Northwest. Their creative practice moves between art, storytelling, and community work, exploring how joy, vulnerability, and ancestral memory shape the ways we come to know ourselves and one another.

Hosted at The Fishbowl Gallery, November 1st, 2025
Facilitated by Wren Jung

Cyanotype is an early photographic printing process that creates beautiful, deep blue prints using UV light. In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll learn how to use cyanotypes to design your own holiday cards! No prior experience is required—this class is perfect for newcomers, as well as those who have taken my intro courses and want to explore the process further. After a 30-minute demonstration on how cyanotypes work, you'll have 2 hours of open studio time to experiment with various materials and create your own unique cards. All materials, including cyanotype chemicals, card stock, and basic supplies, will be provided. You’re also welcome to bring your own items—such as leaves, flowers, or other objects—to experiment with and make your cards truly one-of-a-kind. Depending on the class size, you can expect to create up to 5 cards during the workshop.

Everyone is encouraged to bring in items they think would be fun to use for composition.

Things to consider bringing!

Bring in objects you would like to experiment compositions with. Remember this process is created by the shadows of objects so color doesn't matter.

Things to consider: fun silhouettes, see through or translucent objects, Playing with scale and fun edges. Things that lay flat are going to print differently than 3D objects. Both are fun to play with!

Join us for our monthly Sunday afternoon drop in art sesh! Bring your works in progress and dive back in while immersed in art. This event is free and open to the public. Grab a seat or easel at the table and get back into the groove with fellow Fishbowl community artists. Bring friends, bring snacks!

Creative Writing Workshop with Caroline Catlin
What words do we hold back—and what would happen if we set them free?
Join writer Caroline Catlin for a free workshop inspired by If I Could Tell You I Would…, exploring the things we wish we could say through prompts, letter-writing, and reflection. Optional sharing at the Fishbowl Open Mics (10/16 & 11/20).
Sun 10/05, 11 am–1 pm (in person) | Tue 10/15, 6:30–8:30 pm (online)
Free, limited space.

Cyanotype is an early photographic printing process that creates beautiful, deep blue prints using UV light. In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll learn how to use cyanotypes to design your own holiday cards! No prior experience is required—this class is perfect for newcomers, as well as those who have taken my intro courses and want to explore the process further. After a 30-minute demonstration on how cyanotypes work, you'll have 2 hours of open studio time to experiment with various materials and create your own unique cards. All materials, including cyanotype chemicals, card stock, and basic supplies, will be provided. You’re also welcome to bring your own items—such as leaves, flowers, or other objects—to experiment with and make your cards truly one-of-a-kind. Depending on the class size, you can expect to create up to 5 cards during the workshop.

Everyone is encouraged to bring in items they think would be fun to use for composition.

Things to consider bringing!

Bring in objects you would like to experiment compositions with. Remember this process is created by the shadows of objects so color doesn't matter.

Things to consider: fun silhouettes, see through or translucent objects, Playing with scale and fun edges. Things that lay flat are going to print differently than 3D objects. Both are fun to play with!

Creative Writing Workshop with Caroline Catlin
What words do we hold back—and what would happen if we set them free?
Join writer Caroline Catlin for a free workshop inspired by If I Could Tell You I Would…, exploring the things we wish we could say through prompts, letter-writing, and reflection. Optional sharing at the Fishbowl Open Mics (10/16 & 11/20).
Sun 10/05, 11 am–1 pm (in person) | Tue 10/15, 6:30–8:30 pm (online)
Free, limited space.

Join us for the opening reception of If I Could Tell You I Would and shop our local qtbipoc creative market!

As we near Autumn - the period of change - we are reminded to reflect on the ephemerality of the seasons and its parallels to the human experience. From a brief occurrence, to the passage of time, Ephemerality is frequently a constant. Whether the experience is positive or negative, or somewhere in between, artists explore a concept that is not meant to last and the emotions that come with that. It could be a momentary feeling of unease and knowing that it will not be permanent or chasing a point of contentment that has come and gone. This show explores art that is a product of change, degradation, fleetingness, impermanency, transitions, decay and growth, grief and acceptance and how these experiences are explored artistically.

Featuring artwork by Amanda Mancenido, Ashly McBride, Brittany Otto, Casey Ailes, CYANonymous, Dahyun Kim, Gabriela Garcia Greco, Kelly Woznicki, Kendria Huff, Mehek Mehra, Nathaly Lerma, NGENIOUS, Ning Wan, Pidge Pasqualle, Raziel Grisaffi, Rebecca Ann Jordan, Rebecca Mott, Ren Han, and Rosie Pringle.