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mixed media, CNF, whimsical workshops, community building w/art, weird fiction, dark fantasy. island in the slipstream.

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If there is a Superman of craft, his name is Larrie King (aka Mister Larrie) (@mister.larrie). He quilts! He paints! He dances and does drag makeup! He bedazzles cookies and cupcakes!⁠
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In Mister Larrie’s Craft Show on YouTube, he leaps across mediums in a single bound. He also boasts a robust following on Instagram and TikTok, saving the day with a steady stream of creative encouragement and approachable projects.⁠
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Click the link in my bio to learn more about Mr. Larrie.⁠
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#creativity #artist #article

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Thank you @nobleliverpool for this beautiful, glimmery, textured piece of art. Thank you for sharing your energy and light with me.

Thank you for the reminder of my power: “I didn’t have it so I borrowed it.”

#postcardsforthepeople #artexchange #creative #community #hope

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Receiving handmade snail mail full of good energy has been a delight!

Thank you Jamila @beatofblossoms and Almah @agentsubrosa.

#postcardsforthepeople #postcardswap #collage #community #collectivecare

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Congratulations to Assemble for 15 years of arts and technology education for Pittsburgh youth and families.

YOGAMOTIF and the Assemble PTA (Parents That Art) are excited to support you in this special occasion 🎉

Join us as we celebrate with 15 artist who have donated works in honor of their 15 years of creative care to our art babies. We can only do this in community, and we’re grateful to share this with such a generous one.

Here’s to many more years of art adventures 🎉🥳❤️💥

@assemblepgh featured artists:
@en_jay_me
@blackunicornlibraryproject Bekezela Mguni
@alishabwormsley
@mikaelowunna
@_stefaniezito_studio
@naomibdaygirl
@agentsubrosa
@michelleclesse
@janet2100watkins
@eezzeez
@dskinsel
@damonyoungvsb
@sakenajwan
@thealeciadawn
@potsbygrace20

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Sending beautiful energy, light, and joy through this sweet collage to a stranger somewhere out there. Analog creativity and snail mail in a difficult, digital world.

#postcardsforthepeople #joy #liberation #light #collage

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Here’s my 1st collaged postcard for #PostcardsfothePeople 2026, a global postcard swap project created by @agentsubrosa and @beatofblossoms for people of the African Diaspora.

So, I’m off to the post office to mail some joy, and then to create the next collaged postcard.

Happy Snail Mail! 💌

#postcardsforthepeople #postcardswapping #snailmaillove #africandiaspora

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Join me and @teetotal_initiative on Saturday August 29 for a workshop led by mixed media artist Almah LaVon (@agentsubrosa). Register on the events page at teetotal.org to reserve your spot!

Workshop Details
Date: Saturday, Aug 29, 2026
Time: 2:00 – 4:15 PM
Location: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty Branch (Room 3A-3B)

Discover the joy of printmaking in this beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop that celebrates experimentation, curiosity, and creative play. Using simple materials you may already have at home, you’ll explore a variety of approachable monoprinting and monotyping techniques with gelatin (“gelli”) plates, foam plates, stencils, and even trash bags.

Participants will rotate through a series of creative stations, each introducing a different printmaking technique or process. Along the way, you’ll experiment with an assortment of everyday objects and found materials—including Q-tips, makeup sponges, bubble wrap, string, lace, leaves, and more—to create unexpected textures, layered patterns, and one-of-a-kind prints. This rotating format offers plenty of opportunities to try multiple approaches, discover new favorites, and gather inspiration from fellow participants. No drawing or printmaking experience is necessary; the emphasis is on exploration rather than perfection.

You’ll have the opportunity to transform your favorite prints into personalized greeting cards and leave with ideas for applying these techniques to wrapping paper, wall art, journals, collage, and other creative projects at home. More than anything, this workshop invites you to embrace surprise, follow your curiosity, and enjoy the process of making. Every print is an experiment, every layer a discovery, and every mark uniquely your own!

#pghart #soberpittsburgh #soberpgh #pittsburghartist #artisgoodforyou

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Celebrate summer with a mushroom walk at Frick Park with author & mycophile Maria Pinto(@aravensgrace)! Learn some of the basics of mushroom identification, reading the landscape, and traveling at mushroom speed. Seekers of all levels welcome!

Meet us Wed, July 22nd, 4 pm @ Frick Environmental Center & join us post-walk for a cooking demo with foraged mushrooms at the Kingsley Association.

Presented in collaboration with @dreamsofhopeorg, @blackunicornlibraryproject, and @rainbowserpentinc

See you soon! Register through our link in bio or at dreamsofhope.eventbrite.com

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📚 🍄 🌈 ☀️ This July we are so grateful for the mycelial connections that bring us together! Celebrating an abundance of incredible literary offerings that grow beyond the page. We are excited to welcome author, educator, and mycophile, Maria Pinto @aravensgrace to Pittsburgh to share from her powerful new book, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies and Black Survival on Thursday, July 16th at 7pm at @whitewhalebks. She will be joined in conversation by local writer and illustrious fairy marsh monster Almah LaVon! @agentsubrosa

Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, touching on topics that range from Black farmers’ domestication of the unforgettable aroma of truffles to the possibility that enslaved people wielded mycological poisons against their enslavers. Pinto brings a new perspective and a distinctive literary voice to this mix of environmental and lived history, and every page sings with her enthusiasm for the networks in which we are embedded: fungal, ecological, ancestral, and communal. Join her in pursuit of beautiful, perplexing, delicious, and deadly mushrooms as she explores this understudied kingdom’s awe-inspiring diversity and discovers how fungi have been used by people, especially those on the margins, for survival, pleasure, revelation, and revolution.

White Whale Bookstore and the Flower Farm Residency are grateful to present this collaborative event with the support of @blackunicornlibraryproject, @cuttingroot, @dreamsofhopeorg, @writepittsburgh, @ujamaacollective15219, and @sibylsshrine. The reading & conversation is hosted by local artist, librarian, and educator, Bekezela Mguni.

#worththeread
#fungi
#mushrooms
#mycelium
#blacksurvival

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Meet meTamorphosis PRIDE's incredible readers: Almah LaVon, Steffan Triplett, grace (ge) gilbert, and James!

meTamorphosis PRIDE is tomorrow, June 12th, 7pm-9pm at White Whale Bookstore!

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Project 9 is Feeling Cute Might Delete Later! The evolution of the self portrait in my lifetime and my own relationship with it, the selfie, the self portrait, is something I will likely explore for YEARS. It has been YEARS since I’ve put an image of myself into my art. I find it really uncomfortable, I actually had to work on this collage upside down for a while to get past the discomfort. This year of projects has been very blessed by timely, free workshops. Thanks to @silvereyecenter and the many wonderful orgs that came together for this one. The workshop: Altared Self Mixed Me dia collage self portraits encouraged participants to bring a black and white self portrait to work from. The first black and white image of just me that I could find was this selfie I took with a disposable film camera at the @sza concert in Baltimore, a little tipsy and feeling cute. It’s silly. I like that I took without much thought, documenting myself enjoying a really great night. Almah and Bekezela, the hosts of the workshop, spoke about sacred whimsy and generous extravagance. I tried to channel my own interpretations of these principles into this piece. I decorated myself generously, extravagantly, and surrounded myself with memories / artifacts of whimsy and play found through making. My materials included: old sketchbook floral scribbles, watercolor experiments, flowers punched from a sparkly dress, previously punched paper from a 2018 silver eye gallery brochure, collected instances of my name - a handwritten label from my mom, Microsoft paint art, and a hand lettered script calligraphy from a stranger who sent me art in the mail. glossy photo prints of the hazy greenish fog of forgetting to use the flash, cut into oval mirrors. A tie dye coffee filter art project from childhood. What else? The result feels like tumblr art and my childhood bedroom walls and also maybe how it feels to be described by someone who loves you. Looking forward to figuring out how to bring more of me into my future projects. Thankful to the Pittsburgh art community for creating spaces for making together. ✂️ 🪞 🌹

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Dreams of Hope's speaQ presents a soft place for myself: a radical self-love gathering with Almah LaVon! In this creative expression workshop, we will craft altered/altared self-portraits and love letters to the self 🥰💕

Meet us Tuesday, Feb 10th at 6 pm on Zoom! Visit dreamsofhope.eventbrite.com for the materials list and to register.

Need materials? Local folks can pick up kits at @creative_reuse Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse during store hours (11 am-5 pm) from Sunday, Feb 8th to Tuesday, Feb 10th. Ten kits are available and provided on a first come first serve basis.
Creative Reuse Address: 214 N Lexington St, Pittsburgh, PA 15208

#SelfLove #Workshop #Creative #Queer #LGBTQ #DreamsOfHope #speaQ

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