Hope
@hopeamico.com
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they/them•letterpress printer•writer•teaching artist moody skies•short stories•creative practice I make collage when I can't sleep. 💌 Keep Writing project since 2008 💌 newsletter: hopeamico.substack.com classes & everything else: hopeamico.com/links
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"I Can't Draw" drawing workshop starts THIS SUNDAY and I can't wait to draw with y'all.
info ®ister at: hopeamico.com/shopclasses/p/i-cant-draw-2025

#youcandraw #drawing #learntodraw #art #makeart #queerteacher #queerart #enby #letsgo #onlineclass #artclass
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Line Drawing, Layered Print on Fabriano Paper
"I Can't Draw" drawing workshop starts THIS SUNDAY and I can't wait to draw with y'all.
info ®ister at: hopeamico.com/shopclasses/p/i-cant-draw-2025

#youcandraw #drawing #learntodraw #art #makeart #queerteacher #queerart #enby #letsgo #onlineclass #artclass
new post about how I teach!
#art #collage #gelliprint #teaching #teachingartist #teach #learn #queerart #queerteacher #printer #printmaking
make art immediately!
and other insights to teaching
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building off ashley’s point, this is how i feel about community arts organizing right now. that’s a role coming together and making stuff plays: slowing down, being present together, breathing, talking, making things, building, caring, encouraging, strengthening
i'm starting to love facilitation work more than anything.

getting people to slow down and breathe together feels like such important work right now. getting them to remember our values and our dreams, and to look at each other for strength.

i love it.
Sorry, it is an old work uncredited in the sample files where I teach.
Weekend letterpress spotted at the IPRC during my Intro to Letterpress class!
#makemistakes #letterpress #letterpressprinter #letterpressprint #printmaking #printer #print #queerprinter
Today I walked through this tunnel alone. My neighborhood is weird in the best way.
#walk #walking #portland #gayportland #queer #discover
sunday spottings
I went for a walk, let's draw
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"it like how white people in america did slavery, but they also ended slavery." Josh Johnson's take on the news always brings a little salt.
The guy who couldn't stop a fight between Gary Busey and Meatloaf just brokered peace in the Middle East
I don't send material packets to online students anymore but sometimes I can't resist sending a little something.
I Can't Draw starts 10/19.
#letsdraw #art #class #artist #teachingartist #enbyart #enbyteacher #drawing #penandpencil #learntodraw
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This week on VIBE CHECK, we talk about white mediocrity: the moral mediocrity of Ezra Klein and the media mediocrity of Bari Weiss, hehe.
An Abundance of White Mediocrity
Podcast Episode · Vibe Check · 10/08/2025 · 58m
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I kind of want to call to check in on Bam Bam!
It feels like the smallest thing sometimes, to watch someone get excited about drawing, or become less frustrated with themselves in their creative practice. But I’m here for it.
(PS Im teaching a drawing workshop called "I Can't Draw" and it starts in 10 days!)
#art #artclasses #draw #queerart
new post! about space and time and drawing....
#draw #art #writing #queerwriting #makeart #icantdraw
what is a safe space?
"I Can't Draw" drawing workshop is ready for you
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In my classes, my goal is to make people feel comfortable and curious about making art. ("I Can't Draw" drawing workshop starts 10/19--learn more at hopeamico.com/classes)
#art #queer #queerart #teachingartist #learntodraw #drawing #DRAW #onlineclass #artclass #artclasses #TEACHING #teacher #mcba
Join me Sunday for this pay-what-you-can class that will be part brainstorming, part discussion, and a little dancing! no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

#stayinspired #ZINESKY #zines #onlineclass #notaflof #artclass #writers #writing #queer #enbyartist #QUEERARTIST #queerart
ONLINE: Staying Inspired! (Pay What You Can) Oct 2025 — hope amico
Sunday October 5 2-4 pm PST Online & recorded for participants. Introducing a monthly series for the rest of 2025: Pay What You Can Classes! Register here to save your spot, choose your pay...
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The Killer Klowns from Outer Space! They wrapped victims up in cotton candy which sounds lovely.
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Twin Cities PBS put together a nice piece about us over the summer, and it was just released over on Instagram!
twincitiespbs on Instagram: "This Twin Cities art group is turning trash into treasure. 🖼️  Founded in 2017, the Twin Cities Collage Collective gathers regular…"
This Twin Cities art group is turning trash into treasure. 🖼️  Founded in 2017, the Twin Cities Collage Collective gathers regularly at Fresh Eye Gallery (@fresheyegallery) for communal art-making. At these meetups, expect to find stacks of vintage magazines, paper scraps in unexpected places, and a shared sense of excitement in reworking found materials. ✨ For @twincitiescollagecollective founder allison anne (@allisonannecollage), the goal is to provide a welcoming environment for anyone who is interested in working in collage. “We really want to make it as accessible as possible.” 🫶🏽 To learn more about the artists featured in this video, check out their profiles below. Andrea Okeson / @andreaokesonart Christopher Alday / @_hurlyburly_ Jen Shaffer / @jen_shaffer_art Jenna Wynne / @pony_hotline Maggie Carter / @incognitomaggie Margaret Vergara / @marg.verg.art MELMCK / @melmckcollage Sonitha Tep / @f0g.machine Yvette Griffea-gray / @7yvelen allison anne / @allisonannecollage Brady Martin (Brado) / @hmmonmyway Ellis MacMillan / @mothscraps...#artcollective #collageart #twincitiesart #localartist #artofinstagramView all comments
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People saying the fascism we’re seeing is unprecedented, unimaginable etc miss the larger point.

We‘re not experiencing anything new. We‘re experiencing an *expansion* of existing realities targeting Black people especially. Until we get that, we’ll miss how to fight US fascism at its core.
obviously Springsteen's "Im on FIre", Sebadoh "On Fire" and my current choice, Florence and the Machine "Free" (I'm on fire and I'm trying not to show it"
ok, research for a newsletter: songs about being on fire GO!

#songs #music #imonfire #hivemind #crowdsource
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From the book How to make electronic music, by Russell Drake and Ronald Herder with Anne D. Modugno, 1975
person holding a mic into a clump of vegetation