Come play with us! Bring your art, your craft, your crossword puzzle, and your friends. We have tunes, snacks, sips and tea. You do not need to be “good” at art. This is a space for community to connect, people to laugh, and doodles to be made. We will play some games and generally have fun!

Next Mahjong club meeting is Sunday, June 28th, 1-4pm at Little Giant Collective. All levels welcome. Hours are drop-in, mo pressure to stay the whole time or arrive right at 1pm. This is not your mother’s mahjong, as in, we may have rule variations and need to phone an auntie mid game, but it’s all for fun! Make a new friend or MJ nemisis!

Come play with us! Bring your art, your craft, your crossword puzzle, and your friends. We have tunes, snacks, sips and tea. You do not need to be “good” at art. This is a space for community to connect, people to laugh, and doodles to be made. We will play some games and generally have fun!

Next Mahjong club meeting is Sunday, June 28th, 1-4pm at Little Giant Collective. All levels welcome. Hours are drop-in, mo pressure to stay the whole time or arrive right at 1pm. This is not your mother’s mahjong, as in, we may have rule variations and need to phone an auntie mid game, but it’s all for fun! Make a new friend or MJ nemisis!

Little Giant Collective is excited to announce the opening reception on Friday, February 7th, for Robert Johnson III’s exhibition “I Say a Little Prayer for You”.

Join Little Giant Collective this Friday, January 3rd, 6-9 for our First Friday reception for Alia Griese’s exhibition PROM (Please Run Over Me). We are SO excited to kick the year off with Alia and her visions and night musings.

Join us for our LAST FIRST FRIDAY OF 2024 on Friday December 6th from 6-9PM for a look at the visual legacy of community hub and Collective partner, The Fábrica. We are thrilled to display their Protest Banner Lending Library in the studio.

Featured artist Patricia Larenas presents a stunning new show on First Friday.

Join us Friday 11/1 from 6-9 pm for an intimate reflection on the tools we use to make art. Making use of the materials around her, Larenas utilizes local soils, charcoal from wildfires, and handmade paper to create her work. On Paper is a breathtaking textural delight featuring an array of interconnected disciplines that beg the question: In this time of planetary crisis, what is the most important thing you can create?

Join us THIS WEEK for the opening exhibition of Tender Bats & Spooky Cats from local printmaker Elbow! Swing by the studio on October 4th from 6-9pm to get in the Halloween mood...

Join Little Giant Collective on Friday, September 6-9 to celebrate the opening reception of “Reminiscence” a new exhibition from Alicia Persaud. Alicia is an artist from San Diego, California currently based in Santa Cruz. She has a B.A. in Art and a B.A. in Film and Digital Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work explores the concept of memory and how it informs her identity, growth, and emotions through using a combination of tactile mediums: painting, printmaking, and photography. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and Tokyo.

Next Mahjong club meeting is Sunday, August 25th, 1-4pm at Little Giant Collective. All levels welcome. Hours are drop-in, mo pressure to stay the whole time or arrive right at 1pm. This is not your mother’s mahjong, as in, we may have rule variations and need to phone an auntie mid game, but it’s all for fun! Make a new friend or MJ nemisis!

Sip ‘n’ Sketch this Tuesday, August 20, from 6-8pm! We’ll be bumping tunes by the Ronettes and other girl groups, just cuz. Missin u, Ronnie Spector <3 <3

Join us on Friday, August 2nd from 6-9PM to celebrate the exhibition opening of Navigations: Etchings and Woodcuts by Stephanie Martin and April Vollmer.

Bridget Henry is a printmaker based in Santa Cruz, California. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she currently serves as a Lecturer and Staff Research Associate. In her role, she manages the print shop and organizes the annual UCSC Print Sale. Bridget's work has been exhibited at the Shoebox Gallery in Los Angeles, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Center for Book Arts in New York City. She won first place for her animated poem "Omens" in the 2022 Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest.

Our First Friday show this month features work from artist Amy Losch in her new show, A Fly on the Wall. A Fly on the Wall captures the poignancy of ordinary but unexamined moments through the medium of stained glass.

Little Giant Collective is excited to present an enchanting new show from artist Holly Bobisuthi, In The Wild Wood.

Home is Other People (a solo show by Sadie Lynn) is a collection of portraits of people who made the artist realize that home isn’t a place. Transient, impermanent, and found in multiples, it’s who you grow with. 

Suck it Sartre! 

Join us on March 1 from 6-9pm for a solo exhibition from Louise Leong. Daily Soup (Drawings for Everyone and the Kitchen Sink) compiles a selection of drawings made between 2016-2024 for community events, political campaigns, diary entries, customer signage, birthday gifts for loved ones and more!

People’s Disco is a revolutionary socialist dance party based in Santa Cruz, California. Since 2016, they have thrown dozens of free parties featuring vinyl DJs who share their love of rare disco, funk, and boogie records. In addition to fostering an inclusive dancefloor, People’s Disco has supported social movements and labor struggles by providing institutional space for the Left. As their mission statement puts it: “We believe cultural projects are an important element in the struggle for socialism. Though music is no substitute for politics, it is critical for building bonds and solidarity in ways that cannot be done through organizing alone. People’s Disco is a place where we remind each other that there are others like us and we must find one another, and that there is a better world worth fighting for.

Cousins and artmaking duo Lorato Anderson and Ishmael Majola created Pula: Blessings through Botswana to explore joy through two experiences of Botswana, Africa. This collection includes paintings, photos, and multimedia collages featuring salvaged fabrics from Setswana cultural ceremonies and traditional clothing. This shows navigates the complicated relationships the artists have to the nation which  locals call the “womb of humanity.” The pair explore themes of locality, removal, and blessings interwoven through their born-and-raised and one-generation-removed perspectives.

Join us on May 5th from 6-9PM to celebrate the opening of a new art show “GUTS and stuff” by Tyler Benjamin Speas. Light refreshments provided.

Join The Fabríca and Little Giant Collective for a celebration of International Workers Day on Sunday, April 30th from 11:30-2:30. We will be making red pennants (flags) to celebrate workers and labor movements, followed by a procession to The Hub for Sustatinable Living where we will join the Free School celebration. Supplies will be provided along with various screen printing stations. All ages and skill levels are welcome. This is event is FREE

Celebrate the closing of Anne Martinete’s film photograph show “Double Exposure” at Little Giant Collective. WE WILL BE SERVING BRUNCH (WAFFLES!) to the sweet tunes of DJ Ugly Eye.

Join us at Little Giant Collective this Friday, October 4th for the opening reception of "Disasterpiece or My Introduction to Printmaking" featuring new linoleum prints by Derek Pratt.

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SIP N’ SKETCH

WEDNESDAY 9/18 6:30pm - 9:00pm

THERE MAY BE CHICKEN POT PIE AGAIN BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO COME TO FIND OUT