Its the most magical time of the year, again! Every year during October Make.Shift Art Saace hosts an Halloween themed open call art show. Its always amazing to see what people dream up and bring to our door step. Stop by for the First Friday opening. Cant make it? Dont worry we are open Thursday-Saturday 1pm-6pm to experience the show!

Great Odds Celebrate Create Passion

Featurng work by:

Serene Serblusek

Janae Holladay

Oepening:

Friday, September 5th

5pm-9pm

Make.Shift Art Space

306 flora st

98225

This August Make.Shift will be hosting a free outdoor event titled Radio Forever. First, we kick things off in the gallery! The Radio Forever art show is a group exhibition celebrating all things community radio and the analog technology that brought us to the present! This show features paintings and sculptures , an interactive theremin installation, a working telephone booth and a  historical collection on loan from the Spark Museum and Whatcom Museum. Join us for the opening of the show August 1st 5pm-9pm in the Make.Shift Art Gallery! 

"Come Outside" aims to showcase the dichotomy of the natural and built environements around us. Through this exploration, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the ways these spaces intersect, coexist, and sometimes clash. By examining our relationship with both, we can uncover new perspectives on how we shape and are shaped by our environment.

“Unchained: Art From Inside Whatcom County Jail,” is a gallery of art entirely from incarcerated people from Whatcom County. The show is coordinated by the Whatcom Pen-Pal Project, a writing program seeking to reduce the isolation of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) by facilitating connections between the inside and the outside world. Though the gallery features a breadth of themes and displays the range of people’s capabilities, a consistent theme is Envelope Art, the longtime prison tradition of using your letters to the outside as a canvas for your work. It acts as a form of resistance to the constrictive rulings of life while incarcerated. 

Future Mythology

The 8th anual collaboration between Make.Shift Art Space and students at Samish Woods Montessori! Students have imagined myths written by humans of the distant future,to explain and remeber events in human history still to come. These works are interpeted by local artists. Each artists response piece will be displayed next to the student painting that inspired it.

The Red Cathedral is a collaborative show, featuring chainmail by Good Boy Mercantile and paintings by Hypersymbol. The artists envision the Cathedral as a gothic medieval church, such as might be encountered by a wanderer in Arthurian myth. Within the Cathedral, the artists offer modern-day wanderers an opportunity to contemplate the mysteries present in our world, and to connect to far-distant generations of people who reached towards that mystery through religion, narrative, and art.

Opening reception Friday January 3rd 5pm-9pm

Make.Shift Art Space

306 Flora Street

Bellingham, WA

98335

In My Feelings" invites you to reflect on the vast spectrum of human emotion, much like the intricate layers of the feelings wheel. As you engage with these works, we invite you to explore your own emotinal landscape-both the uplifting and the challenging. Emotions offer profound insights into our minds and lives when we take the time to engage with them.

Opening reception Friday January 3rd 5pm-9pm

Make.Shift Art Space

306 Flora Street

Bellingham, WA

98335

Threads of Transformation encourages artists to reflect on how preloved textiles, once carrying another story, may be given new life and meaning through the artistic process. Whether it is a family heirloom quilt or scraps from a thrift store, each piece tells a narrative of sustainability, reinvention, and artists' vision.

Make.Sale Day two!

306 Flora street 5pm-10pm

Make.Sale Day One!

306 Flora street 5pm-10pm