Figure draw comedians and laugh your ass off at LAUGH & DRAW

When: April 25, 7 p.m.
Where: Q.arma building, Q.Underground Gallery
Cost: $20 (student discounts available).

Paper and pencils are provided.

Join us on the spring equinox for Q.arma Building’s Spring Open Studios & Dinner Party.

After Open Studios we are hosting a potluck Spring Table dinner party in Q.arma’s Courtyard. Bring a dish, snack, or desert if you feel like it.

Open Studios: 12-6pm
Spring Table: 7-10pm

Gifting Q.arma

Gifting Q.arma is our annual winter holiday open house. Gifting Q.arma’s Open Studios will be brimming with the ceramics, textiles, print-making, painting, wood working, photography and the crazy creativity of our artists.

Join us and super-charge your gift giving game by shopping local artists, creatives and makers this holiday season.

Figure draw comedians and laugh your ass off at LAUGH & DRAW

When: December 11, 7 p.m.
Where: Q.arma building, Q.Underground Gallery
Cost: $20 (student discounts available).

Paper and pencils are provided.

It’s a great time to visit with our artists and explore the gems and treasures from the creative makers in our arts community.

Featuring: Pottery, Prints, Jewelry, Paintings, Clothing, Woodworks, Sculptures, Ceramics, Screenprints, Paper goods, Candles, etc.

Saturday, November 30, 12-6pm

Andrea Bagdon's Solo Exhibition: "Fracturing the Symbolic"
Q.arma Underground Gallery, Minneapolis

November 8th - November 23rd, 2024
Closing Reception & Artist Talk: Saturday, November 23rd, 3:00-5:00 pm

Exhibition Statement: Andrea Bagdon’s latest body of work explores the shifting boundaries of femininity and contemporary domesticity through a dialogical interplay of digital time-based media and traditional oil and encaustic painting. Influenced by psychoanalytic theory, the work draws viewers into a space where meaning is in constant flux, revealing the tension between the self and the fragile boundaries that shape experience.

Figure draw comedians and laugh your ass off at LAUGH & DRAW

When: November 20, 7 p.m.
Where: Q.arma building, Q.Two Gallery, 1224 Quincy St. NE, Minneapolis
Info: laughanddraw.com or @laughanddraw on Instagram
Cost: $20 (student discounts available). Paper and pencils provided!

Q.arma artists are excited to host open studios and we welcome you to join us. It’s a great time to pick up holiday gifts, and share in friendship before the long hibernation settles in.

Saturday, November 9th, 12-6pm

Andrea Bagdon's Solo Exhibition: "Fracturing the Symbolic"
Q.arma Underground Gallery, Minneapolis

November 8th - November 23rd, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, November 8th, 6:00-9:00 pm
Closing Reception & Artist Talk: Saturday, November 23rd, 3:00-5:00 pm

Exhibition Statement: Andrea Bagdon’s latest body of work explores the shifting boundaries of femininity and contemporary domesticity through a dialogical interplay of digital time-based media and traditional oil and encaustic painting. Influenced by psychoanalytic theory, the work draws viewers into a space where meaning is in constant flux, revealing the tension between the self and the fragile boundaries that shape experience.

Figure draw comedians and laugh your ass off at LAUGH & DRAW

When: October 30, 7 p.m.
Where: Q.arma building, Q.Two Gallery, 1224 Quincy St. NE, Minneapolis
Info: laughanddraw.com or @laughanddraw on Instagram
Cost: $20 (student discounts available). Paper and pencils provided!

When: September 24, 7 p.m.
Where: Q.arma building, Q.Underground Gallery, 1224 Quincy St. NE, Minneapolis
Info: laughanddraw.com or @laughanddraw on Instagram
Cost: $20 (student discounts available). Paper and pencils provided!

Local comedians Lucy Beers Shenk (Winner, Funniest Person in Time and Space at Comedy Corner Underground Minneapolis), Sarah McPeck and Erick Austin (Runner-Up, Funniest Person with a Day Job at House of Comedy), and comedic storyteller E. Ravi entertain while audience members figure draw them! Regardless of your drawing level, you can learn how to draw and have fun!

It’s not that hard to figure draw comics while cracking up. Or is it? Artists and art lovers try to laugh and figure draw comedians at Laugh & Draw, the quirkiest comedy show in town. Comics hold poses for up to five minutes. The monthly show starts with a 15-minute figure drawing lesson from artist Michael Gaughan, and is hosted by comedian and art critic Alicia Kismet (Alicia Eler is her byline). 

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS SHOW WILL GO TOWARDS ANIMAL RESCUE EFFORTS IN TÜRKIYE, WHERE A DANGEROUS NEW LAW WAS PASSED.

So Far, So Close
Exhibition by Katayoun Amjadi, Shirin Goraishi, Ziba Rajabi
Q.Underground Gallery (basement level)
Sept 6-26, 2024

Closing Reception: Saturday, Sept 21, 3-5 PM

The So Far, So Close exhibition explores the complicated experience of displacement from the motherland through themes of space, distance, and memory by Iranian female artists who reside outside of Iran by choice or by force.

Join us on the Autumnal equinox for Q.arma Building’s Fall Open Studios & Dinner Party.

After open Studios we are hosting a fundraising dinner party to feed children in conflict zones via World Central Kitchen.

Our artists will donate work to the event. Guests will be able to make a contribution and select a work from Q.arma artists to take home as a memento of our Fall Table.

Open Studios: noon to 6PM
Fall Table: 7-10PM

Figure draw comedians and laugh your ass off at LAUGH & DRAW

Local comedians Corina Lucas (2nd place, Portland's Funniest Person Contest), Elizabeth Selin (Finalist, Funniest Person with a Day Job at House of Comedy), Raj Uppal and comedic storyteller E. Ravi entertain while audience members draw them! 

It’s not that hard to figure draw comics while cracking up. Or is it? Artists and art lovers try to laugh and figure draw comedians at Laugh & Draw, the quirkiest comedy show in town. Comics hold poses for up to five minutes. The monthly show starts with a 15-minute figure drawing lesson from artist Michael Gaughan, and is hosted by comedian and art critic Alicia Kismet Eler. 

Laugh and Draw is my attempt at bringing together my two passions in life: Telling jokes and looking at art,” Eler said. “It’s pretty wild that this is all happening in the basement of an artist studio building in Minneapolis!”

Inspiration for the show came from Gaughan's drawing classes at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

“In my personal artwork and my classroom, I am always looking for ways to combine art and humor,” Gaughan said. “I love helping people feel empowered to express themselves through art.” 

Gaughan coordinated the first show at MCAD during finals week last April, and then took it to the public in May with a show at North Suburban Center for the Arts in Fridley (now closed). Eler performed on that show, too, and then asked if she could host the show and book the comedians. The two teamed up and brought the show back to Minneapolis, landing at q.arma underground, located in the basement of q.arma building, an artist studio building in NE Minneapolis.

As co-producers, Gaughan and Eler are very excited to have this month’s show at q.arma building once again. Thus far, Laugh and Draw has featured the local talents of Comrade Tripp, Devohn Bland, Lefty Crumpet (Justin Johnson), Aron Woldeslassie, Alexa Kocinski, Phil Kolas, James Stanley, Matt Dooyema, Cianna Violet, Ivy Evrard, and more! 

Laugh & Draw

comedy and figure drawing night

Come celebrate the longest day of the year with us at Q.arma Building’s Summer Open Studios.

After Open Studios we are hosting a fundraising dinner party to feed children in conflict zones through World Central Kitchen. Our artists will donate work to the event. Guests will be able to make a contribution to the WCK donation link and select a work from Q.arma artists to take home as a memento of Summer Table.

Open Studios from noon to 6PM
Summer Table from 7-10PM

Q.arma Building would like to invite you to our Holiday Open House Thursday, December 21, from 4-10PM.

Gifting Q.arma is our annual winter holiday open house. This year we will host the event on December 21. It’s the winter solstice as well as the great Persian holiday - YALDA.

Yalda Night celebrates the shortest day/longest night of the year and is a really beautiful time to gather with family, friends and community to eat, drink, listen to music and read the poetry of Hafez for glimpses into your future.

Gifting Q.arma’s Open Studios will be brimming with the ceramics, textiles, print-making, painting, wood working, photography and the crazy creativity of our artists.

Join us and super-charge your gift giving game by shopping local artists, creatives and makers this holiday season.

Join us for a celebration of art by local artists including functional and sculptural ceramics, exquisite textiles from India, and Hindustani classical music accompanied by Western guitar

Saturday, December 2nd: 12-8pm

Art is Life: The Art of Ron Mosman

Opening Reception
February 11, 2023 - 6:00pm

Come join us for pre-holiday shopping event

Saturday, December 3rd, 1-8pm

Participating Artists: Three Circle Shop, Kevin & Kristin Showell, Asher Campbell, North Star Print Makers, Dan Rafael, Studio Ruyee & Heinz Brummel, Minneapolis Clay Collective