Brooklyn ARTery

✨ Our first live figure drawing workshop!! ✨

Learn the basics of drawing and hone your observational skills while working from a live model in this introductory drawing class led by local artist and art professor, Camille Hoffman. In this two-hour course, students will have the opportunity to work on both quick gesture poses and longer sitting poses with the model. 

Featuring extra special guest model, Nostalgia!

Students of all levels are welcome.

✏️ Wednesday, October 16, 7:30 - 9:30 pm

✏️ $35 registration fee — register on our website under Happenings or at the linktree in our bio

✏️ Drawing boards, sketch pads, and pencils will be available for in-class use, or feel free to bring your own!

Tap the image to learn more about Camille and her work ✨

🔄👕🎈 It’s clothing swap time again!! 🎈🧥🔄

Every fall and spring we are thrilled to host a ✨community clothing swap✨ to give us all a chance to share what we don’t need and score some new treasures — for FREE!

🌟 Here’s how it works! 🌟

1) Go through your closets and find CLEAN wearable items that you don’t need anymore…..

2) Drop off items here during store hours between October 5-13th….

3) Return on Sunday Oct 20th, 11am-6pm, to browse all the treasures everyone brought in and score some new finds! (You don’t *have* to donate in order to come find goods on the 20th, but we encourage you to if you can!)

🌟 More details! 🌟

🌞 This swap is for CLEAN clothing, shoes, & accessories (belts, purses/handbags, etc) for ALL ages, seasons, sizes, gender expressions and styles

🌞Bring items that are in good clean wearable condition (free of stains, odors, holes, and pet hair)! Please save stained items for textile recycling — see grownyc.org/clothing for more info! ♻️

🌞Please be mindful of our dropoff window, Oct. 5th-13th. We’ve intentionally left time between drop-off and the swap date (Oct 20) so we can sort, organize, & display all the goods for easy browsing!

Spread the word with friends & neighbors and happy swapping! 🔄✨

🌿 Palestinian Storytime is back on April 7th! 🌿

Come meet Aya Ghanameh, author & illustrator of “These Olive Trees”, the story of a Palestinian family’s ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye.

Story reading and discussion with will be followed by book signing and an olive tree craft activity. 

Please note: This event is primarily intended for children ages ~4-8, but of course all siblings are welcome!

🫒 Sunday, April 7th, 10am – 12pm

🫒 Brooklyn Artery, 1004 Cortelyou Road

🫒 Cost: $30 (includes the price of the book + donation to recently arrived family from Gaza)

🫒 To register, visit our linktree in bio or go straight to brooklynartery.com/happenings

Many thanks to Aya for sharing her story and her time with us, to for sourcing the books 💛 and to the wonderful team of local organizers who helped to put this event together. We’re so grateful to you all.

🥂Wine Class is back!!🥂

If you made a wine Venn diagram of Elegance, Variety, and Hipness, the overlap would be France’s Loire Valley ✨

Europe’s longest river, lined with grand Chateaux and nature preserves, is home to famous grape varieties like sauvignon blanc, cabernet franc, and pinot noir, as well as a bunch of unique, under-the-radar ones like pineau d’Aunis and grolleau 🍇

Join very own Adam and Hannah as they survey and celebrate this rich trove of wine delights!

🔸 Thursday March 21st, 7:00 to 8:30
🔸 $50 registration
🔸 Taste 6+ delicious Loire wines…
🔸 AND earn $20 in Kings County Wines loyalty points with every registration!

Register today as spots are limited! Link in our bio and/or head over to brooklynartery.com/happenings ✨

Spring is almost here and so is the time to clean your closet! 🌞🌷♾️👢👜🎒🧤🧣👖🧥👕👠 👗🧥

We’re thrilled to host our first ✨community clothing swap✨ of the year and give all us neighbors a chance to purge what we don’t need and score some new treasures — for FREE! April 14th, 11am to 6pm.

This swap is for clothing, shoes, and purses/handbags for ALL AGES, all seasons, all sizes, all gender expressions and styles

🌞Bring items that are in good clean wearable condition (free of stains, odors, and pet hair)! Please save stained items for textile recycling — see grownyc.org/clothing for more info! ♻️

🌞Please be mindful of our dropoff window, Apr. 1st-8th. We’ve intentionally left some time between drop-off and the swap date (4/14) so we can sort, and organize all the goods for easy browsing!

Spread the word with the ones you love and happy swapping! 🔄✨

On this International Women’s Day, we wanted to take a moment to say hi as the two women who are honored to co-own this little shop and community space — where we also get to work with countless other incredible women both locally and worldwide. It’s safe to say that the vast majority of the goods we sell, the makers we host at our popups, the artists who lead our workshops, the activists who help organize community events….. so many badass women make this space what it is. Who run the world 💃🏾

As for the two of us, we’re Annie and Meredith, hi hello hola! 💞 We’re two people who are so lucky to share one business, one brain, and one ever-evolving dream for what we hope this space can be.

Meredith (originally from Austin, TX) is a former middle school teacher with two school-age kids who pivoted from teaching into taking over the Brooklyn Artery from the original founders back in 2020. Annie (originally from Quito, Ecuador) is a community-engaged visual artist and organizer who also wields a mean spreadsheet, who worked closely with the Artery for several years before joining Meredith as co-owner in 2022.

Together, we feel so blessed by how we share our values and visions, how we complement each other’s skills and quirks, and how much we crack each other up. We’re honored to run this space alongside a team of wizards, and to be a part of this community of fellow business owners and neighbors who continue to show up for each other through pandemics, floods, fires, and daily life in this crazy world.

We’re here today and every day celebrating the strength, worth, & grit of women worldwide, as we also continue to demand full rights, full pay, full bodily autonomy, full maternal health care, and full joyous lives for all the women of Planet Earth ❤️‍🔥

📸: the inimitable

The past few craft circles with .weekend.weaver here at the Backspace have been so lovely, and we’re excited to announce the next one!

🧵Sunday March 17, 4-6pm 🧵

🧵bring any type of craft/art project you’d like to work on (along with the supplies you’ll need)🧵

🧵it’s free & fun so just come!🧵

As usual we’ll have some teas on tap and the calm guidance of .weekend.weaver for any crafting Q’s 🧡

🌝⚖️ Full moon in Libra ⚖️🌝

We invite you to join us in a full moon circle on March 24th where we will embark upon a profound exploration of divine rage — an emotion that is often obscured by shame. 

This full moon falls under the sign of Libra, the sign of relationship and beauty. Libra is known for its pursuit of balance and harmony. While peace is the ultimate goal for Libra, within this sign lies the potential for repressed anger, stemming from its inclination towards people-pleasing.

In this circle, we will shed light on the ways we mask our own anger and delve into the concept of Divine Rage — a formidable force that serves as a guardian, signaling our needs and delineating our boundaries. The intention is to transmute this potent energy into a catalyst for empowerment and self-realization.

We invite folks to come dressed in comfortable light-colored clothing and to bring a journal as we prepare to move through various practices on our journey together.

Register soon as space is limited! Follow the linktree in our bio 💫

Pick up a delicious Amaro Falso from 🤩 It’s a great night cap or relaxing sipper, perfect the upcoming spring nights 🌸🌙

🌞🌱Fiber jewelry workshop 🌱🌞

•Saturday, March 9th
•2:00-5:00pm

Join us as we learn the art of ✨fiber jewelry making ✨ with Jessie (.weekend.weaver ). Come try this fun and functional craft and you’ll walk out with a handmade pair of earrings you can wear or give as a gift! 💝

Your $60 registration includes:
🌱An interactive lesson in how to make pompom earrings, macrame feather earrings, and rainbow earrings — skills that can also be applied to other forms of jewelry as well!

🌱All materials for jewelry-making

🌱 A lovely pair of earrings you made yourself

🌱 A fun afternoon with friends & neighbors 💗

Don’t snooze as spots are limited. Registration is required — find it on our website under Happenings or via our linktree in bio 💡✨

Check out our November Happenings at the Artery's Backspace! 🍁🌙🍷📖

Head to our website to see all the details and find registration links, or scroll down here for the same!

Also, hold the phone, it's almost November which means it's almost the Holiday Season....
Whenever you have your "Oh snap I need to start shopping" moment, we've got you! We're already getting stocked up for all your gifting and card-sending needs,
so come on down whenever you're ready!

November Happenings at the Artery's Backspace! 🍁🍷🌙 Click here for an update from Brooklyn Artery!

Check out our November Happenings at the Artery's Backspace! 🍁🌙🍷📖

Head to our website to see all the details and find registration links, or scroll down here for the same!

Also, hold the phone, it's almost November which means it's almost the Holiday Season....
Whenever you have your "Oh snap I need to start shopping" moment, we've got you! We're already getting stocked up for all your gifting and card-sending needs,
so come on down whenever you're ready!

Fall is right around the corner. Click here for an update from Brooklyn Artery!

*Last* chance to sign up for our *last* paint & sip of 2023! This Wednesday eve at the Artery's Backspace, 7:30-9:30pm. You'll be able to choose between painting a hardcover notebook or a canvas — both would make a great gift this holiday season!

Your $35 registration for this 2-hour event includes...
* One drink from our "bar"
* All painting materials including the notebook or canvas
* A fun casual painting lesson from Catilyn of Lemon Water Studios
* A great time!!

Head to our website to sign up and to see all our other October Happenings! www.brooklynartery.com/happenings

October is *full* of Happenings
in our Backspace! 🍂🍄🎈

Check the event board behind the register anytime you pop in, and scroll on down here too cuz the board's full with only half of this October lineup!

You can also check our website's Happenings tab anytime to see what's coming up... and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/thebrooklynartery/) for all the latest!

It's gonna be a fun month y'all!

Follow us (https://www.instagram.com/thebrooklynartery/) , check our website (https://www.brooklynartery.com/happenings) , or pop in the shop to learn more about any of our events.....

And if you have an idea for an event of your own — or want to explore selling your goods with us! — please take a minute to fill out our Event Inquiry Form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJj6cbouofzyF9Bqt1BWGVkeKrrlW3nlQvdUV2dAMx8pm-TA/viewform?usp=sf_link) and we'll get back to you if the idea seems like a good fit for the space! (This form's also on the bottom of our Happenings (https://www.brooklynartery.com/happenings) page.)

And for you lovely souls who read to the bottom of the email 💛 please enjoy 10% off when you pop into the shop this month! We love ya! 🐿

10% Off at Brooklyn Artery Click here for a free 10% coupon at Brooklyn Artery!

We are super excited for this new chapter of the Brooklyn Artery and we would LOVE to celebrate it with you! 🧡💙💛

For this BIG celebration we are thrilled to be joined by Triple Blind ( ), a group of incredibly talented musicians from the neighborhood! They will share their latest tunes AND as their special guest for the evening, Caroline Davis ( ) will be playing a solo set!

🥂✨We will also have some yummy local snacks and drinks (boozy & not).

🗓Save the date! Tuesday, March 7th
Doors: 7:30
Show starts at 8!

We were so excited to get to meet one of our amazing vendors today, Melissa of — whose goods we were thrilled to discover this past fall 🥰

Melissa founded Bonita Fierce candles in 2020, first as a Covid lockdown project which soon became a full-time enterprise. What’s so meaningful about this brand is the way it celebrates and amplifies Latin@ culture in its aromas — Coquito, Abuela’s Bakery, Cafecito con Leche — and in its very identity.

Melissa’s evolution out of the corporate world and into her own self-made jefa status is inspiring and exciting to be a part of — and most of all we’re simply obsessed with her candles 🥰🕯️❤️ Come check them out!!

💝VALENTINE GIVEAWAY💝
Shop with us this Sat 11th,Sun 12th & Mon 13th and let us show you some love in return! 💞✨
At checkout you can enter our raffle to win this lovely little collection, curated by us for YOU, whether you want to share it with a lover or a friend or just shower yourself with some much-deserved love. 💘💘💘

Over here kicking off the first full week of Black History Month with a spotlight on our *local* Black-owned brands, each of which adds their own specific magic to our shelves. We’re thrilled for this little shop to be one place where all these 🔥🔥 goods are showcased and shared with the community.

This month — every month — we celebrate Black History — Black creativity — Black entrepreneurship — Black joy — Black expression — Black women’s history — Black q***r history — Black trans history — and abundant Black futures 🖤❤️🖤

We also like to take this month to keep intentionally expanding our shelves and bring in more local Black-owned brands — we’ve got some good stuff teed up 😁 but please drop a name here if you know a local brand who’d be a great fit for us! 💫💫

Next Saturday, Feb. 11th. come and celebrate L-O-V-E with us!

❣️Meet rad local artists and makers, and discover their treasures! ✨
❣️Pick up something for yourself or someone you want to show some love 💌
❣️AND come to enjoy a little love surprise we have for you! 💫
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Ahhh we were so excited to get a visit today from one of our favorite makers — talented designer / creator / wizardess .banner 💜🔥🔮🔥💜

We ❤️ her products and restock them constantly — come check them out!!

We are so excited to share that we’re carrying some RAD new handmade jewelry by the neighborhood’s very own — one of the talented chefs at ❤️

Turns out when Steve’s not cooking fine fare, he’s been busy making these bold stainless steel statement pieces. Come check them out and rock a Steve Kong original ™️ ✨🔗✨

Just a glimpse at some fun ideas for Valentine’s Day whether you’re shopping for your boo, your best bud or your fine-ass self 💘💘

Friends!! Grab a warm bevy and stroll over to our ✨FINAL OUTDOOR POPUP✨ of the season this Sunday, 11-3!! Gonna be a beautiful brisk sunny fall day, and we’ve got a rad lineup of makers — .witch and more!!!
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Also….. if you’re wondering why our last outdoor popup of the season is in November 😉 stay tuned for BIG-ASS NEWS coming this weekend….. 😊🙏💫

Love y’all, hope to see you Sunday!!

Back to cool!!! It’s still a few weeks off, but stop in anytime soon for all your new-school-year needs — tons of fun & unique designs to tote your books & your lunch (& your water & pencils) in style 😎🎒📚💥

New artist / new goods!! I met Shaleia selling at this summer and we’re so psyched to now be the first brick & mortar stockist of her goods! What started as a doodle became an eye-catching design and now a brand ✌️ What’s more, she’s using the proceeds from the business to support study abroad scholarships for high school students, inspired by her own studies abroad 🔥🔥🔥