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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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Hope @hopeamico.com · 3d

this class starts in two weeks!
#draw #learntodraw #queerart #drawing #practive
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"I Can't Draw" Drawing Workshop FALL 2025 — hope amico

October 19 - November 20, 2025 Lessons and exercises: Sundays: 2-4pm PST Study Hall: Thursday evenings 4:30-6 pm PST Lessons are recorded and available to students until Dec 31st. There is ...

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 10h

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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Hope @hopeamico.com · 2d

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

Hope @hopeamico.com · 3d

this class starts in two weeks!
#draw #learntodraw #queerart #drawing #practive
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"I Can't Draw" Drawing Workshop FALL 2025 — hope amico

October 19 - November 20, 2025 Lessons and exercises: Sundays: 2-4pm PST Study Hall: Thursday evenings 4:30-6 pm PST Lessons are recorded and available to students until Dec 31st. There is ...

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 5d

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A fire themed playlist with your suggestions.
#music #fire #thankyou #listen

fire by Hope Amico on Apple Music

Playlist · 14 Songs

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 6d

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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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 8d

NYPD raided a photojournalist's home & arrested them for *documenting* a protest, and escalated the charges to felony hate crime *for doing journalism.*

If you aren't familiar with NY Times's complicity & genocide apologia, read on and follow @wawog.bsky.social

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Activists Condemn Arrest of NYC Protest Photographer Alexa Wilkinson

Wilkinson was charged with a hate crime for social media posts critical of the New York Times’s Israel coverage and for photographing the vandalism of the media company’s headquarters.

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 8d

The Killer Klowns from Outer Space! They wrapped victims up in cotton candy which sounds lovely.

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Twin Cities Collage Collective @twincitiescollage.bsky.social · 8d

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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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 8d

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"

Hope @hopeamico.com · 8d

ok, research for a newsletter: songs about being on fire GO!

#songs #music #imonfire #hivemind #crowdsource

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · May 5

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

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 10d

Line Drawing/Text(ile), Sketch Part Two Printed on Fabriano Paper

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 9d

this sunday! online!

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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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · Feb 16

Chuck D and Flavor Flav said it best. Fight the power!

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 17d

sunday night sweetness.
#queer #queerjoy #portland #oakland #freekeychoir #writer

church for heathens

a little queer joy for your sunday night

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 19d

I missed type high day! but all my intro students know!

Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 20d

The Type High Prize mails out to all Print Club members that’ve been in the Club for a whole year (starting in September) to celebrate Type High Day (9/18). These ornaments were designed by me and cast by @bowerbox.com. Super grateful to all the PC members that keep the studio going!

Type High Prize package sitting on top of box of envelope metal type ornaments.

Type High Prize package sitting on top of box of envelope metal type ornaments. Explains type high day (9/18).

Inside of Type High Prize package showing matching set of envelope ornaments.

Hope @hopeamico.com · 19d

more artist trading cards from students from last month’s pay-what-you-can class. You can still join us this Sunday for a pay-what-you-can zine class, with the option to trade your creations! make friends through art!
#zinesky #collagesky #makeart #collage #queerart #artist
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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 20d

Now might be a good time for everyone to get into / rediscover punk.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 20d

Make time for making #DHmakes

Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 20d

Trying out some new old type very quickly while prepping a typesetting lesson for my students. I need more time for this. I need to make more time for this.

Quick print on red ink postcard stock of the last line of Percy Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy, ‘Ye are many —- they are few’, spelled out in 36 pt Bodoni bold italic. It’s been posted to a bulletin board covered in various marbled papers.

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 20d

another time! also it is recorded for participants!

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 21d

zine-curious? Im teaching a pay-what -you-can Instant ZIne class this Sunday! Online, and recorded for you, suggested rate $10-50 but you can pay anything $0- $10000! Join us!
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#zine #curious #queerart #queerzine #zinester #book #writer #author #enbywriter #enbyzine #enbyartist

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 21d

I love talking about the radical history of printers

who cares about zines?

another reason to make stuff

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 22d

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"

Unashamed to say this made me cry.

Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 22d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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Hope @hopeamico.com · 23d

my it’s-still-technically-summer vacation. like every thing these past few months it’s late and not as I planned but lovely. #rideabike #washingtonstate #souwester #longbeach #artistresidency #queerart

a shadow of a bike wheel and a hand on handle bars on a paved path surrounded by sea grass

the setting sun reflects on the shallow incoming tide