Shake Rag Alley

06/20/2026

✨ Join us TODAY from 4-6pm for Sardeson Day Volunteer Appreciation!

📍Sardeson Studio (223 Commerce St)

🥂 We'll have delicious food, libations of all sorts, thank you's for our volunteers, a wine pull, and lots of celebrating what makes our community so special. Our area is rich with people who give their time and energies, and we’re eager to share all the ways creativity makes Shake Rag Alley wonderful.

06/19/2026

📣 Workshop Spotlight 📣 You have two weeks left to register for these workshops with upcoming registration deadlines!

🧵July 9-12: Creating from Castoffs: Fiber as Sculpture with Lorraine Reynolds
📕 July 10: Zine Making Workshop: Share Your Voice in Print with Sandra Schoen
🪴 July 11-12: Large Mosaic Planter with Cindy Fleming
📚 July 11: Tunnel Book Workshop: Create a World in Layers with Sandra Schoen
📚 July 12: Kinetic Artist Books: Motion, Fold, & Form with Sandra Schoen

Save the date to join us for the following programs & retreats:
🥧 TOMORROW: Sardseon Day Volunteer Appreciation
🎭 June 28: Alley Stage Reading Series | Load-Bearing Walls
🍂 July 16-18: WOODLANDERS
For more information and to register, see www.ShakeRagAlley.org or call (608) 987-3292

06/19/2026

Today, June 19, Shake Rag Alley administrative offices will be closed to commemorate Juneteenth. Staff will be available to assist with workshops as needed.

06/16/2026

06/15/2026

You're invited to our Sardeson Day Volunteer Appreciation Event at the Sardeson Studio (223 Commerce St). This Saturday from 4-6pm, we'll have delicious food, libations of all sorts, thank you's for our volunteers, a wine pull, and lots of celebrating what makes our community so special. Our area is rich with people who give their time and energies, and we’re eager to share all the ways creativity makes Shake Rag Alley wonderful.

Thank you to our sponsors: American Wine Project, Cafe 43, Cummins Emission Solutions, Driftless Area Land Conservancy, Hook’s Cheese, Longbranch Gallery, Mayday Press, and Republic of Letters.

06/14/2026

📣 Workshop Spotlight: Creating from Castoffs: Fiber as Sculpture📣
🗓️ July 9-12
📍 Instructor: Lorraine Reynolds
🧶 In this hands-on workshop, recycled textiles and found objects become the foundation for expressive, sculptural 3-dimensional creations. Explore how discarded materials—old clothing, linens, and everyday objects—can be re-imagined into meaningful artworks that reflect personal stories and creative freedom. Through intuitive processes and guided techniques such as knotting, wrapping, stitching, and cordage-making, you’ll learn to unlock the hidden potential in castoff materials. Surface design methods including natural dyeing, bleach-out, and distressing will further enhance your pieces, adding texture and depth.
Register here: https://shakeragalley.org/product/26r0709l/

06/12/2026

Registration Deadline! ⏰ Monday's the deadline to register for the following workshops with space available!
🎪 June 25-28: Circus of the Curious and the Misbegotten with Michael deMeng
🧵June 26-28: Wonderful Waffle Weave with Carole Spelic`
💙June 27-28: Contemporary Prong Setting – Pendant with Susan Moberly

Save the date to join us for the following programs & retreats:
🎨 June 17: Makers & Shakers Art Party | Artist Trading Cards
🥧 June 20: Sardeson Day Volunteer Appreciation
🎭 June 28: Alley Stage Reading Series | Load-Bearing Walls
🍂 July 16-18: WOODLANDERS
For more information and to register, see www.ShakeRagAlley.org or call (608) 987-3292

06/09/2026

🍂 Before we know it, July and the Woodlanders Gathering will be upon us! Mark your calendars for our summer camp for adults July 16-18, register for more than 30 nature-based workshops before they're gone, and get ready for games Friday night, music on Saturday, ice cream sandwiches under the tents & trees—it's almost more fun than you can handle! For more information and registration visit: https://shakeragalley.org/retreat-index/woodlanders/

Thank you to Cafe 43, Longbranch Gallery, Republic of Letters Books, Mayday Press, Cummins Emission Solutions, Renée Graef Illustration, and Mound City Bank for sponsoring Woodlanders Gathering.

06/08/2026

Some locals describe Mineral Point as a Brigadoon — a remote and magical place, where anything is possible and diversity is welcome.

06/06/2026

🧚 Join us on TODAY 10am-4pm for a day of magic! We'll have face painting, a scavenger hunt for fairy homes all over campus, games on the green, plus workshops like Make-A-Fairy-House, Make-Your-Fairy-Wings, Cookie Decorating, and more—the perfect way to welcome the season!

🍦 The Sweet Life Ice Cream Parlor will be on hand with sweet treats too!

🎟️ This Shake Rag Alley tradition is perfect for families and artists of all ages. Admission $5 (Free for ages 12 & under). Fees for some workshops.

📍 Thank you to Cafe 43, Longbranch Gallery, Republic of Letters Books, Mayday Press, Cummins Emission Solutions, Hook's Cheese, Ivey Construction Inc., Re/Max true Action Realty, Marine Credit Union, Wisconsin Electrical Service, LLC, Aspen Ridge Home & Garden, Dan's Auto Centre, Wild Blue Yonder Coffeehouse, and Pointer Prowlers for sponsoring Fairy Fun Day.