Limited Ink Studios

Having a lot of fun watching a screening of Pee Wee’s Big Holiday. I keep hearing about cool events and stuff happening here, but this is my first time at one. Cold beers, popcorn, foam bean bag, Pee Wee, some friends… Pretty cool!
Oh yeah, and really cool cardboard decorations, I’ll post pictures of what I’m talking about.

I strongly recommend never involving yourself with Limited Ink. Do not rent studio space from these hucksters, and taking «classes» from them is not worth your time or effort. If there was the ability to rate them lower than 1-​star, I would.
Renting studio space at Limited Ink is a frustrating experience to say the least. Upon meeting the managers they seem friendly enough, but really all they want is your money. Their tiny little studios are small enough to reach out and touch both walls with your hands. And renting a studio at Limited Ink does NOT give you access to the common room areas nor the drafting tables. And Limited Ink flat-​out lied about having adequate ventilation, which they do not, so working with caustic chemicals is a bad idea there if you value your health. But god forbid you dare take a project outside of your tiny little «studio» to work in the common areas, you’ll be scolded. Even a few items stacked up against the outside wall of your studio is unacceptable at limited ink. Of course you could rent a drafting table, but then where would you keep your stuff? It’s enticing looking at the photos of drafting tables in the photos, but you’d be better off in a coffee shop or in an actual workshare space, where you have access to printers and computers included in the rental fee.
And the classes at Limited Ink aren’t worth anything either. Limited Ink will try to steal your money by talking about community, which is hard to come by in the art world. The only pale attempts at «community» are a drawing as advertised on
, which hosts a rabble of young 20-​somethings who mostly drink beer. And they host «classes» by people without qualification. It seems enticing to want to pay Limited Ink to teach screenprinting, since that is so diy-​hip. But their set-​up is completely gutterpunk. Picture a large piece of glass balanced on milkcrates, with flood lights pointing up to expose your screen, and you’ve got Limited Ink (and their partnership with heavy-​gel). Their washstation is a shower. If you actually want to learn screenprinting you’re better off someplace else or at community college where you’ll actually have equipment to work with. The woman who runs the screenprint shop is nice enough, but you’d be better off paying a professional place downtown to develop your screens if you already know basic printmaking. I for one would not want to pay money to a place that doesn’t even have a darkroom! Oh, and there’s no parking lot, save for a next door recording studio, and that lot is usually filled up with musicians and their groupies and it gets locked at midnight, so night owls need not apply.