Artist Meetups For Men

Columbus Pencil Portrait Lesson for Complete Beginners

**🖌️ Sketch Hour: A Beginner Drawing Class** An hour-long sketching class that starts at this event's start time. Bring a pencil and a few sheets of paper, open the link, and draw along step by step with everyone booked into the same session. Today's class: **Faces**, portraits: where the features really go, and how to get a likeness. Every class ends with personal written feedback: upload a photo of your drawing and get specific tips on how to improve it. No experience needed. If you've ever said "I can't draw", this is for you. **Register through the link below** to book your place in this class. ### [✏️ JOIN THE CLASS ✏️](https://sketchhour.vercel.app/product/SketchFaces?city=Columbus&groupurlname=creative-minds-weekly-sketching-hangout-group&productId=400201&startgmtdatetime=2026-10-22T16:00:00Z) --- ✅ **What you get:** - Feedback on your drawing included, no subscription - Personal written feedback on the drawing you make - Just a pencil and paper, nothing to buy - Everyone in the session draws along at the same time Sit down, sharpen up, sketch along. 🖌️

Men's Group meetup

**The idea for this group is to build a community where men can gather together and build connections & learn and grow from each other.** How we start each meeting is by each of us checking in with our "roses and thorns" aka what are the good things and the bad things going on in your life recently? Then we will go into a topic discussion. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS** \*\*THERE WILL BE A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR NO-SHOWS. IF YOU RSVP TO A MEETING AND FAIL TO SHOW UP WITHOUT NOTICE, YOU'LL BE REMOVED FROM THE GROUP. THIS IS TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF THE GROUP\*\* 1. Confidentiality - EVERYTHING that is shared NEVER leaves this space so that this space remains safe and sacred. There is a zero tolerance policy for this. If a man is in violation of this, they will be permanently removed from the group. 2. Non-Judgement - we respect and honor every man’s truth so that we may receive the same from others. While we may not agree on everything, we commit to respecting every man’s perspectives and engaging in honorable discussion with one another. 3. Be committed - honor your commitment to this group and to yourself. If you attend a meeting, please commit yourself fully to the meeting. Also be committed to your own journey. When we fail, we own it & clean it up. 4. Speak from the heart - this is NOT a space to “look good”, have the “right” answers, and have it all together. Relax and know you are not alone. Be exactly who you are within the safety of this space. 5. Be supportive - This means always willing to provide encouragement to your fellow men, encourage action and momentum in each other’s lives.. Be willing to challenge each other. Be willing to hold each other accountable. 6. Participation - what you receive from this community will be a reflection of what you put into it. Period. We ask that you share your perspectives, reflect on others, and give/receive support when and where it’s needed.

Columbus Seeing Shapes Sketching Made Simple

**📝 Sketch Hour: A Beginner Drawing Class** An hour-long sketching class that starts at this event's start time. Bring a pencil and a few sheets of paper, open the link, and draw along step by step with everyone booked into the same session. This session is **First Lines**: the basics of holding the pencil, seeing in shapes and shading so things look solid. Every class ends with personal written feedback: upload a photo of your drawing and get specific tips on how to improve it. Complete beginners welcome: everything is taught step by step. **An RSVP on its own won't get you in.** Register through the link below to book your spot. ### [✏️ BOOK YOUR PLACE ✏️](https://sketchhour.vercel.app/product/SketchFirstLines?city=Columbus&groupurlname=the-weekly-sketching-circle-for-everyone&productId=400101&startgmtdatetime=2026-10-22T13:00:00Z) --- ✅ **What you get:** - Reference images on screen while you draw - Just a pencil and paper, nothing to buy - Everyone in the session draws along at the same time - A chat shared with the people booked into your session - Feedback on your drawing included, no subscription Sit down, sharpen up, sketch along. 📝

Butcher’s Crossing - John Williams

Join us for Butcher’s Crossing by John Edward Williams! In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

Columbus Gay Networking Speed Dating for Leaders

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ACTIVE WOMEN Photo Shoot!!!

Please humor me. I think this is going to be SOOO much fun! I'd like to get a new pic for our home page on meetup that depicts what we are really about. With FUN being a huge part of that. Still dreaming this and probably will be until the camera clicks but thinking we'll meet a Highbanks. I'll bring big sheets of paper that we can write the letters A C T - you know the rest. We'll make these letters fancy! We will need at least 11 women if we only do the letters and 12 with the 55+. But the really fun part is the props. We're just getting started but I'd like y'all to bring whatever props you can think of that depict activities that we've done - or hope to do. This means bicycles, hiking boots, decks of cards, board games, if someone can bring their dog that would be cool. A paddle board or kayak (I'm imagining a kayak in the front of the group with a woman rowing :). Trying to convince Linda J. to bring one of the APES from the sanctuary :). I've ordered a blow up calf - need a baby bottle to feed it. . . what could we have that would represent recycling or trash? We like to eat out so a plate of food? Mug of beer? Coffee? Bouquets of flowers for the Conservatory etc.? Hoes for conservation work? If you have markers or paints that would be awesome. What else? I hope you think this will be as fun as I do . . . so many fun and creative women in this group! Please list any props you're willing to bring in the comments :). Oh, and we'll walk for maybe 3 miles afterward and then have an optional lunch.

80s & 90s Hip-Hop & R&B Sip & Paint

**Get ready to paint, sip, vibe, and take a trip back to one of the BEST eras of music!** **Big Troy Events × Energy Powered Productions present an 80’s & 90’s Hip-Hop & R&B Sip & Paint at Ivan Kane’s Forty Deuce in Columbus, Ohio.** **📅 Sunday, October 18, 2026** **⏰ 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM** **📍 Ivan Kane’s Forty Deuce** **3959 Brighton Rose Square** **Columbus, OH 43219** **🎧 WHAT TO EXPECT** **Come ready for an afternoon filled with:** * **🎨 Sip & Paint fun** * **🎶 Your favorite 80’s & 90’s Hip-Hop & R&B** * **🎧 Sounds by DJ Lil Man** * **🍽️ Food available for purchase** * **🍹 Drinks available for purchase** * **💃🏾 Good music, great energy & grown vibes** * **📸 Plenty of photo-worthy moments** * **🖌️ A painting you get to take home** **No painting experience needed! Whether you’re an artist or haven’t picked up a paintbrush since school, come have fun and create something that’s uniquely yours.**

Fall Arts & Crafternoon

**Join us for a Fall Sunday Crafternoon!** Whether you are looking to carve out dedicated creative time, wanting to get a lingering project across the finish line, or just looking to chat with fellow local makers—this is the space for you. 🧵 **What to Bring** Bring any art or craft project you are currently working on, as long as it is portable and quiet. Think: * **Yarn & Thread:** Knitting, crochet, embroidery, cross-stitch, hand-sewing, mending. * **Paper & Sketching:** Sketchbooks, adult coloring books, watercolors, bullet journaling. * **Digital:** Tablets, iPad drawing, laptop writing/design. * *Please note: Because we are meeting in a shared public space, no power tools, sewing machines, or high-odor materials (like strong solvents or spray glues), please!* **📍 Where to Find Us** * We will be meeting at **Columbus Metropolitan Library - Parsons Branch** in **Meeting Room 1**. Room is reserved under **CBUS Maker Meetup.** **⏱️ Timeline** * **1:30 PM:** Arrive, grab a seat, get settled, and do a quick round of introductions so we can see what everyone is working on. * **1:45 PM - 3:30 PM:** Open maker time! Chat, craft, relax, and swap creative ideas. **⚠️ A Note on RSVPs** Space for this meetup is limited to 10 spots. If your plans change and you can no longer attend, please update your RSVP to "Not Going" as soon as possible so someone on the waitlist can grab your spot. We ask that you try to give at least 48 hours' notice if you need to cancel. *** **We can't wait to meet you and see what you're making! All skill levels welcome.**

Free Movie Night: The Craft

Columbus Verified Gay Singles in Your City

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Creativity Circle: Wreath Making

Come join WQC in making simple wreaths for the season using adhesive rings and fabric leaves. A good craft for any skill level. Seats and supplies limited! Come while you can for as long as you like! Westerville Public Library in Meeting Room D.