Sip and Create: Sketching the Exquisite Corpse

Want to learn to sketch? Join us for a fun, collaborative sketching game to make sketches with friends Sip and Create: Sketching the Exquisite Corpse DATE: January 30, 2026 TIME: 4:30PM - 6:30 PM LOCATION: Merge Art Studio, 2000 Nance St. Studio B-126 A themed art night for creatives. Join us for a beginner-friendly sketching game. In the Exquisite Corpse, each participant helps build a series of sketches entirely from scratch. Make new friends and meet other creatives while learning the basics of sketching with pencil. This intimate creative session is meant to help you explore a new interactive art style and become a better draughtsman. Open to people of all backgrounds and experiences. About the Instructor Holly Lyn Walrath is a narrative artist focusing on the merging of art and words. From erasure poetry to radical zines to speculative fiction to poem paintings, Holly's work explores all things cross-genre. Holly has taught writing and art workshops online and in the Houston area for over ten years. Her writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Analog, and Flash Fiction Online. She is the author of three books, including Glimmerglass Girl, The Smallest of Bones, and Numinous Stones. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is the managing editor of Interstellar Flight Press, an indie SFFH publisher dedicated to publishing underrepresented voices and genres. As a freelance editor, she provides editing services for writers and organizations of all genres, experiences, and backgrounds, but enjoys working with new writers best. About Merge Studio Merge is the thought-child of artists Holly Lyn Walrath and Leslie Archibald. It's a space to explore the merging of minds and the merging of arts of all kinds. Merge hosts monthly workshops and creative experiences out of 2000 Nance Street, Studio B-126.