Reconnect with your inner child through arts and crafts at Happy Medium’s newest location.
Whether for a first date , a bestie knack , or some me - time , New Yorkers are expect for ways to put down their screens and be creative . Also on a mission to revive the playful and inventive side of New Yorkers isHappy Medium — a cafe for masses 16 and older where arts and crafts like picture , clayware , and collaging make up the menu instead of bites and drink .
“ Happy Medium was really give birth from this pursuit of how could we be originative again and just make things , ” says co - owner Tayler Caraway . “ For us , art is all about making artistic production because it ’s fun and not because we ’re consummate at it . ”
After five successful long time at the flagship location in Two Bridges , Tayler and her husband , Rett , have expand the business with a new frontier settlement across the East River in Greenpoint . It ’s a welcome evolution ; reservation at the Manhattan artistic production cafe are regularly book out a month in progress .
Happy Medium’s new location in Greenpoint|Photo courtesy of Happy Medium
Similar to its precursor , the Happy Medium in Brooklyn offer reservation for easygoing fine art devising , as well as class in watercoloring , figure drawing , and more . In plus to the current menu of wiliness like Paint - A - Pot , the Air Dry Clay Experience , and the Watercolor Experience , Happy Medium project to tot crude oil pastels , gouache , and camp bangle to the lineup before long . As warmer weather nears , Happy Medium will also introduce its first open - air painting classes held in the novel locating ’s out-of-door court .
“ Art really does change your mastermind , ” say Tayler . “ We do n’t position [ Happy Medium ] as artistic creation therapy , but conjuration happens here . You ’re rewiring your nous and releasing endorphins . There ’s this after effect , we call it the afterglow when people provide — they’re buzzing . ”
Happy Medium ’s second location is now open at 224 Franklin Street in Greenpoint . Every two - hour reservation comes with a guile for $ 28 per person .
