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ORNG INK

We are a user-driven, youth-led, interdisciplinary creative collective located in Ironworks Studio, Orange, New Jersey. We provide workspace, exhibition space and mentoring for young and emerging artists through year-round free programs. We equip participants with marketable skills in creative fields. We encourage members to be positive, intelligent and creative forces in our community working to improve our neighborhood, city and world.

11
Feb
    OPEN CLASSES @ ORNG INK!
Written by Mike Mal

If you are ages 12-25 come and take part in our open studio workshops! Learn at your own pace or work on your own projects. It's about creativity and community! if you have any questions email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Here's the schedule.

@ ORNG INK this Week:
Monday 2/11- Open Drawing Workshop with Mike Mal 4-6pm
Emerging Artists MTG. 6-8pm

Tuesday 2/12- Open Playwriting Workshop with Gigi Hart @ 3:30pm
Open Painting Workshop with Mike Mal 4-6pm

Thursday 2/14- Open Comic Book Workshop with Mike Mal

Friday 2/15- Philosophy Friday- "What is Love?" Free Coffee and Bake Sale

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Peace.
 
11
Feb
    Open Drawing Workshop Today!
Written by Mike Mal

GESTURE DRAWING today at 4pm with Mike Mal.
 
21
Dec
    If the World Doesn't End...
Written by Mike Mal

Since 2008 ORNG Ink has offered free and safe community space for creative teens and young adults in the Valley on the border of Orange and West Orange, NJ. We wanted to see if young people could create art and community based on their own interests and needs if given the freedom, respect and support they deserve.

In 2012, our collective of vibrant and passionate youth nearly blew the doors off of the place. The experiment worked. What started as 8 high school kids learning graphic arts has grown into a collaborative work space for a multi-generational blend of amazing artists and supporters who cross racial and economic boundaries to share in art-making as a means to better themselves, their neighborhoods and the world.

Today is December 21, 2012, and the world is supposed to end, but our young people are just beginning to make the differences that they want to see around them, and their ideas and projects can't be scrapped just yet.

Please consider helping ORNG Ink raise support so that we can continue to provide a home for our young people to safely make art and community in 2013.

Click HERE to view our fundraiser on Indiegogo.

Here's to a Happy 2013.