Cut Loose - Craft & Connect Networking Workshop - NYC

Thu, Oct 15 • 6:00 PM
535 5th Ave
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Unleash your creative potential and network at this unique art-making experience, where everyone can create a framable collage to take home.

Make meaningful connections through group crafting!

The Cut Loose Collage Workshop lets you make, mingle, and sharpen your creative skills.

Research shows that engaging in hands-on creative activities not only enhances workplace problem-solving and collaboration (Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology), but also delivers a measurable boost to personal happiness and life satisfaction (Frontiers in Public Health).


About Craft & Connect

Goal: Offer a fun, effective, and memorable networking opportunity for LGBTQ+ professionals and allies that doesn’t center around drinking. 

Workshop structure: Make mixed media artwork on your own or collaborate with others! Follow a simple collage/mixed media formula and experiment on your own, with guidance from long-time collage artist and founder of Cut Loose Collage Workshops. We’ll end the event with a pressure-free art show.

Vibe: Relaxed. Leave all perfectionism at the door. Experimentation encouraged. Plenty of time to make and mingle. 

Come as you are: No experience required. All materials provided. Light refreshments and sober sips available. 

Outcomes: Make meaningful and memorable connections. A sense of accomplishment for proving to yourself that you are creative. Handmade artwork to keep or gift. Inspiration to include more craft and connect experiences in your life. 


Thanks to our host, Tina Beauchamp of North Fork Financial Group

About Creativity Expert, Michael Sjostedt:

 I’m Michael Sjostedt, and I help people have fun. Seriously! Through Cut Loose Collage Workshops, I create hands-on collage sessions that help people slow down, get off their screens, and reconnect—with themselves and each other.

Register Early with Confidence • Relaxed Transfer Policy


With limited space for 30 attendees, we recommend registering early. You can transfer your ticket to a later, similarly priced Out Professionals bespoke event of your choice up to 48 hours before your ticketed event.


Out Professionals is a 501(c)(7) nonprofit social organization in the USA. • EIN 13-3918457

OutProEd (Out Professionals Educational Foundation, Inc) is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit. • EIN 87-3853989 • Donations are tax-deductible.