Shapeshift Studio

REGISTRATION: required, REGISTER HERE!
AGES: 10-17
PRICE: $30 / $15 / $5, sliding scale
DATE: Monthly, recurring
TIME: 12-3pm (drop-in style hangout, stay for full or partial time ; bring a lunch if you’d like)

Shapeshift Studio is a monthly creative hangout for therians, furries, otherkin, and other youth who are interested in or curious about these communities! It is a space for middle and high schoolers to work on masks, tails, and creative projects ; have some space for quadrobics ; share about their theriotype/fursona/kintype ; and just connect with peers with shared identities.

Shapeshift Studio

[REGISTER HERE!]

AGES: 10-17
PRICE: $30 / $15 / $5, sliding scale
DATE: Monthly, recurring
TIME: 12-3pm (drop-in style hangout, stay for full or partial time ; bring a lunch if you’d like)

Shapeshift Studio is a monthly creative hangout for young therians and other youth who are interested in or curious about therians (otherkin and furries are welcome)! It is a space for middle and high schoolers to work on masks, tails, and creative projects ; have some space for quadrobics ; share about their theriotype ; and just connect with peers with shared identities, since this can be a smaller IRL community for young folks.

*Shapeshift Studio will continue through the summer in our Lloyd Center Mall Studio! June 13th, July 11th, & August 8th. After our August hangout, the mall will be closing and ILYouth2 will be relocating. Shapeshift Studio may experience a short break as we move, but then it will start back up in our new location!!

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: A hands-on art camp for comics, cartooning, and storytelling. We will design our own characters, make comic strips, and draw a full-page comic by the end of the week! Comics Camp welcomes artists, creatives and storytellers of all levels. Let’s explore ways to let our imaginations run wild through COMICS!

INSTRUCTOR BIO: Camilo Velasco (they/them) is queer comic artist and creative living in the liminal space between Columbus, OH and Portland, OR. Their biggest inspirations are magical realism and mid 2000s webcomics.

They have been published in anthologies such as: Spitball, The OHC Comic Anthology, Pointed Circle, and Zocalo Public Square.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: A hands-on art camp for comics, cartooning, and storytelling. We will design our own characters, make comic strips, and draw a full-page comic by the end of the week! Comics Camp welcomes artists, creatives and storytellers of all levels. Let’s explore ways to let our imaginations run wild through COMICS!

INSTRUCTOR BIO: Camilo Velasco (they/them) is queer comic artist and creative living in the liminal space between Columbus, OH and Portland, OR. Their biggest inspirations are magical realism and mid 2000s webcomics.

They have been published in anthologies such as: Spitball, The OHC Comic Anthology, Pointed Circle, and Zocalo Public Square.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: A hands-on art camp for comics, cartooning, and storytelling. We will design our own characters, make comic strips, and draw a full-page comic by the end of the week! Comics Camp welcomes artists, creatives and storytellers of all levels. Let’s explore ways to let our imaginations run wild through COMICS!

INSTRUCTOR BIO: Camilo Velasco (they/them) is queer comic artist and creative living in the liminal space between Columbus, OH and Portland, OR. Their biggest inspirations are magical realism and mid 2000s webcomics.

They have been published in anthologies such as: Spitball, The OHC Comic Anthology, Pointed Circle, and Zocalo Public Square.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: A hands-on art camp for comics, cartooning, and storytelling. We will design our own characters, make comic strips, and draw a full-page comic by the end of the week! Comics Camp welcomes artists, creatives and storytellers of all levels. Let’s explore ways to let our imaginations run wild through COMICS!

INSTRUCTOR BIO: Camilo Velasco (they/them) is queer comic artist and creative living in the liminal space between Columbus, OH and Portland, OR. Their biggest inspirations are magical realism and mid 2000s webcomics.

They have been published in anthologies such as: Spitball, The OHC Comic Anthology, Pointed Circle, and Zocalo Public Square.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: A hands-on art camp for comics, cartooning, and storytelling. We will design our own characters, make comic strips, and draw a full-page comic by the end of the week! Comics Camp welcomes artists, creatives and storytellers of all levels. Let’s explore ways to let our imaginations run wild through COMICS!

INSTRUCTOR BIO: Camilo Velasco (they/them) is queer comic artist and creative living in the liminal space between Columbus, OH and Portland, OR. Their biggest inspirations are magical realism and mid 2000s webcomics.

They have been published in anthologies such as: Spitball, The OHC Comic Anthology, Pointed Circle, and Zocalo Public Square.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: This camp is aimed at storytellers, nerds, and gamers! Campers will explore all the elements of creating a card, board, or simple ttrpg. We’ll look at lots of rad, independent and DIY games, then bringing our own ideas to life. Campers can expect opportunities to make clay game pieces, zine rulebooks or gamebooks, cards, boards, and maybe even playmats!? There is no expectation to have a finished game at the end of the week (though it certainly could happen!), and campers are welcome to bring existing game projects or ideas to the table, or to come completely fresh!

INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Erika and daelyn met through Marrow PDX, and have known each other for almost a decade! Erika has previously taught ceramics and zine camps at ILYouth2, and daelyn has taught game design camps (among many others) at ILYouth2 and is also the director here. This is Erika and daelyn’s first time teaching a camp together collaboratively! They’re excited!

daelyn lambi (they/them) is a working artist, writer, educator, and youth advocate. Making and playing games is a significant part of their own creative practice, and they have made both digital and physical games. Their favorite games are ones that don’t require a lot of physical tools (like a zine and map, maybe some cards!) but still create entire worlds through player engagement.

Erika Rier (she her) is an interdisciplinary artist mostly focused these days on ceramics and art zines. Her work seems to change how feminine people are perceived in art and the world.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: This camp is aimed at storytellers, nerds, and gamers! Campers will explore all the elements of creating a card, board, or simple ttrpg. We’ll look at lots of rad, independent and DIY games, then bringing our own ideas to life. Campers can expect opportunities to make clay game pieces, zine rulebooks or gamebooks, cards, boards, and maybe even playmats!? There is no expectation to have a finished game at the end of the week (though it certainly could happen!), and campers are welcome to bring existing game projects or ideas to the table, or to come completely fresh!

INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Erika and daelyn met through Marrow PDX, and have known each other for almost a decade! Erika has previously taught ceramics and zine camps at ILYouth2, and daelyn has taught game design camps (among many others) at ILYouth2 and is also the director here. This is Erika and daelyn’s first time teaching a camp together collaboratively! They’re excited!

daelyn lambi (they/them) is a working artist, writer, educator, and youth advocate. Making and playing games is a significant part of their own creative practice, and they have made both digital and physical games. Their favorite games are ones that don’t require a lot of physical tools (like a zine and map, maybe some cards!) but still create entire worlds through player engagement.

Erika Rier (she her) is an interdisciplinary artist mostly focused these days on ceramics and art zines. Her work seems to change how feminine people are perceived in art and the world.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: This camp is aimed at storytellers, nerds, and gamers! Campers will explore all the elements of creating a card, board, or simple ttrpg. We’ll look at lots of rad, independent and DIY games, then bringing our own ideas to life. Campers can expect opportunities to make clay game pieces, zine rulebooks or gamebooks, cards, boards, and maybe even playmats!? There is no expectation to have a finished game at the end of the week (though it certainly could happen!), and campers are welcome to bring existing game projects or ideas to the table, or to come completely fresh!

INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Erika and daelyn met through Marrow PDX, and have known each other for almost a decade! Erika has previously taught ceramics and zine camps at ILYouth2, and daelyn has taught game design camps (among many others) at ILYouth2 and is also the director here. This is Erika and daelyn’s first time teaching a camp together collaboratively! They’re excited!

daelyn lambi (they/them) is a working artist, writer, educator, and youth advocate. Making and playing games is a significant part of their own creative practice, and they have made both digital and physical games. Their favorite games are ones that don’t require a lot of physical tools (like a zine and map, maybe some cards!) but still create entire worlds through player engagement.

Erika Rier (she her) is an interdisciplinary artist mostly focused these days on ceramics and art zines. Her work seems to change how feminine people are perceived in art and the world.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: This camp is aimed at storytellers, nerds, and gamers! Campers will explore all the elements of creating a card, board, or simple ttrpg. We’ll look at lots of rad, independent and DIY games, then bringing our own ideas to life. Campers can expect opportunities to make clay game pieces, zine rulebooks or gamebooks, cards, boards, and maybe even playmats!? There is no expectation to have a finished game at the end of the week (though it certainly could happen!), and campers are welcome to bring existing game projects or ideas to the table, or to come completely fresh!

INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Erika and daelyn met through Marrow PDX, and have known each other for almost a decade! Erika has previously taught ceramics and zine camps at ILYouth2, and daelyn has taught game design camps (among many others) at ILYouth2 and is also the director here. This is Erika and daelyn’s first time teaching a camp together collaboratively! They’re excited!

daelyn lambi (they/them) is a working artist, writer, educator, and youth advocate. Making and playing games is a significant part of their own creative practice, and they have made both digital and physical games. Their favorite games are ones that don’t require a lot of physical tools (like a zine and map, maybe some cards!) but still create entire worlds through player engagement.

Erika Rier (she her) is an interdisciplinary artist mostly focused these days on ceramics and art zines. Her work seems to change how feminine people are perceived in art and the world.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: This camp is aimed at storytellers, nerds, and gamers! Campers will explore all the elements of creating a card, board, or simple ttrpg. We’ll look at lots of rad, independent and DIY games, then bringing our own ideas to life. Campers can expect opportunities to make clay game pieces, zine rulebooks or gamebooks, cards, boards, and maybe even playmats!? There is no expectation to have a finished game at the end of the week (though it certainly could happen!), and campers are welcome to bring existing game projects or ideas to the table, or to come completely fresh!

INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Erika and daelyn met through Marrow PDX, and have known each other for almost a decade! Erika has previously taught ceramics and zine camps at ILYouth2, and daelyn has taught game design camps (among many others) at ILYouth2 and is also the director here. This is Erika and daelyn’s first time teaching a camp together collaboratively! They’re excited!

daelyn lambi (they/them) is a working artist, writer, educator, and youth advocate. Making and playing games is a significant part of their own creative practice, and they have made both digital and physical games. Their favorite games are ones that don’t require a lot of physical tools (like a zine and map, maybe some cards!) but still create entire worlds through player engagement.

Erika Rier (she her) is an interdisciplinary artist mostly focused these days on ceramics and art zines. Her work seems to change how feminine people are perceived in art and the world.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: A five-day “experimental music starter pack” where each day explores a different way of making and thinking about sound—from building contact-mic junk instruments to sampling, radio, field recording, and performance. Together, we’ll create our own instruments, recordings, and a collaborative “concept album,” while experimenting with how music can come from everyday objects, places, and ideas. The week ends with a playful, semi-improvised performance shaped by the group’s discoveries, open to all levels of experience and curiosity.

INSTRUCTOR BIO: David Weinberg (he/him) is the founder and lead teacher of New Sounds Skool, a lifelong dabbler of the arts whose work bridges experimental music, education, and collaborative play. With over 20 years of teaching experience across public elementary schools and Montessori and Waldorf preschools—and a background in underground noise music, intermedia art, and early childhood education (M.A.T., Evergreen State College)—his approach is grounded in the belief that “everything goes with everything.” New Sounds Skool extends this ethos into a vibrant, child-centered music program where structure and spontaneity meet, inviting young people to build skills, explore sound, and imagine new possibilities for what music can be.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: A five-day “experimental music starter pack” where each day explores a different way of making and thinking about sound—from building contact-mic junk instruments to sampling, radio, field recording, and performance. Together, we’ll create our own instruments, recordings, and a collaborative “concept album,” while experimenting with how music can come from everyday objects, places, and ideas. The week ends with a playful, semi-improvised performance shaped by the group’s discoveries, open to all levels of experience and curiosity.

INSTRUCTOR BIO: David Weinberg (he/him) is the founder and lead teacher of New Sounds Skool, a lifelong dabbler of the arts whose work bridges experimental music, education, and collaborative play. With over 20 years of teaching experience across public elementary schools and Montessori and Waldorf preschools—and a background in underground noise music, intermedia art, and early childhood education (M.A.T., Evergreen State College)—his approach is grounded in the belief that “everything goes with everything.” New Sounds Skool extends this ethos into a vibrant, child-centered music program where structure and spontaneity meet, inviting young people to build skills, explore sound, and imagine new possibilities for what music can be.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: A five-day “experimental music starter pack” where each day explores a different way of making and thinking about sound—from building contact-mic junk instruments to sampling, radio, field recording, and performance. Together, we’ll create our own instruments, recordings, and a collaborative “concept album,” while experimenting with how music can come from everyday objects, places, and ideas. The week ends with a playful, semi-improvised performance shaped by the group’s discoveries, open to all levels of experience and curiosity.

INSTRUCTOR BIO: David Weinberg (he/him) is the founder and lead teacher of New Sounds Skool, a lifelong dabbler of the arts whose work bridges experimental music, education, and collaborative play. With over 20 years of teaching experience across public elementary schools and Montessori and Waldorf preschools—and a background in underground noise music, intermedia art, and early childhood education (M.A.T., Evergreen State College)—his approach is grounded in the belief that “everything goes with everything.” New Sounds Skool extends this ethos into a vibrant, child-centered music program where structure and spontaneity meet, inviting young people to build skills, explore sound, and imagine new possibilities for what music can be.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: A five-day “experimental music starter pack” where each day explores a different way of making and thinking about sound—from building contact-mic junk instruments to sampling, radio, field recording, and performance. Together, we’ll create our own instruments, recordings, and a collaborative “concept album,” while experimenting with how music can come from everyday objects, places, and ideas. The week ends with a playful, semi-improvised performance shaped by the group’s discoveries, open to all levels of experience and curiosity.

INSTRUCTOR BIO: David Weinberg (he/him) is the founder and lead teacher of New Sounds Skool, a lifelong dabbler of the arts whose work bridges experimental music, education, and collaborative play. With over 20 years of teaching experience across public elementary schools and Montessori and Waldorf preschools—and a background in underground noise music, intermedia art, and early childhood education (M.A.T., Evergreen State College)—his approach is grounded in the belief that “everything goes with everything.” New Sounds Skool extends this ethos into a vibrant, child-centered music program where structure and spontaneity meet, inviting young people to build skills, explore sound, and imagine new possibilities for what music can be.

[more info & enroll here!]

ABOUT: A five-day “experimental music starter pack” where each day explores a different way of making and thinking about sound—from building contact-mic junk instruments to sampling, radio, field recording, and performance. Together, we’ll create our own instruments, recordings, and a collaborative “concept album,” while experimenting with how music can come from everyday objects, places, and ideas. The week ends with a playful, semi-improvised performance shaped by the group’s discoveries, open to all levels of experience and curiosity.

INSTRUCTOR BIO: David Weinberg (he/him) is the founder and lead teacher of New Sounds Skool, a lifelong dabbler of the arts whose work bridges experimental music, education, and collaborative play. With over 20 years of teaching experience across public elementary schools and Montessori and Waldorf preschools—and a background in underground noise music, intermedia art, and early childhood education (M.A.T., Evergreen State College)—his approach is grounded in the belief that “everything goes with everything.” New Sounds Skool extends this ethos into a vibrant, child-centered music program where structure and spontaneity meet, inviting young people to build skills, explore sound, and imagine new possibilities for what music can be.

two camps this week!

[more info & enroll here for: Kinetic Creations!]

[more info & enroll here for: Dream Worlds!]

ABOUT Kinetic Creations, an Automata Camp: In this camp we'll learn how to make several kinds of moving Automata toys! We'll start with clothespin automata, and then move on to simple and complex gear and crank cardboard automata.

ABOUT Dream Worlds, a Worldbuilding Camp: Do you make up entire worlds in your head? Do you wish you could make them real? In this camp, we’ll turn your imaginary world into real, tangible creations. We will explore questions like: What does a map of your world look like? Who or what lives there? What do they wear? Do they have their own language? How is their society structured? Using various art methods and mediums, we will draw, sculpt, and paint parts of each world to life.

two camps this week!

[more info & enroll here for: Kinetic Creations!]

[more info & enroll here for: Dream Worlds!]

ABOUT Kinetic Creations, an Automata Camp: In this camp we'll learn how to make several kinds of moving Automata toys! We'll start with clothespin automata, and then move on to simple and complex gear and crank cardboard automata.

ABOUT Dream Worlds, a Worldbuilding Camp: Do you make up entire worlds in your head? Do you wish you could make them real? In this camp, we’ll turn your imaginary world into real, tangible creations. We will explore questions like: What does a map of your world look like? Who or what lives there? What do they wear? Do they have their own language? How is their society structured? Using various art methods and mediums, we will draw, sculpt, and paint parts of each world to life.

two camps this week!

[more info & enroll here for: Kinetic Creations!]

[more info & enroll here for: Dream Worlds!]

ABOUT Kinetic Creations, an Automata Camp: In this camp we'll learn how to make several kinds of moving Automata toys! We'll start with clothespin automata, and then move on to simple and complex gear and crank cardboard automata.

ABOUT Dream Worlds, a Worldbuilding Camp: Do you make up entire worlds in your head? Do you wish you could make them real? In this camp, we’ll turn your imaginary world into real, tangible creations. We will explore questions like: What does a map of your world look like? Who or what lives there? What do they wear? Do they have their own language? How is their society structured? Using various art methods and mediums, we will draw, sculpt, and paint parts of each world to life.

two camps this week!

[more info & enroll here for: Kinetic Creations!]

[more info & enroll here for: Dream Worlds!]

ABOUT Kinetic Creations, an Automata Camp: In this camp we'll learn how to make several kinds of moving Automata toys! We'll start with clothespin automata, and then move on to simple and complex gear and crank cardboard automata.

ABOUT Dream Worlds, a Worldbuilding Camp: Do you make up entire worlds in your head? Do you wish you could make them real? In this camp, we’ll turn your imaginary world into real, tangible creations. We will explore questions like: What does a map of your world look like? Who or what lives there? What do they wear? Do they have their own language? How is their society structured? Using various art methods and mediums, we will draw, sculpt, and paint parts of each world to life.

two camps this week!

[more info & enroll here for: Kinetic Creations!]

[more info & enroll here for: Dream Worlds!]

ABOUT Kinetic Creations, an Automata Camp: In this camp we'll learn how to make several kinds of moving Automata toys! We'll start with clothespin automata, and then move on to simple and complex gear and crank cardboard automata.

ABOUT Dream Worlds, a Worldbuilding Camp: Do you make up entire worlds in your head? Do you wish you could make them real? In this camp, we’ll turn your imaginary world into real, tangible creations. We will explore questions like: What does a map of your world look like? Who or what lives there? What do they wear? Do they have their own language? How is their society structured? Using various art methods and mediums, we will draw, sculpt, and paint parts of each world to life.

Shapeshift Studio

[REGISTER HERE!]

AGES: 10-17
PRICE: $30 / $15 / $5, sliding scale
DATE: Monthly, recurring
TIME: 12-3pm (drop-in style hangout, stay for full or partial time ; bring a lunch if you’d like)

Shapeshift Studio is a monthly creative hangout for young therians and other youth who are interested in or curious about therians (otherkin and furries are welcome)! It is a space for middle and high schoolers to work on masks, tails, and creative projects ; have some space for quadrobics ; share about their theriotype ; and just connect with peers with shared identities, since this can be a smaller IRL community for young folks.

*Shapeshift Studio will continue through the summer in our Lloyd Center Mall Studio! June 13th, July 11th, & August 8th. After our August hangout, the mall will be closing and ILYouth2 will be relocating. Shapeshift Studio may experience a short break as we move, but then it will start back up in our new location!!

two camps this week!

[more info & enroll here for: Mircropublishing!]

[more info & enroll here for: Storboarding!]

ABOUT Mini Micropublishing 4 Zinsters in the Making!: This camp is focused on the practical and impractical lessons in zine making from two queer archivists; Buck and Blue. The history of zine making is rich and deep, and Portland is one of the best places to learn about it in the country. We bring together movements, anecdotes, moments and materials influenced by and explored within zines. We find it important to share the multifaceted cultural context behind zine making, and our experience in the local scene and enthusiasm for alternative perspectives means we're excited to give youths the means to create their own context and meaning within what they want to generate already. Art and writing can both be avenues to explore concepts that might be discouraged under a regime with an agenda. We want to create space for new thoughts and new zines, always.

ABOUT Storyboarding: In this hands-on camp, students will create their own storyboards from start to finish that is old school and drawn by hand! Taking inspiration from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey, campers will invent bold characters, face exciting challenges, and build complete story arcs.
Over the week, they will explore visual storytelling, character design, and camera angles, creating short scenes that could be animated in the future. By Friday, each student will have a colorful 8–12 panel storyboard telling a story entirely of their own creation.
This camp sparks imagination, hones drawing skills, and teaches the art of narrative storytelling - perfect for young artists, storytellers, and future filmmakers or animators!

two camps this week!

[more info & enroll here for: Mircropublishing!]

[more info & enroll here for: Storboarding!]

ABOUT Mini Micropublishing 4 Zinsters in the Making!: This camp is focused on the practical and impractical lessons in zine making from two queer archivists; Buck and Blue. The history of zine making is rich and deep, and Portland is one of the best places to learn about it in the country. We bring together movements, anecdotes, moments and materials influenced by and explored within zines. We find it important to share the multifaceted cultural context behind zine making, and our experience in the local scene and enthusiasm for alternative perspectives means we're excited to give youths the means to create their own context and meaning within what they want to generate already. Art and writing can both be avenues to explore concepts that might be discouraged under a regime with an agenda. We want to create space for new thoughts and new zines, always.

ABOUT Storyboarding: In this hands-on camp, students will create their own storyboards from start to finish that is old school and drawn by hand! Taking inspiration from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey, campers will invent bold characters, face exciting challenges, and build complete story arcs.
Over the week, they will explore visual storytelling, character design, and camera angles, creating short scenes that could be animated in the future. By Friday, each student will have a colorful 8–12 panel storyboard telling a story entirely of their own creation.
This camp sparks imagination, hones drawing skills, and teaches the art of narrative storytelling - perfect for young artists, storytellers, and future filmmakers or animators!

two camps this week!

[more info & enroll here for: Mircropublishing!]

[more info & enroll here for: Storboarding!]

ABOUT Mini Micropublishing 4 Zinsters in the Making!: This camp is focused on the practical and impractical lessons in zine making from two queer archivists; Buck and Blue. The history of zine making is rich and deep, and Portland is one of the best places to learn about it in the country. We bring together movements, anecdotes, moments and materials influenced by and explored within zines. We find it important to share the multifaceted cultural context behind zine making, and our experience in the local scene and enthusiasm for alternative perspectives means we're excited to give youths the means to create their own context and meaning within what they want to generate already. Art and writing can both be avenues to explore concepts that might be discouraged under a regime with an agenda. We want to create space for new thoughts and new zines, always.

ABOUT Storyboarding: In this hands-on camp, students will create their own storyboards from start to finish that is old school and drawn by hand! Taking inspiration from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey, campers will invent bold characters, face exciting challenges, and build complete story arcs.
Over the week, they will explore visual storytelling, character design, and camera angles, creating short scenes that could be animated in the future. By Friday, each student will have a colorful 8–12 panel storyboard telling a story entirely of their own creation.
This camp sparks imagination, hones drawing skills, and teaches the art of narrative storytelling - perfect for young artists, storytellers, and future filmmakers or animators!