Creators’ Club was born from a shared belief that art is for everyone.
When Altria of Owlpaca Studio met Lorenzo at the Jinny Sour exhibition, they discovered acommon vision: to make creativity playful, open, and free from rules.
Since launching in October 2024, the Club has hosted monthly workshops inspired by Jinny’s exhibitions—spaces where art lovers and curious minds gather to create without pressure or expectation, simply for the joy of making.
This exhibition celebrates the works born from those sessions—each crafted within just a few hours, using everyday materials and imagination. It’s a reminder that creativity has no barrier: if you know how to play, you already know how to create.
Join the Club and rediscover the artist within!
1 Collage
- Media: paper collage
- Materials: old magazines, scissors, glue
- Theme: various
When artist Yoshiaki Komatsu showcased his Bonsais made from broken-down ultra man toys at Jinny, we were astounded by his innovative approach to combining parts into a three-dimensional form. This inspired us to choose collage as the theme for our first workshop.
We prepared two sets of prompts: colors and adjectives. Participants then created their collages based on these prompts, expressing their creativity in their own unique ways.
2 Tangible Memories
- Media: mixed media
- Materials: printed photos, acrylic paints
- Theme: various
What does photography mean to you? A snapshot of time, a memory suspended, a story untold? This workshop ran alongside the collective photo exhibition PUNCTUM at Jinny, blending photography with paints and brushstrokes.
Participants layered thoughts, colors, and lines onto printed photos, bringing to life the feelings captured in each moment. Digital albums are convenient, but doodling on physical prints brought back the memories of when each shot was taken—making them tangible once again.
- Media: various paints on paper
- Materials: sketchbooks, charcoals, pencils, crayons, people who pose
- Theme: figure drawing
Owlpaca Studio, one of the hosts of Creators’ Club, started from the simple habit of sketching while people watching. Since 2023, they’ve been running fun, beginner-friendly life drawing workshops in Shanghai and have now brought the spirit of “pose, draw, play” to Tokyo. With hundreds of active members, Owlpaca Studio creates space for untrained artists, encouraging people to draw freely and without constraints.
Slide the bind open and flip through the booklet to see how different people express the same person through their drawings.
4 Bottle Sculptures
- Media: mixed media
- Materials: empty bottles, egg cartons, paper clay, grounded coffee, capsule coffee pods, acrylic paints
- Theme: various
This workshop drew inspiration from “The Life of Things” exhibition by Yugo Isaji, who transforms used plastic containers into bubbly sculptures.
Using empty beverage bottles, egg cartons, or anything destined for the trash as a base, we glued paper clay onto the surfaces to build sculptures. We added texture with ground coffee and color with acrylic paints. Recycled everyday objects came alive again.
5 Frottage - City Mapping
- Media: ink on rice paper
- Materials: rice paper, ink, puff stamp (you can make your own with chopsticks, cotton and a piece of cloth)
- Theme: city
Created to accompany the Big City Bathing exhibition at Jinny, this workshop encouraged participants to see the city with fresh eyes. Using frottage—placing rice paper over textured surfaces and rubbing ink to reveal the shapes—we gathered patterns from our surroundings.
With cotton stamps, ink, and rice paper, we captured tree bark, metal fences, stone walls, sidewalks, and even a baby’s foot (his dad’s idea👶). Together, we assembled our own “city maps”: collages of impressions from the neighborhoods that inspired us.
6 Tile Painting
- Media: paints on tiles
- Materials: glazed titles, ceramic paint
- Theme: collaborative story telling
When Jinny and Kosugiyu collaborated on the Sento-themed exhibition Yu-Asobi, I visited Kosugiyu Harajuku for the first time. While bathing, I began thinking about the workshop theme. In a space full of naked strangers, I realized how magical Sento are: they skip the usual social steps and move straight into quiet intimacy, where people simply share space and accept one another.
I wondered—could we capture that same silent connection through tiles? Instead of painting tiles individually, participants painted in sequence, each one continuing or responding to the previous person’s work. The mural you see here is built from those tiles, a design shaped collectively—a truly co-created space.
7 Mini Zine
- Media: paper booklet
- Materials: colored papers, cardboards, crayons, colored pencils, scissors, glue
- Theme: dream neighbourhoods
During Kittyzilla’s exhibition at Jinny, we were inspired by her playful, cat-filled illustrations documenting Jingu 2-chome’s shopfronts and stories behind and invited her to collaborate on this zine workshop.
The zig-zag zine format came from a trip to Spain, where I needed a pocket-sized sketchbook. It takes only 10 minutes to assemble with cardboard and paper strips. For this workshop’s theme, “dream neighborhood,” participants sketched their favorite spots along the unfolding pages, then folded them into a compact, pocket-sized treasure box.
8 Sando Zine
- Media: paper booklet
- Materials: colored papers, cardboards, crayons, colored pencils, scissors, glue
- Theme: various
Zines are small handmade booklets—creative spaces for stories and ideas that don’t usually get a spotlight. Made with simple materials like paper, pens, and glue, they’re scrappy, low-cost, and endlessly expressive.
For our second zine workshop, we made “Sando Zines”: stacked, sandwich-style booklets where layers became bread, cheese, and toppings. Each participant drew an abstract or concrete prompt and built their own “sandwich” around it. The results amazed us—each zine was lively, unique in structure, and full of its own story.
Can you guess what each zine is about?
About OWLPACA and Altria
Owlpaca Studio, a creative event organizer and community of artists and art enthusiast, will be providing guidance and hands-on support at the workshop.
Jinny Street Gallery