The Open Table - February
The Open Table
A Monthly Note from The Green Room at 831
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A Seat in the Room
The Green Room has always felt more like a house than a storefront. Conversation and connection is key here.
This page is where people are welcome to gather. Not to present, pitch, or perform, but to share what’s on their table right now.
Maybe it’s a painting still drying by the window.
A space you’re slowly bringing together.
A book you keep coming back to.
Or an idea you haven’t decided what to do with yet.
If you’ve found your way here, you already belong.
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What This Is
The Open Table is a living page inside The Green Room at 831.
It’s a space for artists, designers, and collectors to leave a small note in the room. Share a moment, a work in progress, a favorite piece, or a glimpse into what’s shaping their creative world right now.
There’s no theme to follow.
No timeline to keep.
Just a place to set something down and let it be seen.
From time to time, a handful of notes will be shared on our Community Board and featured inside the Green Room. If you leave your Instagram, we’ll tag you when your words or work make their way into the room.
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This Month at the Table - February 2026
What’s something in your creative world that feels unfinished, in a good way?
A piece you’re still sitting with. A space you’re still shaping. A thought you’re letting stay open instead of closing too quickly.
If you’d like, leave a few words in the comments, and feel free to include a link to your work, a post, or your space so we can wander over and take a look.
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Pull Up a Chair
Leave a note for the room using the form below.
You can sign your name, your studio, or simply say hello.
If you’re an artist, designer, collector, or someone who just wandered in, you’re welcome here!
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A Small Note from the Host
Some of the most meaningful work begins before it knows what it’s becoming.
This table is here for that in-between space.
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Previous Notes
(This section will grow over time.)
As the months pass, earlier prompts and featured notes will live here. Like a small archive of what’s been shared, made, and discovered inside the Green Room.
In Closing
The door is always open.
Come back whenever you have something to place here.
4 comments
I find myself thinking of the future possibilities of leading creative workshops. I’m exploring the idea of what that would look like.., how can I connect with others? I want the creative process that builds healthy relationships. I want to live fully and love others deeply. Sharing laughter hugs while creating art. Making the world better for everyone. Simply choosing to love others well.
I love this idea, Tianna! I’ll need to connect with the poster above because like her, I am working with cyanotypes, and this month I created one that was so beautiful and filled with coastal colors of aqua and shades of blue and white that after it was developed I didn’t want to rinse the print. Rinsing it washes away those colors and turns it to cyan blue and white permanently. So, I took high res photos of the print with the colors I loved and now I’m in the process of adding the colors back into the original cyanotype with water colors. You can see my cyanotypes and photography on instagram at @anchorandbloom_co
Thank you for creating this open table space! I look forward to meeting more of your community.
Love,
Beth
ooooh Tianna,I love this! One of the pieces on my desk this week is an interactive coastal cyanotype that I have been trying to bring to life for a while now. I am trying something new for me and I am hoping to finish it someday soon…and if my cat will cooperate and stop sitting in the middle of it, maybe it will finally happen :) Feel free to stop on by and say hi and follow its progress… https://www.instagram.com/p/DUQj5S8jrXT/
I’ll start us off. Lately I’ve been sitting with the idea of building a space that feels more like a house than a platform. Somewhere people can leave a little piece of what they’re working on without needing it to be “finished.”
Right now, my table has a stack of half-marked pages, a cup of coffee that’s gone cold, and a list of artists and designers I want to introduce to each other this month.
What’s sitting on your table today?