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UPDATED: Rego Needs You!

Rego is the absolute sweetest, tiniest one-year old cat who was rescued off the streets of Queens last week by one of our teachers and his girlfriend. They took her straight to the emergency vet to treat two large, infected wounds and the next day, we took her into our care at Cat Republic, and she's been recuperating at my place. Her cuts have healed up great and she has maintained her voracious appetite and become more social and playful as...

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Make a Contribution to our Programming

As we head toward our 10-year anniversary (eek!), we wanted to provide an option for contributions to be made without a class ticket needing to be purchased.

Running a small businesses is always tough, and especially so when you're based in NYC and your whole goal is to keep things affordable. (What were we thinking?!) Our costs go up each year, often more than we're able to make up by increasing class prices, and as we head into our second...

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Try This: Cyanotype Prints

Making cyanotypes (or "blueprints") is one of the most pleasurable fair-weather activities around. You get to make beautiful, indigo-colored photograms while hanging out in the sunshine, making it the perfect summer activity. 

Cyanotypes are a form of cameraless photography invented in 1842 but John Herschel. A sheet of paper (or fabric, or wood) is coated with light-sensitive chemicals. Objects are placed onto the surface and it's then...

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