Limited Ink Studios

Having a lot of fun watching a screening of Pee Wee's Big Holiday. I keep hearing about cool events and stuff happening here, but this is my first time at one. Cold beers, popcorn, foam bean bag, Pee Wee, some friends... Pretty cool!!
Oh yeah, and really cool cardboard decorations, I'll post pictures of what I'm talking about.

Funny how a lot of these reviews do not reflect the authenticity of the space. Shout out to good friends!

i had to get someone to take over my lease, I was not about to finish it out at this place. Thank goodness I found someone because I was tired of hearing the renter across from me snoring all the damn time. He even had the nerve to buy gifts for me because he was embarrassed about him being drunk and passing out everywhere. Pretty much trying to buy me with gifts so I wouldn't complain on him for living there. Yeah I said it! Him and his friend who I thought were filmmakers ( so they said) were the most disruptive people I have ever met. I would be there late and all I hear is fighting from them... Bottles of alcohol and smelling of weed in the kitchen or hallway.

People were complaining about the smell of the paint I was using. But all I could really do were open the limited amount of windows. Poor ventilation, nosy, rude tenants. I've had food stolen from me several times and problem never got any better. Restroom and kitchen were always filthy.

So many negative experiences I won't even begin to list them. The only good part was dealing with Kelly. Other than that the owner is just eager to fill up space in a poorly maintained building. Never personally apologized about the POLICE RAID either!! One of the artists was pregnant and cops were pointing a gun at her!! All over a mistake the office made downstairs over some fraudulent document. Which for some reason required more than 10 cops going through our office spaces and having us lined up against a wall! F that!

I hated my experience. I spoke with some artists that use to rent from the space during my time there and even they didn't want to continue because of harassment and constant accusations from the owner.

If you are interested in lack of privacy, within a stale, lifeless building be my guest. Its easier to get positive reviews than honest ones, and that's all I was trying to do .

I'm a painter and had a studio space at Limited Ink for about a year. It's a clean, safe place day or night. Other tenants were respectful and quiet. Kelly, the owner/manager was very accommodating. There are on-going openings and workshop events you can sign up for if you feel like it, but no pressure if you just want to plug away at your own practice.

A huge plus for me was that the space has ac and that there's access to a kitchen with refrigerator and microwave.

Recommended for artists whose work is modestly sized since the individual studios are on the smaller size.

I strongly recommend never involving yourself with Limited Ink. Do not rent studio space from these hucksters, and taking "classes" from them is not worth your time or effort. If there was the ability to rate them lower than 1-star, I would.

Renting studio space at Limited Ink is a frustrating experience to say the least. Upon meeting the managers they seem friendly enough, but really all they want is your money. Their tiny little studios are small enough to reach out and touch both walls with your hands. And renting a studio at Limited Ink does NOT give you access to the common room areas nor the drafting tables. And Limited Ink flat-out lied about having adequate ventilation, which they do not, so working with caustic chemicals is a bad idea there if you value your health. But god forbid you dare take a project outside of your tiny little "studio" to work in the common areas, you'll be scolded. Even a few items stacked up against the outside wall of your studio is unacceptable at limited ink. Of course you could rent a drafting table, but then where would you keep your stuff? It's enticing looking at the photos of drafting tables in the photos, but you'd be better off in a coffee shop or in an actual workshare space, where you have access to printers and computers included in the rental fee.

And the classes at Limited Ink aren't worth anything either. Limited Ink will try to steal your money by talking about community, which is hard to come by in the art world.. The only pale attempts at "community" are a drawing as advertised on meetup.com, which hosts a rabble of young 20-somethings who mostly drink beer. And they host "classes" by people without qualification. It seems enticing to want to pay Limited Ink to teach screenprinting, since that is so diy-hip. But their set-up is completely gutterpunk. Picture a large piece of glass balanced on milkcrates, with flood lights pointing up to expose your screen, and you've got Limited Ink (and their partnership with heavy-gel). Their washstation is a shower. If you actually want to learn screenprinting you're better off someplace else or at community college where you'll actually have equipment to work with. The woman who runs the screenprint shop is nice enough, but you'd be better off paying a professional place downtown to develop your screens if you already know basic printmaking. I for one would not want to pay money to a place that doesn't even have a darkroom! Oh, and there's no parking lot, save for a next door recording studio, and that lot is usually filled up with musicians and their groupies and it gets locked at midnight, so night owls need not apply.