Erie Labor Temple

10/10/2026

Erie Labor Temple, in a moment of silence, will be closed today and Sunday as our community grieves.

10/09/2026

Well, well, well...look what the proverbial black cat dragged in!

10/06/2026

10/05/2026

Let's take a little journey down the corporate/State hell path together!

THE NAME ON THE DOOR - Episode 01 by Erie Labor Temple on Patreon. Join Erie Labor Temple's community for exclusive content and updates.

10/03/2026

Earlier this week, we walked two blocks up State Street and into Jared K. Faulkner’s studio at PACA.

We went to look at paintings for the first exhibition at UNION Fine Art Gallery.

That sounds straightforward enough.

It wasn’t.

Jared’s paintings are big. Some of them are enormous. They’re stacked, rolled, leaning against walls, spread across the floor. You have to move around them. Lift them. Unroll them. Get close enough to see what the surface is actually doing.

And somewhere in the middle of all of that, UNION 001 started becoming less of an idea and more of an exhibition.

We’ve published the story of that visit today on the Erie Labor Temple Patreon.

It’s called THE OTHER SIDE OF PRECISION.

Patrons can read it now, three days before it opens to the public.
The Patreon is becoming a place for us to document ELT while we’re actually building it. Not after everything is polished and photographed and safely in the rearview mirror.

The artists before the exhibition opens.

The rooms while we’re still trying to figure them out.
The decisions that work.

The ones that don’t.

The conversations that change the direction of something.
Right now, two people are supporting Erie Labor Temple at the Salon Circle — $25/month level.

Two people may not sound like very many.

Around here, it feels significant.

They decided that what we’re trying to build is worth putting some actual weight behind.

If you’ve been watching Erie Labor Temple take shape and want to get closer to the work, come join us.

And if you’re in a position to support it at the Salon Circle or Founding Signal level, that support goes directly into making more of this possible.

Read THE OTHER SIDE OF PRECISION:
https://www.patreon.com/ErieLaborTemple/posts/other-side-of-171031942

Art. Work. Discourse. Built in public.

In Jared K. Faulkner’s Erie studio, control gives way to improvisation—and the first shape of a new exhibition begins to emerge. By Edward P

10/02/2026

The October Night Market was wonderful last night. More people are finding ELT, showing up, and engaging with the creatives in the building! I LOVE IT!

A deep, heartfelt thank you to everyone who came out last night and made it all worth it.

We had some "OG" Night Market alumni and a few new faces too!

I can't wait for the November Night Market. It promises to exceed all expectations on several levels!

Millcreek SoapErie Peddler's Stoop Sharon Smith Metal Arts Bookforge Cashewdude

10/01/2026

TONIGHT.

FIRST THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET
6–10 PM
ERIE LABOR TEMPLE
1701 STATE STREET

If you’ve been meaning to come see what’s happening inside the Temple, tonight is a very good night to do it.

Artists. Makers. Books. Prints. Pottery. Objects. Food. Independent creative work made by actual people, right here in the region.

Come meet the people who make the work. Pick something up. Walk around the building. See what’s taking shape here.

No algorithm. No shipping box on your porch three days from now.

Just people making things and people showing up for them.

Free to attend. All are welcome.

Doors open at 6. We’re here until 10.

Bring a friend. Come downtown. Find something real.

ERIE LABOR TEMPLE
1701 State Street
Erie, Pennsylvania

10/01/2026

A prompt is useful because it gives you somewhere to begin.
It becomes less interesting when it also tells you where to end.
For his INK SHIFT series THE HUMAN WEATHER, Edward Patrick Kranz is working from all 31 official Inktober 2026 prompts, but using each one as a condition rather than a subject.
A few figures.
A landscape.
Ink.
Distance.
Pressure.
Sometimes cooperation. Sometimes conflict. Sometimes somebody standing completely alone in a great deal of empty paper.
Across the month, those small situations begin adding up to something larger: desire, territory, belief, social identity, machinery, hero-making, fracture and adaptation.
Thirty-one prompts remain visible underneath it all.
But the point is to make them carry more weight than they arrived with.
THE HUMAN WEATHER
Thirty-One Gestures Under Pressure
The world arrives as weather. We answer with gesture.
October at Erie Labor Temple.

09/30/2026

Experimenting for the launch of INK SHIFT tomorrow...and Inktober 2026! Music by the talented TEHYA ⟡

Prelim-work for Human Weather
Artist: Ezju