Inspire
Ogden
Ogden's creative underground.
Quarterly gatherings for artists who don't quite fit the mold.
Create. Share. Be inspired. Connect.
You belong here.
Ogden's creative scene is something special. And for a while, it felt like it deserved more than markets and the occasional gallery opening. It deserved a home. Something consistent. Something that shows up for artists the way artists show up for this city.
So we built it.
Inspire Ogden is a quarterly exhibition series --
Four events a year, one per season, each one built around a theme or experience that pushes artists to make new work, show up differently, and connect in a real way.
This is for the artists, makers, and thinkers who never quite fit.
The ones making work anyway.
The ones whose work gets overlooked, questioned, or misunderstood.
This is where it gets shown. This is where it gets seen.
We are done waiting for permission.
We are building the culture we want together.
Because Ogden's creative scene isn't something we inherit, it's something we make.
Four Times a Year
We Prove It
Every season has its own format, its own feeling, and its own invitation to show up
Summer: Opening June 5, 2026 · Two Bit Bistro, Ogden
Oingapatchk
You know that piece you abandoned? The one sitting in a corner, half-done because you didn't know where it was going? That's the one. Oingapatchk is a collaborative exhibition, an open call for unfinished work.
Submit something you couldn't figure out how to finish.
We pair you with another artist -- different medium, different perspective -- and together you complete it.
The result is something neither of you could have made alone.
Open call launches April 19th
The Showcase
Fall: September 4, 2026 · Two Bit Bistro, Ogden
Every fall, Inspire Ogden picks a theme -- and it's never the one you were expecting. That's the point.
The theme exists to shake you loose from the work you already know how to make. To push you past your current vibe and into something weirder, bolder, more alive. This year, we're asking you to go there. All the way there. Make something overly done. Make something so far outside the box it surprises even you. Make something that makes people stop and say -- wait, what is that?
This year's theme is The Gloriously Absurd.
All mediums. Minimum three pieces. No ceiling.
Come ready to make something you've never made before.
Planar Festival
Winter: January 2, 2027 · Two Bit Bistro, Ogden
A selected group of artists. One night. One prompt -- revealed the day of the event.
Nobody knows what they're making until they're already making it.
That's what makes this one different. There's no rehearsal, no preview, no polished final product waiting in the wings. Just artists responding to a prompt in real time, in the room, while you watch it happen. By the end of the night, the walls are full, and every piece goes up for silent auction -- made that day, in front of the people who get to take it home.
Come for the art. Stay because you can't look away. Leave with something on your wall that has a story behind it
that you actually witnessed.
Youth Showcase
Spring: April 3, 2027 · Two Bit Bistro, Ogden
This one isn't for us. It's for them.
The Youth Showcase is built in partnership with local schools to give young artists what most of them have never had -- a real gallery experience. Not a hallway bulletin board. Not a school talent show. Their work on the walls of Two Bit Bistro. Their names on the labels. Their people in the seats.
Because the next generation of Ogden's creative scene is already here. Already making things. Already waiting for someone to take them seriously.
We do.
Who's Behind It
she/her · @tink.safeer.artstudio
Tink Safeer
Tink is a mixed media artist whose whimsical work explores the layered, intricate nature of human connection -- how we relate, how we hold each other, how we come undone and back together. Her work lives in that rare space that feels both deeply personal and universally recognizable. The kind of art that makes you stop and think how did she know?
She's lived all over, a wanderer by nature, and recently landed in Ogden with her husband Connor and their very large Great Dane, Grimm. A working artist with a BFA, she brings formal training, deep creative vision, and genuine community trust to everything she touches. She's not just trained. She's shown up. She's put in the work.
What matters most is how she shows up in a room. The way she sees people before she sees anything else. The way she makes space for the weird, the unfinished, the work that doesn't have a category yet. She's one of the creative forces shaping this from the inside -- and there is no version of this without her.
Andrew Shorts
@__wyze__ · @twobitbistro
Andrew is a lot of things. An athlete. An artist. A recovering addict. A father. An entrepreneur. He showed up in Ogden in 2017 from Wyoming with three years of recovery, a background in hospitality, and a deep love for skateboarding, skiing, music, and art -- and then never really left.
He spent five years working full time as an artist -- murals, graphic design, stencil and spray paint work that became a fixture at Indie Ogden Swap Meets and First Friday Art Strolls. Then life shifted. He stepped back from art and back into restaurants, eventually landing at a 25th Street staple he fell in love with -- the space, the people, the community that had been gathering there for 20 years.
When it suddenly closed, the owners asked Andrew to carry the torch. In 2025, Two Bit Bistro opened at the Bigelow. Two blocks up 25th. All the greatest hits, some new tricks, live jazz, and a space that's become home to some of the most meaningful creative events happening in Ogden right now. Now he's bringing that same energy here -- giving back to the community that welcomed him nearly ten years ago.
Audrey Christensen
she/her · @heybefab
Audrey is a published writer, poet, and textile artist whose watercolor embroidery finds beauty in the mundane and honors the humanness of the body -- the quiet, overlooked, deeply real parts of being a person.
She's also a licensed international life coach specializing in art wellness. Her work isn't about productivity or hustle. It's about helping creatives find their way back to themselves -- their voice, their work, the version of them that shows up fully rather than performing for everyone else. She does that through one-on-one coaching, group programs through The Makers Huddle, and networking dinners at The Table.
And then there's the building.
The yART Sale. Ogden Arts After Dark. Years of creating spaces for the artists, makers, and small business owners who kept getting left out of the rooms that were supposed to be for them. She didn't wait for someone to open the door. She built the door. Then she built the whole building.
What drives her isn't the events. It's what happens inside them. The conversations. The joy. The moment someone realizes they're not as alone as they thought. She's done building things that only go wide. She wants to go deep -- into community, into real connection, into what actually happens when creative people are in the same room together with room to breathe.
Inspire Ogden is that. And she's been waiting to build it for a long time.
Stay in the Loop
Every event has its own open call, its own invite, and its own thing you won't want to miss. Follow along or get on the list.