Bristle & Turp offers at home art lessons for kids, teens, and adults. Owner Erin Deneuville works with all experience levels and has expertise in painting, printmaking, observation drawing, sculpture, oil paintaing, collage, and more (like puppets and masks!). Visit Bristle & Turp’s website (listed below) to sign up!

The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, distinguished by the designation of the “Official Orchestra of the City of Ithaca,” has been presenting exceptional live classical music to the region since 1976.

Comics For Collectors is a full time business, selling professionally illustrated narratives with sequential artworks within the diverse world of comic books and graphic novels. A large selection of Graphic Novels by numerous publishers, including Marvel and DC Comics. They have numerous Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Avengers, X-Men books and comics. They also carry many of the top image books, like the hit series Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman. Other popular authors line their shelves like a who’s who in comics: Warren Ellis, Brian K Vaughan, James Robertson, Brian Bendis, John Byrne, Roger Stern, Alan Moore are just a few. Art pieces from Sonic, Spider-Man, Dreaming, Batman, and Archie hang on the walls for all to enjoy. Comics for Collectors makes sure to have a few hot game systems in stock, like Magic the Gathering, Settlers of Catan, Munchkin, HeroClix, Dungeon & Dragons, and Star Wars. Special orders are always welcome at no extra cost.

Handwork, Ithaca’s Artisan Cooperative, was started in 1976 by 12 local craftspeople. Working together they could afford the cost and time of opening a retail shop to sell their work. Handwork now has approximately 40 member artisans doing a range of work that includes pottery, woodworking, glass, jewelry, fiber arts, wearable arts, leather, paper and art.

Ithaca’s premier home for all stringed instruments! Ithaca Guitar Works features stringed instruments & accessories, sales & service, electric violins, violas, cellos, guitars, mandolins, amplifiers and effects, and used instruments. Ithaca Guitar Works is an authorized dealers for Fender, Taylor, Martin and many other brands.

Sacred Root is Ithaca’s newest nightlife alternative, serving kava – a traditional and relaxing ceremonial elixir from the South Pacific – as well as a diverse selection of organic and local teas, coffees, and RAW desserts.

SewGreen was founded in Ithaca in 2007 as a way to save unwanted fabric, yarn and sewing equipment from going to the landfill, and to teach sewing as a self-reliant skill. The original mission has grown to also include youth development, job training, and consumer education.