08/16/2026
📍Where to find us Next 📍
Watercolor Connections is touring all over metrodetroit — some free & family-friendly, some more business-savvy or ticketed. Wherever you catch us is another chance to build your portrait collection!
Comment 💜if you have one of our portraits at home! 🏡
We love seeing where your portraits end up 🥹
🎉 Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month at TechTown
First Thursdays / Co-Working Concert Series
📆Sept 3 • 5:30-7:30PM
TechTown is spotlighting the Latinx/Hispanic Diaspora community for Hispanic Heritage Month, and Marissa Ruaiai, Gabby Sanchez, Dayana Juarez, and I are bringing the whole squad to live paint together. I’m Mexican and Yugoslavian myself (Bayagich comes from my parents’ blind date!) — come support mi gente. Free event, kids welcome — register so they can get a proper headcount for food.
TechTown Detroit
Marissa Rubaiai
Dayana Juarez
Gabs Sanchez
🎨National Coloring Day Celebration🖍️🌈
Southfield Public Library
📆Sept 14 • 4–7:30PM
The Coloring Museum is bringing National Coloring Day to Southfield Library, and I won’t be the only artist there! Interactive coloring stations, a coloring passport scavenger hunt, creative vendors, and family fun — I’ll be painting donation-based live watercolor portraits, so come sit for your own mini work of art. Free & family-friendly, all ages welcome.
The Coloring Museum
👻 BBQ, Bourbon & Boos 🥃
🗓️Sept 25–26 • 7PM–12AM each night
📍Scarefest Scream Park 🎃👻🍖
Ribs in hand, spooky-dookie spirit fully activated — catch us celebrating the season with you. Alcohol activities are 21+, but the event itself is open to everyone. Just note: attractions aren’t recommended under 6, and anyone under 16 needs an adult onsite.
Scarefest Scream Park
🥂 Toast of the Town
🗓️October 9 • 5PM–9PM
As an entrepreneur and a mother, I know how hard it is to find real opportunities to network with other small businesses — and TechTown is the best place in Detroit to do it. After completing their Retail Boot Camp (Cohort 17) and winning the $1,000 People’s Choice Award, I’m now six months into 1:1 coaching with them. This year, I’m honored to be one of four artists booked to live paint at their bigge
