December 2025
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December 6th, 4pm - 6pm
Kellan Jones
Artist Reception
The Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative is pleased to announce Kellan Jones as our December artist of the month! Please join them on December 6th from 4pm - 6pm for a come-and-go reception. During the reception, Kellan will give a demonstration of his art technique! You won’t want to miss it!
Kellan’s art will be up for the full month of December.
Kellan is a self-taught wire artist who makes jewelry & jewelry-inspired wall art out of leftover electrical wire, beads somebody else didn't want, & crap he found in parking lots, along riverbanks, & on the side of the road. He lives in the beautiful San Luis Valley in Colorado, a home to vibrant queer & artistic culture, in addition to a lot of potato fields.
He is a late-blooming trans guy, and wants you to know that it’s never too late to figure out who you are. He figured out who he is just before I turned 50 & started testosterone at 52 1/2. He often travels with his leashcats, Loiosh & Major Tom, & when they can, they attend Society for Creative Anachronism events, where he dresses as a Viking era Norseman. (The boys just wear their fur.)
Artist Statement:
“I started out by collecting creek glass, cool rocks, & good sticks along the edges of Fountain Creek in Fountain, Colorado. I had no idea what he was going to DO with all of this until I happened upon a coil of copper wire my brother-in-law had helped me rescue from a busted Dust Buster. The solution was obvious: use unwanted stuff to hook other unwanted stuff together to make neat stuff!
Which is mostly jewelry, but I also make bigger things using the same techniques -- you could call them wall hangings, and some of them make nice suncatchers, plus there's the candle lanterns I make from glass jars & beads -- there isn't really a proper term for them, at least not that I've found. Do they count as sculpture? Maybe?
In any case, this whole theme of taking what's broken & unwanted & turning it into beautiful things resonates strongly with my identity as a queer person -- it echoes how, instead of letting ourselves remain lost, traumatized, & alone, we build queer families & community, and create beautiful things of our lives & experiences.”
The Narrow Gauge is thrilled to have Kellan and his art in store!
December 19th, 6pm
Earth Issue Release
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Join us in store to celebrate the release of the Earth issue of HeartThrob! This is the 4th and final issue of the inaugural year of HeartThrob, the first project curated, edited, and produced by Hysteria Heart Press.
The zine will continue next year with new themes. Come celebrate with the artists featured in the pages. The evening will begin with readings and short talks from the artists. You'll be able to get a copy of the Earth issue, too, and hear about plans for the next year.
December 21st, 3:30pm
Crow Party Trinket Exchange
Join us in store at 3:30 pm to think like a crow and trade our trinkets! Bring a gently used trinket to trade with other corvid-minded individuals! Think things that sparkle, shine, or are just satisfying to the part of our brain that goes, "Oh, I like this!"
No need to buy a new item, and please, no clothing items. Jewelry, pins, stickers, crystals, tchotchkes, and other oddities are perfect for this gathering. If you don't have anything and would still like to come, we'll have a few extras on hand for you to choose as your offering!
Water, tea, and coffee will be available.
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Holiday Hours
We'll be open for extended hours on December 22nd and 23rd, from 10am until 7pm. On these days, if you spend $25 or more, you'll get to pick out a mystery misfit book. Mystery misfits are gently damaged books that will be wrapped (with a note on genre) for you to choose, as a thank you from us to you!
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We'll be open for shorter hours on December 24th, from 10am until 3pm, and closed on December 25th.
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Find us open again for normal hours until December 31st, when we'll close at 3pm, and then we will be closed until January 4th, as we conduct our annual inventory.