We’re taking a  holiday break!

Thanks for everything, it’s been an amazing year. See you in 2026!

The shop will be closed 12/14 - 1/5, and we’ll be away from our email and social media. Thanks for your patience!

CURLWORKS

Hey there! We’re Curlworks, a trans-and-queer owned Minneapolis-based indie artist duo specializing in playful product design. We design original and offbeat goodies to celebrate our enthusiastic fondness for funny looking animals and community.

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THE FISH SLAM

WINNER!

KOI has won the 2025 Fish Slam and he's up for preorder now! Congrats R. Howell for the winning design!

Preorder the Koi Fish Bag!
Check out the Slam!

We’re Famous!

FEATURED GOODIES

FISH HAT

Upcoming Events

Art-A-Whirl

May 15 - 17, 2026

Q.arma Building
Minneapolis, MN

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WHAT ARE WE DOING??

Prairie Chickens and lacewing eggs and some pens I liked to use at the time. sometimes I'll see something weird and kind of gross and it'll get stuck in my head for a while and I'll have to keep drawing it (those eggs). - Reminder that we are on h
Random assortment today. A horse thing and some more pansies and leaves from a tree I was drawing when I had COVID in September . - Reminder that we are on hiatus until Jan 5. See you then!
Brown butterflies and horses and pansies. - We're officially on holiday break until Jan 5, so while you can't order things from our shop right now you CAN look at them here and yearn for the day we reopen (Jan 5). Emails and messages will be replie
For the last week of the year I'm gonna be sharing some sketchbook pages from the sketchbook I just finished. I was never someone to keep a sketchbook (or to sketch at ALL) and always envied folks who did, until early this year when I decided I wante
Our retrospective continues. Here's our ol' coot feet keychain. I've been thinking of bringing this guy back in cellulose acetate form (like our new fish and flower keychains). THOUGHTS? - We're officially on holiday break until Jan 5, so while y
Another older pin design. This one was like... 2018? Having fun doing a little retrospective so I think I'll keep that up for our little holiday break. Shout loud if you want us to bring any of these back :) - We're officially on holiday break unt
Throwback Thursday to our first ever enamel pin. I think this guy is from 2017? Featuring my youthful 2017 hand. Should we bring this guy back? - We're officially on holiday break until Jan 5, so while you can't order things from our shop right now
An artistic image for you this December 17th. --- We're officially on holiday break today until Jan 5, so while you can't order things from our shop right now you CAN look at them here and yearn for the day we reopen (Jan 5). Emails and messages wil
We're officially on holiday break today until Jan 5, so while you can't order things from our shop right now you CAN look at them here and yearn for the day we reopen (Jan 5) . Enjoy the visage of these two sporty fish bags.
Hi folks! We're officially on holiday break until Jan 5, so while you can't order things from our shop right now you CAN look at them here and yearn for the day we reopen (Jan 5). Emails and messages will be replied to when we return. See you next ye
kiwi bird for December’s sticker o the month. You have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to sign up because we are closing the shop and won’t be back til Jan 5.
That’s a wrap on markets for 2025! Thank you to the organizers of @queerholidaymarket for, once again, putting together this event and having us be a part of it. Reminder that tomorrow (Sunday the 14th) is our last day to shop online before w
Thanks everyone who stopped by tonight! 🌈We are back at the @queerholidaymarket tomorrow Friday, Dec 12th from 5pm - 9pm! We still have some of each fish bag, the new flower keychains and some of @keaton_vh prints! 🦆 #pride #queer #holidaymarket
The weird giraffe is my fav spread of this book I think. I like the thick lines-- still haven't really found a pen that feels the same as my b-3 dip pen nib. I ended up buying another Speedball Auto-feed because I couldn't get the first one apart. W