Focus: Presence & Rhythm — a mindful exploration of repetition, movement, and flow through line and pattern. 

Description: This session is an invitation to slow down and find rhythm in simple movement. We’ll explore how a single line can hold emotion, energy, and calm. Through guided mark-making and playful repetition, you’ll experience how drawing without expectation can steady the mind and bring you into the present moment. Each mark becomes a quiet conversation between your hand and your breath.

What You’ll Experience:

• Gentle, meditative drawing exercises that promote calm and focus

• Freedom to explore pattern, shape, and texture without judgment

• A deepened awareness of how movement and art connect the body and mind

Techniques: repetitive mark-making, pattern development, neurographic drawing, simple ink and brush exploration.

Surface: sketchbook or mixed-media paper (9 × 12 inches recommended).

Materials: please bring your own sketch paper, pens, markers, or drawing tools of choice. A list of recommended materials with links will be provided ahead of class to make preparation easier. You are also welcome to bring any additional tools that inspire you, such as brushes, inks, or texture tools. 

Focus: Personal Narrative — exploring your story through images, words, and intuitive composition.

Description: Sometimes, the smallest format can hold the biggest truths. In this workshop, we’ll create a simple folded zine, a handmade mini book, as a space to explore your inner stories. Using collage, drawing, and found text, you’ll be invited to follow your intuition rather than a plan. This process encourages gentle reflection, curiosity, and play. Your zine might hold a memory, a dream, a list of reminders to yourself, or simply layers of color and marks that feel right in the moment.

What You’ll Experience:

• A quiet and imaginative space to tell stories in your own way

• Playful experimentation with paper, image, and text

• Permission to create freely, without editing or overthinking

Techniques: intuitive layout, collage layering, drawing and mark integration, simple folded zine construction.

Surface: recommended paper size at least 11 × 17 inches to allow space for layering, folding, and intuitive composition.

Materials: please bring your own paper, pens, glue, scissors, and any collage materials that inspire you such as photos, old magazines, or printed phrases. A list of recommended materials with links will be provided ahead of class. 

Focus: Foundations & Flow — creating the bones of your art journal so that inspiration always has a place to land.

Description: In this workshop, we’ll take away the fear of the blank page by building the foundation of your own art journal. Together, we’ll gather a variety of papers, plain, patterned, textured, and repurposed, and create a layered surface that already carries stories within it. You’ll design a personalized cover and learn how to assemble your pages using a wire-o binding machine. This process gives you a creative container that feels alive and ready for exploration. This journal will become a safe space to play, reflect, and grow long after the workshop ends. Each page will remind you that creativity doesn’t have to start from scratch, it can grow from what’s already here.

What You’ll Experience:

• A calm and creative environment to build your own journal foundation

• Hands-on instruction in paper selection, layering, and cover design

• The satisfaction of creating a journal that already feels rich and inviting

Techniques: paper selection and layering, intuitive page composition, wire-o bookbinding, simple cover design.

Surface: custom journal created from assorted papers (recommended finished size 6 × 9 inches).

Materials: please bring an assortment of papers that inspire you — such as watercolor sheets, book pages, scrapbook papers, or recycled materials. All binding materials and wire-o machines will be provided for class use. A list of recommended materials with links will be sent ahead of class. 

Focus: Integration & Meaning — transforming your story into something you can touch, hold, and carry with you.

Description: This workshop invites you to translate your creative journey into a tactile form that reflects your growth and self-discovery. Using a blank canvas tote as your base, you’ll layer fabric paint, collage, and meaningful textures to create a personal visual story. You’ll be encouraged to bring found objects or small items that hold significance, things that represent memories, affirmations, or parts of your becoming. You’ll explore ways to attach, layer, and express through color and texture. There’s no expectation of outcome, this is about process, play, and meaning. By the end, you’ll have something that feels deeply personal: a piece that walks beside you in your daily life and reminds you of who you are becoming.

What You’ll Experience:

• A supportive space to connect your creative journey with your everyday life

• Exploration of texture, symbolism, and storytelling through mixed materials

• Permission to create intuitively and meaningfully without pressure or perfection

Techniques: fabric painting, layering, collage application, optional hand-stitching or embellishment, intuitive composition.

Surface: blank canvas tote bag (recommended large grocery size or larger).

Materials: please bring your own tote bag and a selection of small items or fabrics that hold personal meaning. All shared materials such as paint and adhesives will be provided. A list of recommended materials and links will be sent ahead of class. 

Focus: Reflection & Continuation — celebrating your creative growth and honoring who you are becoming through layered expression.

Description: This final workshop is a time to pause, look back, and create from a place of quiet awareness. Using familiar tools like stencils, brushes, stamps, and texture, you’ll build a layered mixed-media painting that reflects the many versions of yourself that have emerged along the way. Each mark and color becomes a conversation between what was and what’s next. There’s no single way this piece should look. Some layers will hide beneath others; some will shine through. Just like life, it’s a reflection of movement, change, and the beauty of imperfection. This process is less about finishing a painting and more about being present with what unfolds.

What You’ll Experience:

• Space to reflect on your creative and personal growth throughout the series

• Freedom to explore layering and composition as symbols of becoming

• A sense of completion that honors both progress and openness to what comes next

Techniques: intuitive mixed-media layering, color blending, gesture painting, mark-making, use of stencils and texture tools.

Surface: your choice of hard surface or canvas (recommended size at least 16 × 20 inches).

Materials: please bring your own paints, brushes, and favorite tools. A list of recommended materials and links will be provided ahead of class.