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Paint Night — An Online Visual Art Workshop with Margaret Jacobson
Participants will be guided step by step to complete the featured painting. Once participants have completed the painting, they will be guided step by step on how to embellish their work with gold leaf. Suggested Supplies: Flat and round brushes (various sizes)...
Art Saves Lives: Bringing Our Light into the Dark by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
I sat cross-legged on a curb in the middle of New Jersey in the middle of the 1970s and wrote a poem about despair. I was fourteen, it was humid and windless, and I was waiting outside my father’s girlfriend’s apartment to go home where my father and I had barricaded...
Natural Objects: Songwriting Fundamentals with Matthew Sidney Parsons
Join Matthew Sidney Parsons for Natural Objects: Songwriting Fundamentals and Lyric Analysis on Thursday, March 6th at 7pm EST. This workshop will be aimed at demystifying the process of creating lyrics and providing a framework to evaluate and appreciate the lyrics...
Memory as Lyric, as Inheritance with Nathan Xavier Osorio — An Online Creative Writing Workshop in Partnership with Strathmore
Join us on Thursday, February 20th, 2025 at 7 PM Eastern Time for Memory as Lyric, as Inheritance with Nathan Xavier Osorio — An Online Creative Writing Workshop in Partnership with Strathmore Creative writing is a tool for knowing yourself, understanding the world,...
Poetry of the Heart Chakra: A Writing & Yoga Pop-Up Workshop with Sarah Martin
Poetry of the Heart Chakra: A Writing & Yoga Pop-Up Workshop with Sarah Martin About This Workshop The Poetry of the Chakras is a somatic, creative writing workshop merging poetry, yoga, and meditation to nurture spiritual blossoming. This special edition workshop...
Just Imagine: Liquitex Acrylic Mediums — An Online Visual Art Workshop with Brandy Antonio (in partnership with Plaza Art & Liquitex)
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 at 7 PM Eastern Time Thanks to our friends at Plaza for connecting us with Brandy Antonio from Liquitex for this workshop. When it comes to acrylics, Liquitex started it all in 1955. In this demonstration, attendees will be introduced to...
Art Saves Lives: On Poetry and Community by Carla R. Sameth
Usually, I am one to find the thread of dark humor even in the worst of circumstances. But I found myself at a loss. I had been increasingly depressed and anxious since a confluence of world and family events descended, including family deaths and friends’ severe...
FAWC & Mission Belonging Announce 2025 Summer Workshops and Scholarships for Veterans
For a third year in a row, Veterans associated with Mission Belonging can apply for the scholarships by visiting the FAWC Scholars Awards application page, available now. Registration for workshops open now. Application deadline is March 1st, 2025.The Fine Arts Work...
Coming Clean: How to Tell the Truth with Susanna Sonnenberg — An Online Creative Writing Workshop in Partnership with Strathmore
Thursday, January 16th, 2025 at 7 PM Eastern Time Creative writing is a tool for knowing yourself, understanding the world, and connecting with other people. Led by author Seema Reza and accomplished guest writers—including poets, memoirists, novelists, and...
Sketching Faces — An Online Visual Art Workshop with National Museum of Health and Medicine’s Elizabeth Lockett
Join us on Wednesday, January 1st at 7 PM Eastern Time and explore the anatomy and features of the face using pencil and paper. We will use some basic drawing techniques and some basic anatomy to learn how the muscle and bone under the skin inform what we see on the...
Art Saves Lives: In Spite of Perfection by Cynthia Dewi Oka
For most of my life, I could not bear my own face. Though I would recognize what I saw in the mirror as familiar, I did not feel it was mine. What I did feel was that it was wrong. I was raised like a prisoner on an island that most consider a paradise. My parents...
Your Writing Out Loud: An Online Creative Writing Workshop with author Rosamond S. King in Partnership with Strathmore
Creative writing is a tool for knowing yourself, understanding the world, and connecting with other people. Led by author Seema Reza and accomplished guest writers—including poets, memoirists, novelists, and storytellers—these generative community workshops follow the...
