WORKSHOPS 2025-2026
I hope that you will join me to explore and expand your artistic practice.
Taking a class with other makers is such a great way to regain and sustain momentum. Building creative community is a powerful way to stay inspired!
I look forward to forging ahead into 2026 with you fueled by our collective creative fire.
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DECEMBER 2025
Color Bootcamp
Two-Day Workshop (In-Person); Concord Art
December 5th & 6th 2025 (Friday & Saturday) 10am-4pm
Color is magic… until it’s mud. This workshop will introduce techniques to help you navigate color with expressive discipline. Guided exercises will include tinting and shading, value relationships, neutralizing with complementary colors, an earth palette, and two expanded palettes. In addition, we will work with classic Color Aid paper experiments to create optical chromatic illusions, deepening your understanding of the interactions of color. Ultimately you will have the chance to practice your color perception from observation. You’ll come away with useful color charts and a strengthened ability to navigate color in your own work, regardless of medium. Exercises will be done in gouache paint.
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JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2026
Reconnecting with the Natural World (On-line, Concord Art)
5 Thursdays 10am-12pm EST
January 29th, February 5, 12, 19, 26
Wintering offers us the chance to be inspired by the beauty of the world around us in preparation for spring. This month-long landscape sketching workshop is done on your own terms, from your window, in your backyard, or further afield. Your visual nterpretation of the landscape will be supported by weekly online demonstrations covering key concepts related to creating successfully expressive landscape imagery. Prompts related to simplification, structure, compositional dynamics, creating depth, value, and a limited palette will be offered each week. Meditative journaling exercises will deepen your connection with a sense of place. Weekly sharing of imagery, supportivedialogues, and suggested readings will strengthen your interpretation of the landscape in any medium.
REGISTER:
https://concordart.org/class/online-reconnecting-with-the-natural-world-elemental-landscape-5/
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FEBRUARY 2026
The February Project 2026 (On-line)
Monday January 26th, Fridays February 6, 13, 20 & Monday March 2nd
Get inspired to engage daily with your artistic practice in February! Join me for a 28-day commitment to making, exploring process and slowing down to connect with the simple beauty around us. What we practice does get stronger. Over time, building a daily creative ritual will inspire confidence and erode obstacles that block your true expressive potential. In this on-line class, you will generate a body of work in any media and be part of a group offering creative accountability. Weekly sharing of imagery, supportive dialogues, suggested readings and videos will address strategies for sustaining inspiration and momentum.
$400 Fee
On-line
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APRIL 2026
Terra Incognita: Deepening Our Approach to the Landscape (On-line)
5 Thursdays 10am-12pm EST
April 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30
Explore what truly sparks your motivation to make things inspired by the natural world. Beyond depicting, who are we in our relationship to the environment? Why portray the land? What is it that we really want to communicate with our work? How do we witness our global condition and create work that embraces a felt sense of our interbeing with the fleeting beauty we witness. By becoming more intimately connected to our process, our most authentic work can arise.
This workshop will include meditative prompts to help us slow down and consider more mindful making. After sharing your current practice, each week will offer a prompt to take a deeper dive into personally relevant themes which could include: cycles of nature, walking, weather, data collecting, migration, detritus, poetry, trees as witness, healing, loss, hope & extinction. Experimenting with varied media will help us discern if our current materials and methods are still serving us.
On-line
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APRIL-DECEMBER 2026
Extended Play (On-line)
First Fridays: April 3rd, June 5th, August 7th, October 9th (2nd Fri), December 4th (Optional less structured check-ins: May 1st, July 3rd, September 4th & November 6th)
Allow the spark of your creativity to carry your practice into spring and over 9 months with a group of fellow makers! Our initial April meeting will allow us to set initial intentions for our making. This will be followed by 4 guided monthly conversations about the work plus 4 optional less structured checkins every other month. This course fosters a safe, inspired space for creative accountability and support. Resources in the form of podcasts, videos, articles, readings and exhibitions will enrich and liberate process, obstacles, flow, curiosity, wonder and hope. The mindful sharing of ideas, process and images in our private on-line forum will ignite possibilities and community. An ideal continuation of the February Project but not required. Any medium is welcome!
On-line
Fee: $450
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JUNE 2026
“The Quick Sketch” (In-Person)
June 29th, 30th, July 1st, 2nd 9am-1pm
Come spend early summer sketching and painting the fleeting light of Truro, Wellfleet and Provincetown. Simple meditative hikes will take us to tidal marshes, ocean beaches and the Provinceland dunes to visually explore the landscape. Initial emphasis will be put on drawing the inner structure of the landscape, its compositional dynamics as well as the clean, successful use of value and color in portable water-based media. Accumulating quick sketches and visual data will allow us to react to the ever changing colors and atmosphere of the Outer Cape. Journaling and simple meditation exercises on location will open us to the possibilities of deepening our ability to see and connect to nature.
All levels of experience are welcome.
IN-PERSON
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SEPTEMBER 2026
ITALIA!
“The Quick Sketch”: Cinque Terre ITALY
September 12th-19th (In-Person)
Sketch and explore the five picturesque villages of Cinque Terre, nestled in a mountainous coastline sloping down to the Ligurian Sea! Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola & Riomaggiore, known for their multi-colored pastel houses dramatically nestled into rock cliffs and terraced slopes lined with vineyards and olive trees, will be our muses for a week of sketching and painting in this breathtaking part of the Italian coast. The five villages of Cinque Terre, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997, are connected by a 19th-century railway and network of paths and ancient stairways offering fabulous hiking options with incredible vistas to paint!
IN-PERSON
REGISTER:
https://ilchiostro.com/workshop/the-quick-sketch-exploring-cinque-terre/
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SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2026
ITALY!
Creative Practice Residency: The Maremma, Southern Tuscany
September 25th-October 4th (In-Person)
Deepen your creative practice in the beautiful Tuscan hills of the Maremma. Whether you are a painter, sketcher, sculptor, photographer, writer, musician or multimedia artist, this is an opportunity to gain inspiration from this ancient part of Southern Tuscany. Join a small group of artists for process-based making. The 11th Century property of Pieve di Caminino, your private self-catered apartment and our communal loft studio will be ideal places for your practice. Days devoted to an open exploration of your chosen medium will be followed by evenings of delicious food, ancient hill town sunsets, and creative conversations allowing forcross-pollination of ideas in a supportive environment. Yoga & walking the land will deepen a connection to the beauty of the Maremma and liberate your artistic process.
IN-PERSON
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NOVEMBER 2026
Fearless Abstraction I (On-line)
5 Mondays: 10am-12pm EST
November 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30
Moving beyond representational image making can be daunting. This workshop will provide liberating strategies to help evolve your work, particularly if you have reached the point of asking, “Now what?”
Through a series of drawing, painting, and collage exercises, we will experiment, pushing beyond habitual image making, exploring new fearless options for picture making in any medium. This exploratory workshop will deepen your artistic process and reveal new directions and inspirations. No prerequisite. All levels welcome.
$400 Fee
On-line
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DECEMBER 2026
Sourcing Authentic Direction for 2027 (On-line)
3 Wednesdays 10am-12pm EST December 2, 9, 16
Embrace an opportunity to review your making from 2026 and set a course for 2027! In 3 sessions with a group of fellow makers, you will get to reflectand discern key themes and inspirations from the past year while acknowledging areas of your practice you would like to grow and enrich.
$200 Fee
On-line
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Year Round
Creative Coaching
I have a limited number of spaces available for private one-on-one sessions to help you plot your creative course. $700 for five 1-hour sessions or $175 per single session.
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