Teaching
upcoming classes & workshops!
Creative Workspace
A 12-Week Class
Spring Sessions
Online
with an in-person final showing at the Fremont Abbey in Seattle and the Consulat de Monte Cristo in Bellingham!
April 8 - July 1, 6-8pm PST
Or
April 9 - June 25, 6-8pm PST
Or
April 10 - June 26, 12-2pm PST
with combined final showings in Seattle and Bellingham!
Part art-making class, part creative project accountability group, Creative Workspace is for artists and wannabe artists of all disciplines. This is not a technique class. Nope. Technique is useful, but it's not the thing that lights my fire. Ideas are what really get me going.
Through weekly assignments and in-class exercises, we explore a million different ways to spark imagination, and we dig into questions like, “What do I want to say with my art?” “What do I want to be putting into the world?” and “How can I use art to respond to what's going on around me or process what I'm experiencing?”
Sound heavy? Yeah, sometimes it is. We also do a lot of laughing, writing, wondering, moving, discovering, breathing, drawing, reading, watching, listening, and a little crying. Artists whose work we've looked at for inspiration in past sessions include Toni Morrison, Lynda Barry, Amy Sherald, Jad Abumrad, Yoko Ono, Miranda July, Hannah Gadsby, and Beyoncé.
We'll spend the first half of the session making as many different things as possible, without being too precious about it. The goal in the first 6 weeks is just to be productive, and to let our internal editors take a rest. For the second 6 weeks, each person will choose one project or piece to focus on and develop for our final showing, with the help of supportive feedback from the group.
$150-$450 - Tickets are sliding scale to support equitable access.
There’s also a Preview Class on April 2!
The Workshop Workshop
is baaaaaaack!
June 27-July 1, 2024!!!
The Workshop Workshop is a summer camp for adults devoted to curiosity, creativity, kindness.
How does it work?
Everyone's a teacher. Everyone's a student.
As a participant, you are encouraged to lead one workshop lasting up to two hours, and to take as many workshops as you like.
Workshops can be on just about anything: harmony; quantum physics; understanding white privilege; knitting; listening; grief; hip-hop; fishing; Javanese shadow puppets; holotropic breathwork; knot tying; medicinal uses of native plants; improvising around the major pentatonic scale; tortilla making; dream interpretation; changing your brake pads; color theory; constellations (held at midnight on the field, of course); dives & belly flops (held on the dock in the lake, naturally); basketball free throws (held on the basketball court – where else?); the science of how a heart really works; arts activism; landscape architecture & social justice; the history of ideas; yodeling; new efforts in palliative care; tax preparation for self-employed artists; being an introvert in communal settings; the perfect sandwich...
Learn more here!