Featuring Classes with Guest Artists:
Creativity Amidst a Full Life
Allison Payne
Finding space for creativity can feel daunting especially for caregivers and full-time workers. Let’s take our favorite art supplies and gather a vision of how creative work can be implemented in your daily life, not only filling your soul’s cup but also trickling beauty and into the lives around you.
Exploring Layered Paint
Allison Payne
Gain new ways to translate your vision onto the canvas through various techniques and tools. Allison will share her favorite techniques, tools and mediums in acrylic painting for a layered landscape painting, (bring your own landscape reference image if desired).
Loaves of Life
Sarah Pacheco
Learn how to make your own Challah:
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Step by step instructions with hands on experience.
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The history and meaning behind what Challah is and the biblical significance of this bread.
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Utensils and recipe cards included.
Everyday Wonder: Weaving Creativity into Family Life
Leanne Thomas
This lighthearted, hands-on workshop is designed to help caregivers bring more creativity into their daily lives with children ages 4 - 12. We’ll explore simple, meaningful ways to spark imagination and connect faith and creativity in everyday routines — whether through art, storytelling, or faith based practices. You’ll have the opportunity to make art and create heartfelt pieces to share with the children in your life. Come ready to play, reflect, and leave with fresh ideas to nurture wonder.
The Art of Being Ready
Raffa and Camilla DeFaria
The Art of Being Ready is for artists who want to build structure around their creative life. Led by husband and wife team, Raffa and Camilla DeFaria, this workshop will explore practical tools for organizing time, managing projects, and aligning your life to better support your artistic work, without losing the spark that drives it.
Special Guest
Chuck Finley
Just Do It
Raquel Roy
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore the fundamentals of drawing in a relaxed, encouraging environment — no experience required. Just Do It is designed to help creatives rediscover the joy of making art, while offering simple, practical ways to nurture creativity in the middle of real life’s chaos. Whether you’re sketching in the margins of your journal or picking up a pencil for the first time in years, you’ll leave with new tools, renewed confidence, and a fresh reminder that creativity is a gift worth using.
Savoring Nature
Joanna Simeone
Three working artists on staff at the newly opened working art studio at Special Growers will be leading this adventure into preserving the wonder of plants and flowers and more through three different mediums: bas relief, pressed art and dried wreath making. Workshop participants are invited to see what happens when we see how beautiful this world and its people are - just the way we are.
