In-Person Classes
To learn more about my approach to teaching, please read “My Ten Principles.”
“This was my first class with you, and it exceeded my expectations and brought me exactly what I dared to hope for—allowing me to take my practice of art into a more more essential, integrated, and nurturing place in my life.”
— Cynthia, Speak to Me From Everywhere | Nov 2020
SAVE THE DATE!
Madeline Island School for the Arts, Wisconsin Island Campus
· Sunday, September 20– Saturday, September 26, 2026
Come join me on the island in Lake Superior! Scroll down to see details below.
Habit of Twilight
The muse arrives in twilight, where and when we least expect her, at gloaming time. She arrives with the invisible secrets of air. You don’t need any special gift or skill to invoke the muse, only the willingness to sit in the sun or under the moon and listen.
Without watches or phones in the classroom we enter the twilight time before clocks. We will cultivate the habit of twilight through writing, drawing, painting, and bookmaking in a contemplative atmosphere. From professionals to brand new beginners, if you want to If you want to explore alphabets and how to “remake your world with words”, come study with me at the Madeline Island School of Art.
Everything Blossoms From Within | NY | 2025
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Contact: registration@eomega.org
The title of this workshop is inspired by the poet Galway Kinnell. In his poem “Saint Francis and the Sow,” he puts these the words “self” and “blessing” together to create “self-blessing.” With dedicated time and place, our work is a kind of “self-blessing”, and blossoms from within.
In this class, we focus on putting unlikely words together—self-blessing, mind-weeds, shadow-practice — in visual, auditory and poetic ways. We use ink, watercolor, and graphite and incorporate this work into a handmade book.
Winter Seed’s Promise | Taos, NM | 2024
This class is full. To get on the waiting list, click here.
Investigating seeds is fuel for words, for paint and for pencil. Seeds awaken a sense of everything becoming something else, of the “something evermore about to be” (Wordsworth). Seeds are the promise of the new life that arises from what has gone. Seeds come from the natural world, from dreams and from ideas. A sown seed is the beginning of creativity.
In the classroom, seeds cross-pollinate.
Martin Ray “Young at Heart” Memorial Scholarship
New scholarship in honor of a treasured student