Painting: Flow State

Location

This workshop will meet on Saturday, February 3, 2024, from 10 am to 2 pm. Creative Classes are held in the DAM’s state-of-the-art classrooms, located inside the Bartlit Learning and Engagement Center on level 1 of the Martin Building.

Class Cancellation Policy

If a class or workshop needs to be cancelled due to inclement weather or teacher illness, a “make-up” day will be scheduled on a Saturday as the educator’s schedule allows.

Materials

All materials will be provided for students and are included in the price for this workshop.

What to Expect

Students will be led into the galleries at the beginning of each workshop to observe and discuss one work. The selected work will serve as an introduction to and inspiration for the exercises that will be practiced that day, which will include: guided meditations, gestural painting prompts, and group reflections. While each week will be a different experience, students can expect:

1. to be guided through various meditations as a group with visualization and mindfulness based techniques;
2. to practice guided, individual meditative painting/drawing exercises on paper,
3. to create a large-scale, group painting on canvas,
4. to reflect on the day’s work in a group discussion at the end of each workshop.

Participants will walk away with a series of personal abstract paintings on paper, a set of creative meditations to use in everyday life, and the opportunity to co-create a large scale group painting with others. The large group painting will require participants to work on the same surface at the same time in some instances.

No prior painting or drawing skills are required. No experience with meditation or mindfulness required. This class is open to all skill levels.