I cannot wait to have YOU here ...

Student work by Julie Caliendo

It's been a dozen years in the making... a dedicated place to create. If you or your children have ever taken an art class with me, you know that it's been at the dining room table of my big kitchen. We've sipped tea together, laughed, learned and experimented in this space. While it has served us well, it's been tugging at me to have a separate, bigger place to create with you. A Create Place. An attached art studio that I can hardly wait to move my giant, paint splattered desk into. We are about a week away from occupying it!

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We don't know all of the ways that God will use  A Create Place , but we do know it will be a place to more comfortably collaborate with students and clients, explore different mediums, practice, learn, gather with community and be inspired together.

Beginning September 8th,
we'll kick off our first Open Studio. 

I'll be offering studio time each week on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Rather than the more formal class with a structured lesson approach, we'll be changing it up a bit. In Open Studio I'll be demonstrating as I paint and explaining what I'm doing as I go.  It will be an open forum for students to work on their own projects using their medium of choice or simply relax and learn by watching others. 

The benefits to this Popular Open Studio approach are the following:

• The ability to work on your own projects but still get help when needed.
• Having a weekly set time to keep you moving forward on your artwork and skills.
• It allows you to explore your own medium of choice (from scrapbooking to mixed media to oil pastels... Simply bring whatever materials you want to work with.) 
• Creating together can bring more confidence as we learn together.
• It allows you to get feedback as your pieces progress whatever your skill level.
• Provides the fun of experimenting with new techniques together.
• Open Studio can be booked in 2 hour time chunks. You can book either 8 weeks at a time or individually. ($165 for 8 weeks or $25 per 2 hour session)
• You can use the online option of Zooming in if not comfortable yet meeting in person.
• The Open Studio model provides a chance to broaden horizons, reduce stress, and allows for sufficient time for the creative process to evolve.

We also plan to use this new space to host a Thursday evening drawing class, private paint parties, watercolor workshops and monthly kid's classes. More details to come on all of those things, but for now you can use those links to read more about them.

I hope you'll join us at A Create Place. Here is the link to book your Open Studio time. 

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