Join me for a new year art workshop in Bellingham, where intuitive art turns your hopes, values, and dreams into a personal visual language.

We’ll begin with a guided reflection on the intentions you’d like to nurture in 2027. Then we’ll look at how artists use line, shape, space, and gesture to express thoughts and feelings without relying on recognizable images.

How do you give a feeling a shape? What does self-confidence look like? How could you create a symbol for courage, belonging, or a new beginning?

Through playful experimentation, you’ll translate abstract ideas into original symbols, letting intuition and unexpected discoveries shape your creative expression.

What We Do

• Discover Your Intentions: Through guided reflection and creative questions, explore what matters most to you and identify the hopes, values, and possibilities you want to carry into 2027.
• Create Your Personal Symbols: Learn how simple artistic elements (lines, shapes, patterns, and gestures) can express complex feelings and ideas. Experiment with a visual language that is meaningful and uniquely yours.
• Explore Intuitive Mark-Making: Using a variety of drawing and expressive art materials, discover how your symbols change and evolve through experimentation, movement, and spontaneous creative decisions.

Beyond the Workshop

The symbols you create can become a personal visual vocabulary to revisit throughout the year. Incorporate them into paintings, collages, handmade cards, journals, or other creative projects. Let them remind you of what matters, or evolve as your year unfolds.

You’ll leave with a set of personal symbols and the confidence to keep exploring them long after class.

The Details – Choose Your Date

Saturday, January 2, 2027
1:00 to 3:30 PM
Red Cedar Zen, 2509 Cedarwood St, Bellingham, WA (free parking)

OR

Sunday, January 10, 2027
1:30 to 4:00 PM
Whatcom Art Center, 1105 11th St, Bellingham, WA (free parking on Sundays)

Both dates:

• Duration: 2.5 hours
• Tuition: $49 per person (Click for Gift Certificates)
• Age: 16+
• Experience: No prior art experience necessary
• Materials: Everything included
• Class size: Maximum 16 participants
• Bonus: You will receive a short video by December 26 to help you begin reflecting on your intentions before class. Watch it whenever you like. Come with a few thoughts, or come with none.

Come ready to explore, experiment, and discover a new way to express what matters to you.

Cancellations

I know plans change!

If you need to cancel 7 or more full days before class, you’ll receive a full refund within 3 business days.

Canceling 3-6 full days before class earns you 100% store credit toward a future workshop.

Canceling 1-2 days before class earns you 50% store credit.

Unfortunately, day-of cancellations and no-shows aren’t eligible for a refund or credit, since we prepare materials for each person in advance.