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Sounding and Sound Journeying are practices that explore the power and beauty of the voice when it is given space to move freely without judgment or inhibition. Like the other core practices employed at Art & Soul, sounding is community oriented and meditative in nature. It is a deep listening practice within ourselves and in support of the circle of practitioners. We breathe in a particular way. Without judgment, we let sound come. Listening to our deepest impulses, we discover worlds within us we didn’t know existed. Using breath, movement, tone and chant, we enter into a deep relationship with ourselves, with others, and with something mysterious, opening new pathways to the source of creativity, passion, and nourishment and to the experience of fullness in life.  This practice is one of release, support and transmutation on both a personal and collective level.  Pre-requisites: none Materials Students will be required to gather/bring for themselves: Wear comfortable clothing for easy movement. *** Fee: $25 (Members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com. Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.

Creative Arts Discovery & Practice – (CADP I) If you are looking for a way to kick-start or sustain your creative life, this 6-week course will remind you how to engage your whole self in the creative process. Whether you have been making art for years or are a first timer; our practices will ground you in authentic art making. We use practices like play, movement, and sound to bypass the conditioned mind and allow the individual to drop into a deeper place where they can discover their own innate mark making. Art & Soul was founded on a few core beliefs that value the art process over the product. Our classes are a safe space to make art in non-judgement. This 6-week course runs throughout the year and is foundational for Art & Soul Membership or becoming a facilitator at Art & Soul. It is also a prerequisite for CADP II and Wide Circle Weekend. You are welcome and encouraged to take CADP several times to reground yourself and set new intentions for your life and your art making. Enter your member coupon code at checkout for your 15% discount. If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com. Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.

Join our circle to tickle your muse's fancy, connect on a deep level, and explore your inner creative every Monday while safe and cozy from home. ​ This is an online offering 5 pm pacific time, 7 pm central time. Participants should have a pen and journal or notebook available. ​​ Fee: Donation (using Pay Now Button) Please register to receive the online link provided the day of the event.

Deepen your art practice with this class, and work in your own individual style! After an inspiration circle designed to jumpstart your artistic juices, Lisa Binder will offer her expertise and give individual attention, options, and demos of techniques specifically desired by the participants of the class.  Need a refresher on Color, Composition, or Underpaintings?  How about the use of Citra Solve, Never Dull, Gels, or GAC?  Have a copy of a treasured photo and want some individual instruction on contact paper transfers? This is your shot. You can finish an unresolved piece, paint in series, or try something for the very first time! Work at your own pace, and revel in your own artistic being.  Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned artist, give yourself these two full days to drop into the world of the creative among a collective of like-minded souls. Lisa will be sharing tips on subject matter ideas, jumping off, and knowing when a piece is done. So come gather some additional tools for your creative toolbox, and broaden your artistic horizons! Materials: materials will be available for reimbursement of $15 to the teacher Materials students will be required to gather/bring for themselves: canvases soft gel semi-gloss collage papers *** Fee: $195 (Members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com. Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.

Simple, accessible, and pleasurable, meditative movement, also called authentic or contemplative movement, is a practice that integrates mind and body in a natural way. It helps to develop conscious awareness. In the presence of a neutral, compassionate witness, the mover can relax into moving, led from within. Connections with one’s own creative process are enhanced, memories come and go, and insights are experienced. Simply being. Sensing. Moving and being moved. Exquisite attention. Ease of being in the body. Skill Level: none Pre-requisites: No experience necessary, just curiosity and openness. Please wear comfortable clothes.  *** Fee: $40 (Members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com. Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.

Pre-requisite: CADP I ​ Embark on a transformative weekend immersion that invites you to delve deep into artistic expression and community connection. This unique experience, occurring six times a year, extends an invitation to artists who have completed the Creative Arts Discovery and Practice (CADP) and are eager to embark on a profound exploration of the Art & Soul practices. You'll find dedicated blocks of individual work time interwoven with immersive breakout circles, fostering meaningful connections. This is a guided journey that embraces the unconscious, the present moment, and the ever-changing flow of creative energy alive with potential. Within this supportive environment, the weekend unfolds as a harmonious blend of play, movement, sounding, writing, meditation, and non-judgmental witnessing. This diverse framework becomes the canvas upon which all artistic explorations, urges, and imaginings are welcomed and deeply honored. It's a fusion of rigor and play, circle and soul—a space to both tangle and unwind, seek and find. To make the most of your Wide Circle experience, remember to bring essentials like a water bottle, journal, snacks, and sack lunches. Additionally, bring your chosen art supplies, materials, and ongoing projects that ignite your creative passion. Fear not if you arrive without, as Art & Soul studio supplies will be readily available. As the weekend unfolds, you're invited to embody the words of Thomas Merton: "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." Join us on this artistic journey where self-discovery and creative expression intertwine in a dance of infinite possibilities. We encourage a 3-day weekend but if you can only attend Saturday and Sunday please use the following coupon codes when registering: -Non-members 2 day: Wide2Day, -Members 2 day: Wide2Daymem. -For 3 day, members can use the normal 15% member discount coupon code. Fee: $275 (members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) per 3-day weekend $200 (members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) per 2-day weekend If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.

Creative Arts Discovery & Practice – (CADP I) If you are looking for a way to kick-start or sustain your creative life, this 6-week course will remind you how to engage your whole self in the creative process. Whether you have been making art for years or are a first timer; our practices will ground you in authentic art making. We use practices like play, movement, and sound to bypass the conditioned mind and allow the individual to drop into a deeper place where they can discover their own innate mark making. Art & Soul was founded on a few core beliefs that value the art process over the product. Our classes are a safe space to make art in non-judgement. This 6-week course runs throughout the year and is foundational for Art & Soul Membership or becoming a facilitator at Art & Soul. It is also a prerequisite for CADP II and Wide Circle Weekend. You are welcome and encouraged to take CADP several times to reground yourself and set new intentions for your life and your art making. Enter your member coupon code at checkout for your 15% discount. If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com. Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.

Sounding and Sound Journeying are practices that explore the power and beauty of the voice when it is given space to move freely without judgment or inhibition. Like the other core practices employed at Art & Soul, sounding is community oriented and meditative in nature. It is a deep listening practice within ourselves and in support of the circle of practitioners. We breathe in a particular way. Without judgment, we let sound come. Listening to our deepest impulses, we discover worlds within us we didn’t know existed. Using breath, movement, tone and chant, we enter into a deep relationship with ourselves, with others, and with something mysterious, opening new pathways to the source of creativity, passion, and nourishment and to the experience of fullness in life.  This practice is one of release, support and transmutation on both a personal and collective level.  Pre-requisites: none Materials Students will be required to gather/bring for themselves: Wear comfortable clothing for easy movement. *** Fee: $25 (Members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com. Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.

Come celebrate with New Mixed Media Fun! On the first day, you’ll alter papers with Citra Solve, Polymer GAC 100, stencils, and Never Dull, as well as making gelli prints with your individual mark-making. Explore the wonders of making your own unique collage papers using music sheets, book pages, and other paper options. Then get ready to introduce paint and oil pastel crayons, in a Grab and Turn technique Lisa brought back from her workshop in Portland Oregon last year.  Lisa will show you different ways to incorporate the papers and oil crayons, along with the altered papers, into wonderful works of art! The options are endless. Whether you are a beginner or a repeat Mixed Media enthusiast, there will be something new to add to your tool box from this class. See what a fun and wonderful transformation your artmaking process takes! Skill Level of student: any     Pre-requisites:   None Art & Soul Studio Materials that teacher plans to use during class: Paint and Brushes  Materials that teacher will provide, for which reimbursement is needed: Canvas Board or Panels Never Dull Gac 100 Found papers Paint Pens Semi-gloss soft gel medium Gesso Oil Pastel Crayons (non-soluble) Matte Medium  Lisa will have extra materials available for an additional $20 fee payable directly to her. Materials Students will be required to gather/bring for themselves: any of the above that students wants to bring plus canvases or cradle boards *** Fee: $210 (Members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com. Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.

With Mother’s Day coming up, what better time to reflect and write about Mothers, Mothering, and Mama-ship – the tender, the tough, the terrific, and the tragic. It’s a complicated role and relationship, and writing can help us gain new insight, work through grief, and honor, wail, document, and wonder. Through prompts and play, memory and invention, teaching artist Kelly Cass Falzone will guide students to explore both what they hold dear and what might be hidden in the dark. All types of writing invited – poetry, prose, script, lyric, fiction, and creative non-fiction – and sharing and feedback are offered and encouraged at each student’s comfort level. Motherhood NOT a prerequisite. Both new and more seasoned writers of all genders welcome. Friday night’s session helps set the stage, allows us to meet one another and start writing; Saturday provides time for deeper writing and reflection, and some opportunity and advice for revision and expansion. Participants will leave with lots of newly generated fodder, and a few new writerly friends! Participants should bring a journal or notebook, pen, water bottle, and a sack lunch and snacks for Saturday. *** Fee: $155 (Members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com. Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.

As Autumn beckons, capture the beauty of fall foliage with natural, plant-based additives to compliment the beautiful blues of your Cyanotypes with color. Join teaching artists Robin Wolfenden and Jen Wilkins in an expansive Cyanotype printmaking workshop on paper and fabric using the sun for exposure. Cyanotype can be used to make artwork ranging from the photographic to the abstract, from the traditional to the conceptual. Cyanotype papers and fabrics will be prepared and provided for you to begin making numerous experimental prints. You will then have the opportunity to prepare your own papers and fabrics in our darkroom. From the way you brush on the emulsion to how you wash the print, there are a multitude of intricacies that will make each print your own. We will explore adding color and texture before and after coating the paper, layering “Classic” Cyanotypes, recoating the cyanotype chemicals for a double exposure, and using natural additives such as rose petal water, turmeric, and soap bubbles to create intriguing free-flowing “Wet” Cyanotypes. Dress for the weather, as we will be moving from indoors to outdoors in the sun to process our prints. Students are encouraged to bring flowers, leaves and foliage from their own gardens. Bring lunch and snacks and a notebook or journal with pen. Water is provided in studio. Skill Level: all levels Pre-requisites: none Materials: Provided. *** Fee: $100 (Members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com. Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.

Onion skins, berries, and leaves make amazing dyes, all eco-friendly. Through a multistep process, you will learn how to use plant materials to create designs on paper and fabric. You’ll learn techniques that include the use of mordants and various types of materials that work well with eco-dyes as you work with these natural materials to create organic designs on paper and fabric. Skill Level: beginner Pre-requisites: curiosity and flexibility for working with an organic, sometimes unpredictable process Materials Students will be required to gather/bring for themselves: onion leaves, tree leaves, and other plant materials. A complete list will be provided to students on first day of class *** Fee: $245 (Members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) If the class is full but you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email registration@artandsoulnashville.com. Masks are not required in the studio, but please feel free to wear one. If you are vulnerable, let us know so we can provide a safe, masked space for you. If you’re ill, please cancel and help us keep everyone healthy. Any questions, contact info@artandsoulnashville.com.