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Explore body empowerment through art with teaching artists Robin Wolfenden and Jen Wilkins. We will create a spiritual, tactile, and visual plaster cast of a part of your body. Whether your intention is to honor your hands, feet, torso, or head, we will guide you to the sacred space of healing through the arts. "Body Empowerment is the process of taking charge of your body and mind, embracing your unique features, and finding ways to amplify your strengths. Body empowerment is not about conforming to societal standards of beauty but rather about accepting and loving yourself for who you are. It is a journey that requires patience, self-discipline, and self-love.” – FemiLead.com In this 2-part workshop, you will work with a partner in a trusting, safe environment, first with a guided meditation to determine where we will be placing our energies. Then your partner will assist you in applying layers of Plaster Craft onto your body according to your choice. In return, you will assist your partner. Your plaster cast will need a week to dry completely. During that time, you can gather ideas on how you wish to embellish your plaster cast in your own unique way. In the second half of the workshop, you will honor your sacred mask by adding paint, collage, artifacts, or whatever you wish. We will end by witnessing a play piece that you create to show your journey. Be prepared to get messy! If you choose to create a face mask, your hair will be protected with saran wrap, and your face will be covered with Vaseline jelly so the plaster masks slips off easily. We can clean you up with baby wipes! Skill Level: none Pre-requisites: none Materials that teacher will provide, for which reimbursement is needed: plaster cast, Saran Wrap, Vaseline, baby wipes Materials Students will be required to gather/bring for themselves: for the second day, materials that they want to use to enhance their masks *** Fee: $225 (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.

“Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see.” – Kimon Nicolaides – Drawing can be a dance or a meditation, an expression of emotions or a holder of secrets—and it all begins with a line. Whether you’re a beginner at drawing or simply want a refresher for the drawing you already do (even in painting and collage), in this class, you’ll find inspiration, artistic options, and time to practice your own marks. With gestural lines, we’ll explore the movement inherent in simple still life objects. Then we’ll look at objects more closely with slower contour drawings. In a nonjudgmental environment, you’ll explore the lines made by a variety of material and get a feel for your favorites as well as discovering the type of lines you most enjoy making. Skill Level: none Pre-requisites: none The studio will provide: Pencils Charcoal Drawing paper Erasers Students should bring: 9”x12” sketch pad Sharpened drawing pencils in varying degrees of hardness (in the 4B to 2H range) A kneaded eraser A sack lunch *** 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.

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.

Jumpstart a fresh relationship to creative possibility by discovering how your daydreams are latent with guidance from your most authentic and Creative Self in this whimsical one day session with Anne Putnam. In this workshop, we get curious about Dream Images and what they might have to say about your creative endeavors and blocks. You'll learn how to authentically approach daydreams, reverie, and even memory and then translate these images into guidance and vivid creative expression. The techniques shared may also ignite your night-time dreams, and we do welcome dreaming of all kinds in this session! Skill Level: all levels Pre-requisites: none Participants need to bring a bag lunch and a personal memento they'd like to share with the group. *** Fee: $75 (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.

Come celebrate with More Mixed Media! On the first day, you’ll alter National Geographic magazine pages with Citra Solve, Polymer GAC 100, stencils and Never Dull, as well as make 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. On the second day, Lisa will show you different ways to incorporate these original papers into wonderful works of art using acrylic paint, gesso, paint pens and more. The options are endless. Whether you are a beginner or a repeat Mixed Media enthusiast, there is always something new to add to your tool box from this class. See what a fun and wonderful transformation your artmaking process takes! Skill Level: any skill level Pre-requisites: none Materials that the facilitator will provide: canvas board or panels, Never Dull, Gac 100, found papers, paint pens, brown paper bags, semi-gloss soft gel medium, gesso  Lisa will have extra materials available for an additional $15 fee payable directly to her Materials students will be required to gather/bring for themselves: any of the above that participant 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.

Join visiting Bluegrass Stamper A.J. Steele for an evening of exploring the creative art of stamping. Add stamping techniques to your mixed media toolbox. A.J. will demonstrate stamp art with gelli printing, embossing, die cutting, and mixed media on canvas. All materials will be provided. This class is a preview of Saturday’s STAMPede fundraiser. Skill Level: any Pre-requisites: none All materials will be provided. *** Fee: $30 (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.

“Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone.” Paul Cézanne Discover the wonder of nature through sketching. We’ll explore the big picture—noticing perspective in landscape—and the close-up, paying attention to negative spaces and creating texture in tree trunks using hard and soft pencils and the “tooth” of paper. If the weather permits, we’ll go outside to draw. Whether you’re a beginner or simply want a refresher, in this class, you’ll find inspiration, artistic options, and time to practice drawing trees, flowers, and landscapes in a nonjudgmental environment. Join us as we discover the meditative joy of deeply noticing and drawing nature. Skill Level: none Pre-requisites: none The studio will provide: Pencils Charcoal Drawing paper Erasers Students should bring: 9”x12” sketch pad Sharpened drawing pencils in varying degrees of hardness (in the 4B to 2H range) A kneaded eraser A sack lunch *** 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.

Come Tiptoe into the glorious realm of texture in this two day workshop with Lisa Binder. Lisa will take you through the steps to learn different techniques to create rich and exciting dimension in your works of art. Under paintings of textured gesso, tin foil, gel, and more will get you on your way to amazing abstract creations with dimension. You will have one whole day devoted to texture making on several canvases and then one whole day to reveal what happens when you apply paint on top. Ever admire a painting with texture so much you wanted to touch it? Then this workshop is for you! So come learn how it is done and make your own magic with Texture! Skill Level: all skill levels welcome Pre-requisites: none Materials that the facilitator will provide: with the exception of canvases, Lisa will have extra materials available for an additional $25 fee payable directly to her on the day of class. Materials participants will be required to gather/bring for themselves: canvases or cradle boards acrylic paint gesso altered or collage papers, musical scores, old letters or any other collage material semi-gloss soft gel medium semi-gloss heavy gel aluminum foil, corrugated cardboard, fabric, string Participants should also bring a sack lunch and water bottle, journal or notebook, and wear clothes for movement and mess-making. ** Fee: $225 (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.

Join our Creative Arts class, where we explore the practices of movement, sounding, meditation, poetry, and diving deep into the world of creativity. Your artistic gifts are nurtured within a supportive community of art companions. All artistic modalities are encouraged. (Formerly CADP 2) Together, we form a creative crew, inspired by one another. We will work and play to discover new paths. As we grow and expand our artistic horizons, we practice showing up and moving forward. We'll learn to pause, hold space, and embrace adversity during this journey. We will focus on seeing in new ways and learn to catch the patterns of progress even in the unknown-making process. We encourage inner and outer work, a natural and iterative process that explores the wholeness of the creative container. It's an invitation to join the circle and find your unique voice. You may use all modalities to begin and finish your works. Our class fosters a supportive environment where you can slow down and drop in, staying grounded as you go big or notice the small things. Let go of limitations and move forward with support and inspiration, discovering what wants to come next. Embrace the present moment with mindfulness as we sort, learn, listen, and explore this wild and precious life. Join us on this creative journey, and let your artistic spirit flourish. CADP I is required to take this class Tuesday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. 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.

“Shadow is a beautiful, inverse confirmation of our incarnation.” – David Whyte Join Amanda Cantrell Roche and Robin Wolfenden in celebrating our divine selves through movement, writing, and art, owning and honoring the space we occupy in body and spirit. The experience culminates with an image of yourself in the form of a life size Cyanotype created with the help and encouragement of friends. *** Fee: $125 (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.

“What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, is that somewhere it hides a well.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry– In a world of hurt, how can we write toward hope? We’ll look for your own unique signposts that mark paths to the warmer emotions in your writing and blend intention with the free flow of intuition. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or are just jumping in, join published writer and trained writing coach Karyn Henley as she gently leads the way through non-judgmental, fun and freeing writing prompts, tips, and exercises that will nudge you to explore your voice on the page. You can keep what you write private or share it in supportive community. Either way, our free, open practice of playing with words and thoughts can help you discover, nurture, and honor your path toward hope. Skill Level: none Pre-requisites: none The studio will provide notebooks and pens. But students may bring a journal or notebook and pen or pencil if they wish. *** 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.