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Come and enter the Animal Kingdom World and learn how to create whimsical and colorful abstract Animal Mixed Media works of Art with Lisa Binder. Lisa will use animal spirit cards as a jumping off place for inspiration and will demonstrate different techniques you can use to create Colorful Chickens, Flying Wolves, Laughing Dogs, Spiritual Ravens, and more. The options are endless, and all techniques can be used in other types of paintings as well—even Whimsical Human Portraits of the Self! Come and play with paint, markers, pencils and papers, and come away with a one-of-a-kind Abstract Animal Art piece of work and new ways of approaching and growing your artistic practice! Skill Level of student: Any     Pre-requisites:   None Materials needed: Teacher will have the following materials available for an additional $25 fee payable directly to her. If students prefer, they can bring their own.* Acrylic Paint, Mixed Media or Collage Papers of any kind, Soft Gel Medium, Paint Pens, Canvas or Canvas Board or Wood Panel *** 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.

You’ve experienced the playful, creative process of making your own cards for self-discovery and personal guidance. In this full day experience, you’ll dive deeper into your SoulCollage® practice with trained SoulCollage® facilitator Lesley Patterson-Marx. Several hours will be dedicated to making cards and building your SoulCollage® deck in a quiet, contemplative, restorative environment. Lesley will also guide you into new card-making themes and learning topics based on the process as you make and share your cards in a supportive community. Prerequisite: Introduction to SoulCollage® or previous SoulCollage® experience Skill Level: Any Materials that teacher will provide, for which reimbursement is needed: pre-cut cards, high quality glue sticks, magazines, deli paper, wipes, card frames, card sleeves. Materials Students will be required to gather/bring for themselves: good scissors or #11 xacto knife with extra blades, self-healing cutting mat (optional and only needed if you are using an xacto knife) *** Fee: $115 (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.

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.

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.

Through a playful creative process, make your own cards that have the potential to connect you to self-discovery and provide personal guidance. Trained SoulCollage® facilitator Lesley Patterson-Marx will guide you in this expressive collage art practice wherein images and glue are transformed into your own deck of 5”x8” cards infused with personal meaning that can help you navigate life’s questions. You don’t have to be an artist to make these wonderful cards in this introduction to a process that is both powerful and a lot of fun. Soul Collage, founded by therapist Seena B. Frost, is a practice that can be done individually or in community. In addition to making several cards in this workshop, you will learn to do your own readings and discover techniques for using your cards as journaling and writing prompts. You will have the opportunity to “speak” from your cards, sharing their meaning with fellow workshop participants in a nurturing, supportive environment. Participants should bring a sack and water bottle, journal or notebook, and wear clothes for movement and mess-making. Skill Level: all levels Pre-requisites: none Materials provided: pre-cut cards, high quality glue sticks, magazines, Nori glue, glue brushes, decorative papers Materials Students will be required to gather/bring for themselves: good scissors or #11 x-acto knife with extra blades, self healing cutting mat (optional and only needed if you are using an x-acto knife) *** Fee: $165 (Members 15% discount with coupon code at checkout) Dates for 2024: February 10 August 24 November 9 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.

“Memory believes before knowing remembers.” – William Faulkner – Memories can be a rich source of inspiration for any type of writing. Explore some tips for writing memoir and dive into your favorite memories—funny, poignant, frightening, daring, joyful. 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 own memories 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 memories in writing. Skill Level: none Pre-requisites: none Materials Students will be required to gather/bring for themselves: journal or notebook and pen or pencil *** Fee: $60 (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.

“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.

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.

Want to draw your dog or cat, a bird, a dragonfly, or even a tiger? With a few tips on line and shape and shading—and a little practice—you can. In a nonjudgmental environment, we’ll warm up with some basics. Then we’ll move into combining those basics to create the animal of your choice. You can bring a photograph or use pictures provided for you. Whether you’re a beginner at drawing or simply want a refresher, you’ll find inspiration, artistic options, and time to practice your own style. 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.

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.

“Be like water.” ~ Bruce Lee Explore the possibilities of painting with water media! Join Elizabeth Sanford—watercolorist, paper artist, and trusted guide—as you play with a variety of fluid paints and paper surfaces. During weekly demonstrations, students will experiment with watercolors, acrylic inks, fluid acrylics, gouache, and more within a supportive and encouraging circle. A mix of instruction and intuition will help you create unique layered textures and luminous hues using a variety of tools and methods. Ways to incorporate line work with pens, pastels, colored pencils, and/or resists will also be covered. All levels are welcome. NOTE: During the first class, we’ll discuss the suggested supply list while actively experimenting with a variety of furnished materials. Subsequent demonstrations will be tailored to the participants’ specific interests. Supplies needed will vary depending on each student’s interests, with options to fit a variety of budgets. The class fee covers all supplies for the first class session and the weekly demos. If desired, students may expand their options by using a range of surfaces, such as cold press and hot press paper, Claybord, or Yupo. Skill Level: any skill level Pre-requisites: none Materials that teacher will provide: various materials for the first class Participants should bring a reusable water bottle and snacks for each three-hour class. *** Fee: $185 (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.