Upcoming Programs &
Directed Retreats

April 9 - 25, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Bring your arts and crafts supplies or utilize our watercolor and pastel paints on Wednesdays from 10am-12pm to explore your creativity in a community setting. Feel inspired by surrounding yourself with other creatives and take time for yourself to focus on your artistic medium(s). There is no need to register for this event.

May 9 - 10, 2025
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Living as woman spirit within a woman’s body is both great gift and great challenge. Women of all ages and stages of life are invited to join us at Marywood as we celebrate our woman-ness and journey together toward the alchemical transformation of our pain or wounding to grace and love. Facilitators Wendie Libert, DNP;…

May 16 - 18, 2025
4:00 pm - 12:00 pm

In the northland, we wait with eager anticipation for the arrival of spring. The longing for warm breezes and flowers blooming in an artist’s palette of color sometimes makes us forget that we must first traverse the landscape of slush and mud and unexpected drifts of wet, March snow. Our spiritual lives are often fraught…

May 26 - 30, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

This week of watercolor we will concentrate on a number of ways to keep whites and lights in watercolor paintings. Because of the transparency of watercolor, learning to do this can greatly enhance paintings and create a luminous feel to the painting. We will also use white from other media to work with watercolor paints…

June 23 - 25, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Japanese Masa Paper fractures color into a beautiful network of lines similar to a batik. The process is all wet into wet initially in application and results in beautiful textured areas of softness that are perfect for nature motifs of leaf, flower, or garden subjects. More details in painting can bring the subject into sharper…

July 18 - 20, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Cold wax medium is applied to oil paints to increase transparency and workability.  The process allows a person to build up textural effects and transparent layers.  We will create abstracts and landscapes as we learn to paint with the wax and oil paints.  We will have an introduction to medium and a variety of applications…

August 7 - 9, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Alcohol Inks will be painted on Yupo Paper (provided), which is an ultra smooth, acid free synthetic paper with a velvety smooth surface that  also takes pen, ink, pencil and marker. As a watercolor paper Yupo has unique advantages and also challenges as it’s a non-absorbent surface that makes color sit on top. Because the…

September 8 - 10, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Needle felting is an exciting and versatile hobby adaptable to art forms. Discover how amazing it is to design and sculpt wool with specialized needles. You will be introduced to several easy steps enabling you to produce a variety of designs and inspiring you to experiment after the class with your own ideas. All materials will be…