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 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 20, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

“Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred…of purposely looking through the lens of love…The universe responds to your willingness to behold the holy by revealing almost everything as holy…This is what it means to be a mystic. To show up for what is, to be present to all that…

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…

May 31, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Join us Ecstatic Dance on May 31st from 3-5PM with facilitator Cassandra Kurth. Ecstatic Dance is a free-form dance practice where participants move to the music as they feel, connecting oneself through mind, body, and spirit. Each class is about two hours with breaks in between. Benefits of Ecstatic Dance include mood enhancement, stress and…

June 17, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

“Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred…of purposely looking through the lens of love…The universe responds to your willingness to behold the holy by revealing almost everything as holy…This is what it means to be a mystic. To show up for what is, to be present to all that…

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 15, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

“Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred…of purposely looking through the lens of love…The universe responds to your willingness to behold the holy by revealing almost everything as holy…This is what it means to be a mystic. To show up for what is, to be present to all that…

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…