Paint as you like and live happy!
​Dancing with the unknown, exploring inner and outer worlds, laughing and playing, learning to deal with self-doubt and creative frustration, expressing yourself, and discovering YOUR unique voice...it's challenging and oh-so-fun!

 2023

​*September 19-22- Pacific Northwest Art School on Whidbey Island. A wonderful painting studio in the quaint & quirky Coupeville, WA! Go HERE for registration information. Only a couple spots left.

* October 12-15- New Braunfels Art League, New Braunfels, TX. A great studio space with tv demo monitors, good restaurants nearby and always a full class of great students! Go HERE for registration. 
Class is full with a wait list.

​*October 25-28- Franciscan Life Process Center, Lowell, MI. HERE is the link for a class description and for registration! This is a new venue for me and I'm thrilled about their programs and location! Contact Kathy if you have more questions.  

*November 10-12- Ingrid Albrecht Studio, Chicago, IL. A 3-day boutique workshop, an exclusive experience for only 8 participants. * November 13-15- Due to abundance of interest, we've opened a 2nd session! Go to THIS LINK for information and to register.
​2nd Session has openings!
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2024
*February 1-3- Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, FL Intuitive Abstract Painting,  “Draw, scrape, roll, drag, spray, stamp, lift, write, and drip, with innovative techniques and a mindset of relaxed awareness designed to cultivate your curiosity and self-confidence.
Go HERE for information/registration!  

*February 5-7- Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, FL Abstracting the Landscape, With “Landscape” as our inspiration, we’ll exaggerate, fracture, emphasize, distort, eliminate, and rearrange with freedom and curiosity.  Go HERE for information/registration! 

*February 29-March 3-  ​Intuitive Acrylic Painting and Collage, New Braunfels Art League, NEW BRAUNFELS, TX Delightful studio in the historic downtown area. Such a blast every year!!
Find the details HERE! 

* April 15-19-Paint Yourself Free! Explorations with Acrylic and Collage, Artists Rising Creativity Retreats-Clastonbury, CT
We'll all stay at the beautiful Connecticut River Valley Inn!
Go here for discription and to register. Contact Patricia

*May 6-10- Madeline Island School of Art presents, Paint Yourself Free in the Land of Enchantment! Santa Fe, NM Last year our group really bonded during our adventures creating. I can't wait to return. For details and to register go HERE. 

*August 27-30- Paint Yourself Free, Blacksburg Regional Art Association, Blacksburg, VA. Details coming soon.

*September 9-13, Mixed Media Smorgasbord, Palette Productions, Pensacola, FL Experiment with a selection of innovative techniques and a mindset of relaxed awareness, designed to cultivate your curiosity and self-confidence. This venue isn't the fanciest, but it NEVER disappoints in terms of creativity and fun!! I look forward to this class every year!
 HERE is the link for information and to register! 

*September 24-27 Sedona Art Center, Contemporary Mixed Media. Let's immerse ourselves in the magic of Sedona and let the art process reveal new possibilities; join us in the "Art Barn"! For information and to register go HERE.

*October 10-13- Intuitive Abstraction with Acrylic and Collage, Oregon Society of Artists, Portland, OR 503-228-0706


 

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I have been to a lot of art workshops over the past five years.  This one was the best. Joan is very bright, likeable, knowledgeable, surprisingly funny, encouraging and a fine artist.  She is flexible enough to present an approach and then be supportive if you end up going in quite a different direction.  Her demonstrations - with ongoing commentary as she works - are as good as they get.

My best,  Jeff



Thank you for the huge role you played in my wonderful and creative Kanuga experience.  When I describe it to friends, they tell me that I light up! You helped me breakdown barriers that had held me staring at blank paper for months.  All I have to do now is grab my bubble gum cig, my bottled beverage, a piece of charcoal, some drippy paint - and before you know it, I have an under-painting (pants) and inspiration for moving forward!

Your approach also helped bring our class together as community of sharing and inspiring artists.  So thanks to all of my fellow classmate artists too. I loved meeting everyone and hope you are all holding on to the energy we created together at Kanuga.

Rowanne


Joan,
Just wanted to tell you that I found last week's workshop most helpful-- in terms of both technique and motivation. Many thanks for your professional and inspirational approach to painting and your obvious interest in helping others to gain greater skill and creativity.
Janis Foley

I want you to know how inspired I was by your class, and feel that my work has changed dramatically just in these last few weeks. I now have a way to start my pieces, using your Miss Bossy Pants techniques, and it has made a profound difference. I am gradually making it my own, finding what order and techniques I seem to resonate to, and feel so much freer and confident that something will emerge that I can work with.

Weeks prior to your class, I had just decided to take a self imposed sabbatical for at least a year freeing myself from being so focused on selling my work and painting what the world seemed to want. I needed to return to creating from that inspired place which allows for whatever wants and needs to come forth freely and openly without limitations. Your class was a perfect way to kick off this time of exploration and experimentation. The timing of this class was in perfect alignment for me, and you were the perfect teacher.

Thank you so much. I look forward to attending another workshop with you down the road.

Jackie (Roliardi)