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Upcoming 2025 Art Therapy Workshop Schedule
Be Your Own Biggest Fan: Pride Celebration Workshop
June 7, 2025 -- 12:00-3:00 pm Cost: $80
What better way to celebrate Pride month than to remind yourself that you are your biggest fan! Paint and decorate a large fabric fan with whatever design you choose, letting your Pride and true self show for all the world to see while keeping cool in the Florida heat. A portion of all profits will be donated to LGBTQIA+ charities. This workshop will be repeated on June 21st if you can't make it for the 7th!
Be Your Own Biggest Fan: Pride Celebration Workshop
June 21, 2025 -- 12:00-3:00 pm Cost: $80
What better way to celebrate Pride month than to remind yourself that you are your biggest fan! Paint and decorate a large fabric fan with whatever design you choose, letting your Pride and true self show for all the world to see while keeping cool in the Florida heat. A portion of all profits will be donated to LGBTQIA+ charities.
Celebrate Your Independence (from Negativity)
July 5, 2025 -- 12:00-3:00 pm Cost: $65
Create a positivity vision board in this three-hour workshop designed to celebrate your independence from negative thought patterns and self-talk. Using standard collage materials, you will design and manifest your own version of positivity as we celebrate letting go of the negative emotions, thoughts, and worries in our lives.
Temari I: Squaring the Circle
July 19, 2025 -- 12:00-4:00 pm Cost: $80
Dive into the ancient. meditative, and beautiful art of Temari-e, Japanese embroidered thread balls as we discuss Jung's concept of "Squaring the Circle" as a part of the personal journey we all make in life. Learn to construct, mark, and embroider a simple interlocking squares design. This workshop is the first in a series, with future workshops focusing on more complex designs. This is a manually intensive workshop.
The Elegance of Paper Filigree
August 2, 2025 -- 12:00-4:00 pm Cost: $90
Popular with noble and upper class ladies in the 1700s and 1800s, Paper Filigree or Quilling uses strips of paper to create three-dimensional designs on a background. Choose from a variety of kits or learn to make a monogram letter in this four-hour workshop. All supplies are included.
Temari II: Mums and Meditation
August 16, 2025 -- 12:00-4:00 pm Cost: $80
Take your Temari skills to the next level while coming to understand the meditative aspect of this beautiful, ancient craft. In the second workshop of our Temari series, you will learn to create a classic design, the Mum, with overlapping petals on a 16-division mari. You will soon get into a rhythm that creates a meditative flow state, keeping you present and in the now. Temari-e is a manually intensive craft and may not be suitable for those with dexterity or hand issues.
Create Your Own Dream Guardian
September 6, 2025 -- 12:00-3:00 pm Cost: $65
Dream Guardians watch over us as we sleep, but they also protect our dreams from negative outside forces. In this fun and creative, anything-goes workshop, what form will your Guardian take? Using two- and three-dimensional media, craft your Dream Guardian so it can stand between you and the world's negativity so your dreams can grow and flourish!
Temari III: Reflective Rose Garden
September 20, 2025 -- 12:00-4:00 pm Cost: $80
The rose is a symbol of elegance, love, friendship, and beauty, and in this third Temari workshop, you will construct your mari before embellishing it with a 10-division overlapping design known as the Rose Garden. Choose your colors and create an elegant beauty or a vibrant bloom as you reflect on the meaning behind your personal, hand-held rose garden. Temari-e is a manually intensive craft and may not be suitable for those with dexterity or hand issues.
Into the Wardrobe
October 4, 2025 -- 12:00-3:00 pm Cost: $65
In C. S. Lewis' Narnia series, the protagonists travel through a magical wardrobe into another land that seems idyllic at first. But not everything is as it seems. There is danger and war in Narnia, just as there is at home. In this workshop, we create what we might find inside our own magical wardrobe, both good and bad, and process what it means to find that the idyllic is not all that we can ask for in life.
Fairy Boxes
October 18, 2025 -- 12:00-3:00 pm Cost: $65
A sprinkle of glitter, a mushroom house, a few bits and baubles to attract the positive energy associated with fairies and you have a fairy box. Using upcycled and recycled materials, provided by Rara Avis or bring your own, we will create small dioramas that evoke the wonder and glee of the Wee Folk.
Layers of the Self: Reflection using Matryoshka Dolls
November 1 & 8, 2025 -- 12:00-4:00 pm each day Cost: $140
Using traditional wooden nesting dolls or Matryoshka as a vehicle for self-reflection, you willl design and decorate a 6-layer nesting doll that reflects the layers of your personality and the inner self. This is a two-part workshop across two weekends.
Gnomes for the Holidays
December 6, 2025 -- 12:00-3:00 pm Cost: $65
With simple supplies like socks and buckwheat hulls, create a lovable little gnome that doubles as a handheld heating pod that is perfect for soothing cold hands, sinus pressure, or muscle aches. Come anytime between 12 and 3 pm, as construction of your gnome will take approximately an hour. Not recommended for those with gluten sensitivity.