Join Kat Kirby for a Creative Inspiration Art Retreat! If you’d love 5 days of enjoying creative time in the magical landscape of the high desert in Carefree, Arizona, join Kat Kirby at Spirit in the Desert. Allow yourself to create without expectation or judgement, and bring out that inner kindergartener who loves to play with art materials.
Participants will be making an upcycled journal, Gelli printed papers, and a shrine to honor someone or something that has deep meaning for you. Also, you will each get a free “Creativity Coaching” session with me if you would like that. I have been helping creative folks get “unstuck” and continue to reach their goals for years.
We will also have “open studio” for you to do explore creative materials in a safe and inspiring space.
You’ll discover your own expressive style and develop and enhance your creative process in guided studio sessions involving a variety of art materials.
Creative Inspiration
This Creative Inspiration Art Retreat is designed to invigorate your artistic senses and help you find new ways to relax and renew. You will feel welcomed and encouraged to explore your creative side. Your imagination and sleeping “inner artist” will awake and delight you. And you will be given tools to continue your exploration of the arts when you return home.
Let Kat help you answer these questions in a beautiful space:
- Who are you creatively?
- How do you express yourself with words and images?
- What is your “creative language”?
In addition to being fun, art making can be healing, informative, insightful, encouraging, and especially in community with like-hearted folks.
Your art journal will be created using a hard-cover book, and you will create your own signatures (or groups of pages) to begin your story. Kat will guide you through each step with lots of encouragement.
The shrine can be made from a box of your choice: a cigar box, shoe box, kitchen matchbox, or tissue box. It could be something round, like a candy tin or hubcap. You are only limited by your imagination.
And we will be creating our own collage papers using the wonderful Gelli Plate and paints and stencils. Again, you will be taken through each creative step with care and clarity!
About Kat Kirby
Kat Kirby was born and raised in New Jersey, into a family that valued art, music, theater, and all things creative. She learned at an early age that creativity and self-expression were keys to a fulfilling life.
Since the early 1970s, Kat has been a believer in the healing power of the arts and creative self-expression. Kat is retired from a 40-year career as an Expressive Arts Therapist. Her passions include teaching a variety of workshops such as creating art journals, mosaics, SoulCollage®, handmade books, Mixed Media arts, watercolors and doodles, and more. She has led art retreats around the world, including France, Portugal, the Caribbean, as well as Sedona, Carefree, AZ, and California. Kat enjoys exploring and experimenting with art materials, and loves encouraging her students and retreatants to make friends with their inner kindergartener.
When she teaches, whether it be virtual or in person, her two rules are:
- You can’t be wrong, and
- Have fun!
Register
Space is limited. Register and read details on cost, payments, cancellations, refunds, etc. on Kat’s website.
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