Workshops & Groups
Magical Manifestations: 2026 Vision Board Workshop (GVL)
January 6th, 2026 | 6pm-7:45 pm ET
HeARTS for Hope, Greenville SC
$26
Start the new year with creativity and intention. In this art therapy workshop, we’ll begin with a guided meditation and journaling exercise to help you tune inward and find clarity on what you to bring into 2026. Then you’ll create a collage vision board to serve as a visual guide to help you manifest your dreams in the new year. No artistic experience is needed—just curiosity and a desire to begin the year rooted in meaning. Come connect, create, and step into 2026 with purpose.
New Year Nature Collages(AVL)
January 17th, 2026 | Time TBD
Open Hearts Art Center, Asheville NC
$40
Welcome the new year with intention, creativity, and connection to the natural world. In this 2-hour art therapy workshop, we’ll begin with a grounding meditation to gently reflect on what we are ready to release and what we wish to invite in as we move into the new year. Then you’ll create your own nature collage on a wooden plaque to make a mandala—a visual expression of your intentions for the year ahead. Mandalas are circular designs found across many cultural and spiritual traditions, symbolizing wholeness, unity, and the cyclical nature of life. As you arrange dried leaves, feathers, nuts, and pressed botanicals, you’ll be invited to move slowly, listen inward, and let the process guide you.
This workshop offers a spacious, supportive environment to honor your path and set meaningful intentions through art and nature. No art experience is needed—just an open heart and a willingness to be present.
Turning the Page on Helene Altered Book
Drop- In
January 15th, 2026 | 6-8:30 pm ET
Character Study | Asheville, NC
From storm to story—join us in transforming unwanted books into powerful art that captures out community’s collective experience of Hurricane Helene. Find out how old abandoned books can be repurposed into works of art, then make pages yourself! Turning the Page on Helene is a community-based altered art book project designed to help community members process and express their experiences of Helene and hopes for the future. No artistic experience is required to participate- just bring your imagination, your stories, and a willingness to get crafty. This is a drop-in event and does not require registration.
At our January workshop we will also be compiling the artwork into the altered book format. Come see how it is done and appreciate all the artwork made by our community.
Past Workshops & Groups
Nature Mandala: Art Therapy Workshop (GVL)
Open Hearts Art Center, Asheville NC
HeARTS for Hope, Greenville SC
Settle into the quiet rhythm of the earth and remember what it feels like to be rooted.
In this immersive art therapy workshop, we’ll begin with a guided meditation on the turning of the seasons—an invitation to honor cycles of change, growth, and release. Then we’ll take a short, mindful walk outdoors to gather natural materials—fallen leaves, seeds, petals, twigs—gifts from the world around us. Back in the studio, you’ll create a personal mandala on a wooden plaque, arranging found and dried botanicals into a design that reflects your inner landscape. No art experience needed. Just bring yourself, exactly as you are.
Finding Gratitude: Poetry & Collage Art Therapy Workshop
HeARTS for Hope, Greenville SC
Tap into the season of gratitude, using found words to create a visual and poetic expression of inner appreciation. Join us this November for a creative journey dedicated to gratitude. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore thankfulness through the art of found word poetry and mixed-media collage. We’ll begin with a guided gratitude meditation and journaling to help you connect with your intuition, then dive into old books and magazines to uncover words and phrases that speak to your heart. These “found words” will form the basis of your own gratitude poem, which you’ll then translate into a vibrant collage on canvas or in a new art journal. The workshop will close with an optional sharing circle, offering space to read your poem and reflect with a supportive community. No art or poetry experience is needed—just bring an open heart and leave with a beautiful, tangible expression of gratitude.
From Brokenness Comes Beauty: A Kintsugi Art Therapy Workshop
Ella DuFrene’s Art Therapy Studio, Marshall NC
Embrace the spirit of Kintsugi, where gold-filled cracks remind us that healing can make us even more whole and our imperfections make us beautiful. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore this mindful practice as both an art form and a metaphor for healing. Through guided meditation, journaling, and the process of repairing ceramics, you’ll transform what once seemed broken into something luminous and whole—a golden reflection of resilience, renewal, and the art of embracing imperfection. No art experience is needed—just bring yourself, just the way you are. Materials are provided.