Engaging in art soothes your brain. You can find a restorative space.

Research has proven that doing art can stimulate your thinking and expand your cognitive skills like creativity, curiosity, intellectual humility, and empathy. All good things.

Through art we are led to “deeper truths.”

“Art allows for the generation of new ideas and the synthesis of a new understanding.”
- Jonathon Schooler

Creating art benefits from your complete focus. You can set aside worries and everything else, to center your mind in the present. Figuratively the blank canvas of your mind on which to create art.

It’s the epitome of being in the moment and mindful.

By engaging your right brain, you allow your always “on alert” left brain a rare chance to step back and rest.

I teach watercolor, fiber art, drawing, and mixed media collage. I am a subject matter expert and an award-winning artist. Due to my decades long study of artists and art history, I can authentically dissect other artists’ work, and I am very good at explaining and demonstrating.

I have taught thousands of students in person, on-line, or through colleges, libraries, rec centers, in my studio, at bookstores, in homeschool programs, at Harvard University, and at large public gardens including the Missouri Botanical Garden and Cleveland Botanical Garden.
Building on my master’s degree from Harvard University in Museum Studies, I am able to weave the stories of artists and their journeys through history. Yes, it’s art history and to me, it’s an essential way to better understand our world. Call me crazy?

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