Connect: A New Year’s Virtual Art Retreat for 2026
Connect: A New Year’s Virtual Art Retreat for 2026
Saturday, January 17 and Sunday, January 18, 2026, 10am - 5pm
The New Year is a perfect time to reflect on the past year and to connect with yourself and what you want from the year to come.
You’re invited to spend a weekend making, creating, reflecting, and connecting from the comfort of your own home or studio. Explore words, images, and art materials as you reflect on your life, your art, and your ideas. Explore the things that you connect to the most, and envision what the New Year can bring for you as we engage in structured exploration, independent inquiry, and quiet contemplation.
Connect with a community of fellow creative souls for this unique experience as you deepen your artistic practice, learn more about yourself, and look forward to what the future holds. Walk away feeling reconnected to yourself and your art.
This is a live virtual workshop, and we will meet via Zoom the days of the workshop. But the class will be recorded and will be made available for those who cannot make the live workshop or who want to revisit it later.
This is pay-what-you-can workshop, so please select what you would like to pay below. Once you pay, you will receive an automated confirmation. If you do not receive the email, please check your spam and junk folders, and make certain that you have added my email address to your address book to ensure that you receive future emails from me. Approximately one week before the workshop, I will email out the Zoom link and password.
The schedule for each day will be structured as follows:
10-11am — Whole Group Instruction
11am-12pm — Independent Work
12-1pm — Whole Group Instruction
1-2pm — Lunch
2-3pm — Whole Group Instruction
3-4pm — Independent Work
4-5pm — Whole Group Instruction and Sharing
Supplies Needed:
Though we may be pursuing our own ideas and using different materials, there will be a variety of activities and exercises designed to help us explore, experiment, and reflect. So having the following materials, in addition to the ones you wish to explore, will be useful.
A visual journal, sketchbook, or loose paper - A mixed media journal is a good choice since it has paper designed to withstand a wide variety of paints, but use whatever works for you. It does not need to be a new book. Or use a number of loose pieces of paper to make individual works of art.
Paint - Watercolor and acrylic will both work. I’ll be using watercolor paint and watercolor pencil
Mark making items - It’s always great to create interesting marks and textures with paint. I love using plastic mesh, bubble wrap, cardboard, string, and even my fingers to play with how I apply paint.
Variety of paint brushes
Scissors
Glue Stick - I like UHU, but if you’re using acrylic paint, acrylic medium is suitable
Markers, pens, and pencils - a variety of waterproof and water-soluble writing and drawing materials; paint markers are great to use
Papers - I like having a variety of loose papers to use in my journaling, and I always have tracing paper, drawing paper, and colored papers on hand.
Collage materials - We’ll be using an assortment of items to glue into the journal, but try to find things that are personal. I love using movie tickets, mementos from travel, post cards, bottle labels, and other ephemera that I accumulate in day-to-day life.
What you get:
8 hours of live instruction through Zoom and 4 hours of independent work time over two-days
Access to recorded and archived videos to revisit anytime
Access to the private Journal Fodder Junkies Online Workshop group to share work, ask questions, and get feedback
Email and direct message support
Refunds and Cancellations:
Life gets busy, and unexpected things come up, but due to nature of this class, no refunds will be issued. Individual retreat sessions will be recorded and accessible anytime through multiple devices indefinitely.