In-Person Classes
To learn more about my approach to teaching, please read “My Ten Principles.”
“This was my first class with you, and it exceeded my expectations and brought me exactly what I dared to hope for—allowing me to take my practice of art into a more more essential, integrated, and nurturing place in my life.”
— Cynthia, Speak to Me From Everywhere | Nov 2020
Everything Blossoms from Within | Rhode Island | June 2025
This class is full. You may join the waiting list here.
The University of Rhode Island
Multi-Cultural Student Services Center Forum
74 Lower College Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Habit of Twilight | Taos | Mar 2026
The muse arrives in twilight, where and when we least expect her, at gloaming time. She arrives with the invisible secrets of air. You don’t need any special gift or skill to invoke the muse, only the willingness to sit in the sun or under the moon and listen.
In Taos we will cultivate the habit of twilight through creative expression. Each of you will take home a testimonial to the work you do in the form of a handmade book. All levels of experience are welcome.
Bone to Blossom | Taos, NM | Jun 2026
It happens in a moment. Inspiration comes upon us without notice and too quickly to process. The word comes from the Latin inpirare, to breathe or blow into. It’s as if inspiration looks for a place where there is space to land. The arrival of this gift cannot be commanded, but we can make an environment that cultivates a clear channel.
Bone to Blossom is an image of this change, how in one moment of inspiration something can unfold and open.
This is the atmosphere that is in our classroom in Taos. We protect this space as a rare gift of uninterrupted time by being willing to leave phones, watches and other interrupters outside the classroom.
Join us for writing, painting, and bookmaking. This class is open to all levels of experience.
What Beckons You | Taos, NM | March 2025
This class is full.
“There was a time when words and pictures were one. There was a time, words were pictures and pictures were words.” — Orhan Pamuk
The idea of words and pictures being one strikes me each time I return to a 40,000 year old cave painting. The painting is the story, the images are the words. How can we collaborate with a landscape? Use words and image to portray our experience ?
Join us for a week of creativity in a contemplative atmosphere. All levels of experience welcome.
Here & Now Again | Tuscany, Italy | 2024
This class is full. To get on the wait list, register below.
Because we love working together so much in this spectacular venue in Tuscany, we decided to offer our course again, with unpredictable improvisational changes. We have a pool, amazing food, a lot of room to work in different spaces, a half-day off to explore, and we are hoping to have another fantastic group of students. The result of this course will be a book you make with the four international teachers. The theme of the book will be “Here and Now Again”. …..
The Calligraphic Line | San Francisco | 2023
This class is full.
We will work with phrases, or short quotes, that have meaning for you. Notice what touches you, what you respond to, and begin collecting words from poems or songs or newspapers or books or conversation, and write or paste them down.
Leap Before You Look | Berlin, Germany | 2023
This class is full.
Hans-Joachim Burgert, German sculptor and calligrapher, was a hero of mine before I knew his name. Like Paul Klee, he experimented with quality of line through rhythm, contrast, direction and repetition. This class is based on a love for Burgert’s work, and a continuing striving to understand more. We will explore drawing and writing with ink, pencil and paint, using various calligraphic and found tools. The class will be held at Akademie der Künste in Berlin, where we have access to his original work. Through this study, I hope that we will all make new discoveries in his work, and in our own. We will make a simple book showing our explorations.
“Make Your Own Bible” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | Taos, NM | 2023
This class is full. To get on the waiting list, click here.
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This idea, along with Gerard Manley Hopkins idea of “inscape”, (which I will address later) is what is fueling the theme for my 2023 classes.
Martin Ray “Young at Heart” Memorial Scholarship
New scholarship in honor of a treasured student