Creative Wellness Using Art With Joyce Raimondo on Zoom

Let Your Feelings Out Workshop (Wednesday, March 19th at 2 pm)

How can your feelings be expressed creatively and constructively in art? Discover how Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Pablo Picasso and other modern artists express their emotions in innovative paintings. Virtually tour the barn studio where Krasner and Pollock created their abstract expressionist masterpieces. Then let your feelings out as you create your own abstract artwork. Have paint supplies on hand.

Look Into the Future Workshop (Wednesday, April 2nd at 2 pm)

How can art help you clarify your aspirations for the future? We will begin with an inspirational presentation featuring Pollock, Krasner, and other artists who realized their creative dreams.  Then explore the power of clear thought as you envision the world you want to create for yourself and others in a collage vision boarding workshop. Supplies: glue, scissors, magazine pictures, surface for your art. Or make a drawing.

Inner Visions Workshop (Wednesday, April 16th at 2 pm)

Getting in touch with your inner life fosters good health. Discover how modern artists paint their inner world — the unconscious mind, the imagination, emotions or energy. Then Joyce will guide you in a series of exercises designed to tap into the unseen world of your unconscious mind. What will your art say to you? Have drawing or paint supplies on hand.

Financial Fitness for Artists (Presentation) (Wednesday, April 23rd at 2 pm)

How can an artists profit financially from their creative work? Discover the many ways famous artists Jackson Pollock, Marc Chagall, Andy Warhol and others earned a prosperous living making art. This session is designed to debunk the stereotype of the starving artist by highlighting avenues for artists to promote and sell their creative projects.

Art of Recovery (Presentation) (Wednesday, April 30th at 2 pm)

This session is designed to dispel myths about substance abuse and creativity. Joyce Raimondo presents Jackson Pollock’s alcoholism and its impact on his art and life. Pollock and his passenger Edith Metzger’s deaths were caused by a car accident as a result of Pollock driving while intoxicated in 1956. Following the art presentation, Joyce will discuss resources for recovery from alcoholism, and participants are invited to share art that addresses recovery from substance abuse.

Physical Challenges and Creative Opportunities (presentation) (Wednesday, May 7th at 2 pm)

How can an artist paint without eyesight or make huge works of art while bedridden? This Zoom event will highlight Lee Krasner and other famous artists such as Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, Claude Monet, and others whose physical challenges sparked creativity and innovative adaptive processes leading to the creation of masterpieces. Then visitors will virtually take a Zoom tour of Pollock and Krasner’s barn studio.

Creative Healing Workshop: Trauma and Art (Wednesday, May 14th at 2 pm)

How do artists move through trauma? Joyce will discuss artists who express their experience of trauma in painting, photography and sculpture. Learn how creativity can transform great pain into beauty and joy — affirming life. Following Joyce's presentation, participants are invited to draw or paint their own idea of a healing image. Have paint or drawing supplies on hand.

Art of Happiness Workshop (Wednesday, May 21st at 2 pm)

What is happiness? Joyce present famous artworks by Matisse, Renoir, and other painters that express the joy of living. Following Joyce's art presentation, participants are invited to draw or paint their own idea of what happiness means to them. Have drawing or paint supplies on hand.

Seeing Love Workshop (Wednesday, May 28th at 2 pm)

Explore the joys and sorrows of love through the eyes of great artists Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and others. Then create an artwork that expresses your personal experience of love. Have paint or drawing supplies on hand.

Registration is required.