Community workshops
No art experience needed. No pressure to be perfect. Just you, your creativity, and a room full of people ready to exhale.
What to Expect
Long enough to get into a creative flow. Short enough to fit into a real life.
Paint, canvas, clay, sculpting tools, aromatherapy, music, and more - we bring everything. You bring yourself.
Intimate enough to feel safe. Large enough to feel the energy of community creation.
Sessions held in the communities we serve. Mobile - we come to you for private events.
No pressure, no judgment. Our facilitator creates a space where everyone belongs.
The point is expression, not execution. Some of our most powerful work comes from beginners.
Our Workshops
Every Canvas & Clay workshop combines painting and ceramics together in a single session – engaging all five senses for a full-body, full-mind wellness experience unlike anything a standard art class offers.
Canvas & Clay workshops are not a painting class or a ceramics class — they are both, woven together into a single immersive wellness journey. Participants move between the tactile grounding of working with clay and the expressive freedom of painting, guided at each step by intention-setting, breathwork, and sensory cues.
The full sensory environment — ambient music, aromatherapy, and carefully chosen textures — is designed to move participants out of their heads and into the present moment. This is where real stress release happens.
How a Session Flows
Guided breathwork to settle the nervous system. Aromatherapy diffused. Participants set a personal intention for the session.
Hands-on ceramics: pinching, coiling, and hand-building. No wheel. No experience needed. Just your hands, the earth, and the present moment.
Guided expressive painting with acrylic, watercolor, or mixed media. Themed prompts help participants translate emotion into color and form.
Optional group sharing and guided journaling. Processing what came up, building community connection, and anchoring the experience.
A brief grounding practice. Every participant leaves with their own artwork, a breathwork reference card, and a wellness resource guide.
Our signature community workshop. Painting and ceramics together in one immersive session — with breathwork, aromatherapy, curated music, and guided reflection. Every session has a wellness theme. Every participant creates two pieces and leaves lighter than they came in.
The same full 5-sense immersive experience — painting and ceramics together — scaled for workplace teams, government agencies, and nonprofit groups. Customized wellness themes, group size from 15 to 35, and optional impact reporting for program compliance.
Questions
Absolutely not. Our workshops are designed for people who do NOT consider themselves artists. The point is expression, not execution. Many of our most meaningful sessions are with complete beginners.
Yes. Canvas, paint, brushes, aprons, mixed media materials, and clay are all provided. You bring yourself and comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting creative in.
No. Canvas & Clay workshops are wellness facilitation and expressive arts experiences – not licensed therapy, medical treatment, or mental health services. Our facilitator is a Therapeutic Art Life Coach (Accredited), not a licensed therapist. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988.
Yes. We are a mobile facilitation service. We can come to your office, community center, or event venue. Travel within Los Angeles County is included at no extra charge.