What's New!

Creating Community Through Study Groups - an article by Annie Rousseau
"I have just finished facilitating my second three-month Study Group...". Read more...

Changing Times: A Note About Painting in Moloka’i | March 7 - 17, 2009
These are challenging times for retreat centers and workshop facilitators. There is great uncertainty about the future, and the benefits of investing in something so intangible as a painting workshop may not be obvious. Yet opening the Spirit through the medium of art is essential for sustaining balance and bringing possibility to a world facing radical change. Read On...

New Location |Monroe Center for the Arts | Hoboken. NJ | January 23 -25, 2009
This is our first-ever workshop in New Jersey. We're excited to be able to offer The Painting Experience at the wonderful Monroe Center for the Arts. Learn More...

Returning to the Orlando Area | Winter Park, FL | February 6 - 8, 2009
We're excited to be returning to Florida after a hiatus of two years. Learn More...

CE Credits for Nurses (as well as MFT/LCSW)
We are pleased to announce we have received our certificate from the Board of Registered Nursing stating that we are a Continuing Education Provider. Licensed California nurses, you will be able to receive credit for attending any of our workshops. And for years we've offered CEU credits for therapists and social workers. Please request your CE Credits when registering.

The Lindy Lou Scholarship Fund for Artists and Writers
We are happy to announce that we have received another year of funding for the Lindy Lou Scholarship Fund. These scholarships are funded by a participant for whom The Painting Experience was an important tool in unlocking her own potential as an artist and as a person dedicated to creative living. Her generous grant allows others in the process of forging their own artistic identity to participate at a greatly reduced rate.
Please see the application form.

Poems and Quotes
We've posted a new page of poems and quotes gathered over the years. There's plenty more to come, and please feel free to send us some you feel are relevant. Read more...

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
– Mary Oliver

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Prospective Immigrants Please Note

Either you will go
through this door
or you will not go through

If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name

Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen

If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily
to maintain your attitudes
to hold your positions
to die bravely

But much will blind you
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?

The door itself
makes no promises
it is only a door

-Adrienne Rich