Art and Alchemy

A Lightly Guided VIRTUAL Maker’s Circle for Creative Souls

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Making is a form of meditation.

Some go to yoga. Others walk in the woods. We gather virtually once a month from our own creative nooks to slow down, chat, and make together.

Pajamas welcome. No art degrees needed. No masterpieces expected. Just a chance to reconnect and be in community with other creative souls without pressure to perform or produce.

What to Expect

One Sunday a month, we meet online for 90 minutes to make and chat together.

Each session includes a lightly guided project that invites reflection, play, and creative courage. Follow our prompt or bring one of your own that’s been calling for your attention. Both are welcome.

We open with a shared intention and some artistic inspiration, then settle into our own rhythms. Quiet making, gentle and joyful conversation, optional project sharing at the end.

This is a creative nook. We hold our space with care, not critique, so come as you are and we’ll meet you there.

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Why This Matters

Gathering in circles to connect and create is a practice as old as time - one too many of us have lost touch with in this fast paced, modern world.

Across time and cultures, women have gathered to make quilts, clothing, food, medicine, and more. These gatherings have never been just about the task; they’ve also been practices of connection, support, and soft power - ways of sense-making the world and weaving ourselves into it.

Art & Alchemy carries this lineage forward.

Here, gathering in circles to create is fun and nourishing - and also a way of unlearning urgency, undoing separation, and returning to a deeper rhythm in ourselves and with one another.

Each month, we shape art that shapes us. We create small, beautiful things that loosen perfection, compost old patterns, and spark joy.

But the real point isn’t what we make: it’s that we show up and make space for ourselves and each other in a world that conditions us away from this.

And in doing so, we begin to dream aloud a different way of being - one stitched slowly, side by side.

This Space Is For You If…

  • You crave dedicated time to make - yet sometimes struggle to protect it.

  • You’re looking for a ritual of return - a simple way to care for your creative self.

  • You want gentle companionship and conversation while you create, without the pressure of a class or critique.

  • You’re excited about light structure and guidance, slow magic and giving yourself permission to color outside the lines.

  • “I love having time set aside for me to do something creative. It’s a little gift to myself, away from my responsibilities to my kids. For 90 precious minutes, it just me in my room making. It really is a form of meditation!"

    Leigh

  • “Finally, a creative space that feels like permission instead of pressure.”

    Maribel

  • “I’m realizing art for me is like yoga is for others - something that calms my mind, connects me to myself, something I need to do regularly with others."

    LaNiesha

  • "I've been a professional artist for 20 years, but somewhere along the way, making became performing. Thank you for bringing me back to my beginning — to the joy of glue sticks and cutting up paper. No galleries. No pressure. Just presence. It's the most honest art I've made in decades."

    Theresa

  • "As a working mom of two, I thought I didn't have time for creativity. But I really craved it so I thought if someone else was holding space, maybe I could do it. Spending time with you two made me realize I needed permission to play."

    Radha

  • "I spend so much time creating for others that sometimes it's hard to create just for myself. I love having a little bit of time set aside to work on my own projects. It fills me up."

    Rachel

The Rhythm of Our Circle

Each gathering is 90 minutes - enough time to settle in, make, and leave nourished.
You can stay longer if you’d like…we often do.

Arrival (10 min)
We breathe, land, and open the circle. A poem, a question, or a spark of inspiration to set the tone.

Inspiration + Supply Peek (10 min)
We share the creative lineage behind our lightly guided project (maybe illuminated manuscripts, tarot decks, or wabi-sabi bowls), get inspired by artists and makers the world around and walk through some simple supplies.

Making & Conversation (55 min)
Hands to paper and paint. We offer light structure to get you started and keep you flowing. Detours and interpretations are always welcome. As we make, conversation flows —unforced, unhurried, with a few gentle prompts to spark connection along the way.

Witnessing + Sharing (15 min)
We share our emerging masterpieces in whatever form they’re in, name what surprised and delighted us, and witness each other without judgment.

Closing (5 min)
A line of gratitude, a hope for our month, a reminder that the creative spirit follows us back into our kitchens and calendars.

A Season of Circles

  • November Project: Junk Drawer Art

    Sun, 11/9 from 2:00-3:30pm EST

    Before we buy another supply, let's see what we already have. We'll wander through our homes like treasure hunters - gathering bottle caps, cardboard, fabric scraps, junk mail, things that have been waiting to be seen. Drawing from assemblage artists, the resourcefulness of folk traditions, and the magic of making-do, we'll transform the mundane into something beautiful that matters. For learning to see your life as material and remembering that creativity starts with noticing, not shopping.

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  • December Project: Notecards for the Unnoticed

    Sun, 12/7 from 4:00-5:30pm EST

    Behind every smooth moment lies someone's careful attention. This month our guided project honor the tenders, the rememberers, the smoothers of way and invites us to acknowledge the thousand small kindnesses that make life work. Inspired by the mail art movement, the Japanese tradition of omiyage, Sophie Calle’s photography of daily gesture, Mierle Laderman Ukeles “Maintenance Art” performances, we’ll collage cards and take a few breaths to recognize the unsung labors of love around us. For understanding that attending to the small details is a form of care that deserves to be witnessed.

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  • January Project: Blueprints for Becoming

    Sun, 1/11 from 3:00-4:30pm EST

    What if your new year began with a book you made with your own hands? Not resolutions. Not rigid plans. But a handmade journal - part compass, part confidant - for holding what you're noticing, what you're calling in, and what wants to emerge in the year ahead. We’ll draw inspiration from folk book arts, the field notebooks of explorers, the grimoires of kitchen witches, and the wild scribbles of inventors who thought sideways and stitch together our own “books for becoming” - for notes and nonsense, sketches and spells, for tracking what calls and what quiets, for mapping what matters and dreaming in directions you haven't tried yet.

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  • February Project: Constellation Keepers

    Sun, 2/22 from 3:00-4:30pm EST

    Every darkness holds the possibility of light. This month we’ll create home-made lanterns that illuminate the shadows. We'll draw inspiration from Polynesian wayfinding, the work of James Turrell's light installations, Mexican papel picado traditions, and the Japanese art of shadow play. Together we'll craft vessels that hold both darkness and light, and invite ourselves to remember that sometimes creation means making space for brilliance to shine through. For remembering that we are our own light-keepers, and that even the smallest pinhole of light can become a constellation by which we navigate.

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All of our Art & Alchemy sessions are pay what feels aligned because we believe that creative spaces should be accessible to everyone. We trust that when met with honest invitations, generosity finds its rhythm.

So come as you are. Give as you're able.

A portion of what we gather goes back out into the world — each month, we vote together on a cause or organization to support. This way, your contribution sustains not only the care it takes to hold this space, but also the wider web of healing and justice we're all part of.

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Hi, we’re Alice & Megan…

Your circle hosts and fellow makers.

Making is our meditation. It’s how we find our way back to presence when the world gets loud. How we soften the grip of our inner critics. How we stretch our imaginations and stay connected to wonder. How we turn Sunday afternoons into something sacred.

We believe creativity is a life-force that lives in each of us even if it’s gone quiet for a while. We’re here to hold a space where you can gently and joyfully honor and reconnect with your inner creative. Come explore, play, and get a little messy with us.

Bring your too-muchness and not-enoughness. Your hands, heart and that half-baked idea that floated through your mind last Tuesday. We welcome it all.

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 Frequently Asked Questions

  • Nope.  You just need to be curious. That’s all. We’ll meet you there.

  • We’ll send you a simple supply and prep list when you register for a session. Everything is easy to find, under $10, and often things you already have at home—think markers, scissors, glue sticks, cardstock. We don’t mail supplies; we keep it simple so your kitchen table can become your studio.

  • You’ll get the recording for 48 hours after the session.

  • Each session is whole. You don’t need to start at any particular place or catch up. You’re never late or lost.

  • Not even close. This is soul composting and creative seeding. Grief alchemy. Joy medicine. Play as prayer. Glitter, glue, and grace all rolled into one. Magic in the making.

  • Our founder, Alice, alongside of other members of The Unlearning Studio, guest artists and creatives.

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