Art and Alchemy
A Monthly Maker’s Circle for Creative Souls
We all started as artists.
In kindergarten, we finger-painted sunsets. Built cities from cardboard. Turned paper plates into galaxies. We didn't ask permission. We didn't worry about doing it right. We just played and made.
Then things happened.
A teacher corrected our pink and blue tree. Art class disappeared or got sidelined for "real" subjects. We grew up, became busy with calendars and caregiving. Life got loud. We learned to second-guess our hands.
But here’s what we know:
Creative spirits don’t disappear.
They go underground and wait:
For glitter and gluesticks.
For fingerpaints and permission.
For space, softness
and an invitation to emerge again.
It’s time to revive delight. It’s time to revive play time.
Making is a form of meditation.
One Sunday a month, we meet online for 90 minutes from our own creative nooks and make together.
Some go to yoga. Others walk in the woods. We gather at kitchen tables and in craft-room corners with glitter, glue sticks, and a shared intention to create.
It’s our way of slowing down and reconnecting with our inner child - a lightly guided space where hands lead, minds settle, and making is a kind of meditation.
Each session, we shape art that shapes us. We create simple, seasonal projects that loosen perfection, compost old patterns, and grow creative courage in community.
The real point though isn’t what you make. It’s that you show up for yourself and for the quiet rhythms that creativity helps restore.
Join us. Pajamas welcome. No art degrees needed. No masterpieces expected. Just a desire to make and permission to be messy as you do.
What To Expect When You Join
90 minutes of guided creative play in a brave, soft community
A digital inspiration guide and supply list (under $10 - think markers, glue sticks, paper) to get you thinking about what you might want to create
A community of creative humans centering joy and practicing making as a form of meditation
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 the session (maybe illuminated manuscripts, tarot decks, or wabi-sabi bowls), get inspired by artists and makers the world around and walk through the simple supplies.
Guided Making (55 min)
Hands to paper. Glue sticks, scissors, paint, whatever we’re playing with that day. We guide prompts and pauses, and we also encourage you to follow your creative sparks and color outside of the lines. Creative interpretations welcome.
Witnessing + Sharing (15 min)
We hold up our messy masterpieces in whatever form they’re in, name what surprised 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
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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. -
December Project: Notecards for the Unnoticed
Sun, 12/14 from 4:00-5:30pm EST
Behind every smooth moment lies someone's careful attention. This month we’ll honor the tenders, the rememberers, the smoothers of way and create cards that 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 “Maintence Art” performances, we’ll collage and craft notes of recognition for the unsung labors of love - our own and others. For understanding that being seen in our caring is medicine, and offering that sight to each other. -
January Project: Blueprints for Becoming
Sun, 1/11 from 3:00-4:30pm EST
Bookmaking anyone? Yes please. This month, we’ll look to folk book arts, sketchbooks of explorers, and the notebooks of wild inventors and witches, then stitch together our own creative journals for the new year. For notes and nonsense, for sketches and spells, for keeping track of what calls and what quiets, for dreaming sideways, mapping what matters, and calling in what’s to come. -
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.
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.
And together let’s sustain the care it takes to hold this space.
Let’s Unlearn Scarcity Together
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 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Nope. You just need to be curious. That’s all. We’ll meet you there.
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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.
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You’ll get the recording for 48 hours after the session.
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Each session is whole. You don’t need to start at any particular place or catch up. You’re never late or lost.
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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.
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Our founder, Alice, alongside of other members of The Unlearning Studio, guest artists and creatives.
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