Workshops
Cloud Collective Residency offers a variety of workshops throughout the year. The Artist’s Way Workshop and its graduating follow-ups, The Path and The Elements of Design, our bi-annual staples, are courses designed to fertilize your creative potential and unlock new levels of creative freedom. We also offer workshops centered around the therapeutic benefits of art, medium-specific courses, as well as workshops specific to the seasons and holidays.
Artist’s Way Workshop
There is untapped brilliance inside you: what is it nudging you to do?
This is your opportunity to dive deep into your creative potential. Using Julia Cameron’s best-selling book The Artist’s Way as a guide, our course is designed to help you tap into your artist within and get you building new life-affirming habits along the way. While studying, writing, discussing, and making art together, you and and your fellow participants will forge a supportive community as you commit to strengthening your connection to your creative self.
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Workshops are hosted in person at the Cloud Collective Residency in Asheville.
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The Artist’s Way Workshop is a 13-session course that occurs bi-annually. Check out our calendar for upcoming dates.
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No experience required. For seasoned artist’s and beginners alike. Students will require a copy of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, a note- or sketch-book, a favorite writing utensil, (and something intangible here?)
“Do it. It’s a soul-shift.”
—Buffy, Artist’s Way Workshop participant
The Path
A multimedia exploration of creativity, bravery, and their life-enhancing capabilities or, ancient and modern advice on how to live your best life.
Finished The Artist’s Way and looking for more? Our follow-up course, The Path, picks up where the Artist’s Way Workshop left off: now that you’ve reconnected with your inner artistic potential, let’s flex it a little! You’ll be using familiar tools from your time with The Artist’s Way to explore new territory, as well as immersing yourself into a variety of new texts. And, like the Artist’s Way Workshop, you’ll be joined by your cohort of fellow explorers, and together you’ll create new maps of creative possibility.
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Workshops are hosted in person at the Cloud Collective Residency in Asheville.
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The Path is hosted one evening a week from 6–9 PM for 13 weeks. The course occurs bi-annually. Check out our calendar for upcoming dates.
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The Path is open to anyone who has completed Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, either with our Artist’s Way Workshop or otherwise. Students will require a notebook and a favorite writing utensil.
“What a wonderful use of time—to be inspired by other artists as well as a light I found inside myself.” —Julia, collage workshop participant
Elements of Design
Now that you’ve finished the Artist’s Way and have learned to quiet the critic, listen to your intuition, and actively avoid perfection, are you ready to dive into some art making?! Wanting to learn more skills and gain confidence making something that “looks good”? In fact, what does it even mean, for something you make to “look good”? What are some tricks for arranging a “pleasing composition”, and how can you apply simple rules to help your art “look right” when it’s hanging on the wall?
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Workshops are hosted in person at the Cloud Collective Residency in Asheville.
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Elements of Design is hosted one evening per week from 6–9 PM for 8 weeks. The course occurs bi-annually.
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Elements of Design is open to anyone who has completed Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, either with our Artist’s Way Workshop or otherwise. Students will require a notebook and a favorite writing utensil.
“It helped me see my art in a new, more positive light, and it truly changed how I felt about it.” —Shanti, a The Path participant
Upcoming Workshops & Community Events
