Winter Creative Workspace

A 12-week class (Wednesdays)

Monday Evenings -- Hybrid via Zoom and in-person @ Fremont Abbey

January 5 - March 30 from 6-8pm Pacific Time

with in-person classes at Fremont Abbey on January 19, February 16, and a Final Showing at Fremont Abbey on March 23

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Tuesday Evenings -- Online via Zoom

January 6 - March 24 from 6-8pm Pacific Time

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Wednesday Afternoons -- Online via Zoom

January 7 - March 25 from 12-2pm Pacific Time

+ combined in-person final showing at Fremont Abbey on March 23!

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Online Wednesday Afternoons

January 7 - March 25

12-2pm Pacific Time via Zoom

+ an in-person final showing at Fremont Abbey on March 23

Part art-making class, part creative project accountability group, Creative Workspace is for artists and wannabe artists of all disciplines. This is not a technique class. Nope. Technique is useful, but it's not the thing that lights my fire. Ideas are what really get me going.

Through weekly homework assignments and the occasional in-class exercise, we explore a million different ways to spark imagination, and we dig into questions like, “What do I want to say with my art?” “What do I want to be putting into the world?” and “How can I use art to respond to what's going on around me or process what I'm experiencing?”

Sound heavy? Yeah, sometimes it is. We also do a lot of laughing, writing, wondering, moving, discovering, breathing, drawing, reading, watching, listening, and a little crying. Artists whose work we've looked at for inspiration in past sessions include Toni Morrison, Lynda Barry, Amy Sherald, Jad Abumrad, Yoko Ono, Miranda July, Hannah Gadsby, and Beyoncé.

We'll form an engaged and supportive community through which to nurture and stretch each other in our artmaking endeavors, helping each other to work past our internal blocks to making and move toward creating richer, more complex work. In the first half of the 12-week session, we'll make as many different things as possible, without being too precious about it. The goal in the first 6 weeks is just to be productive, and to let our internal editors take a rest. In the second half, we get to start refining our work. For the second half of the quarter, each person will choose one project or piece to focus on and develop for our final showing on March 23.

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$150-$450 - Registration is sliding scale to support equitable access.

By registering for this class, you're making a commitment to yourself and to the other participants! We get to build relationship and trust as a group so that we can support each other through this process. For these reasons, attendance is important! If you know that you would need to miss more than 2 class meetings, we're going to ask you to wait until this is offered again. We need to be able to be there for each other and for ourselves.

Note: Your email will be shared with Jenna the event curator for follow-up purposes only and will not be sold. You may also be added to the Abbey Arts email list which has an easy single click opt-out option.

Interested, but not sure? There's a Preview class on December 29. This class will be held online but will serve as a preview for the online and in-person classes!

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:

Hi! I'm Jenna Bean Veatch. I'm a multi-disciplinary performing artist and queer single-mama-by-choice who has been accused of creating “pure, unadulterated, heart-stopping whimsy.” (Thanks, Bret Fetzer.)

I've made dance-theater shows, stop-action animation, music, written work, prompts, pants, community gatherings, and one gorgeous little human. I'm also the creator and host of The Not-Creepy Gathering for People Who Want to Fall In Love, a participatory event designed to facilitate connection and spread love.

My work has been supported by Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, and the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation. I hold an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts & Creative Inquiry from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Wanna know more? Check out www.jbeanveatch.com.

ABBEY ARTS EVENT INFO:

Fremont Abbey is ADA accessible on either level.
For most events we have a mix of padded chairs and standing room.
Seating is not guaranteed or reserved unless noted.
To respect the performing artists and your fellow attendees, please refrain from talking during the performances
Please limit photos during the show so as to not distract other attendees from the experience.
Phone and video may be permitted for some shows, from the standing area only please.
No professional cameras or cameras with shutters allowed in the venue
We are an all ages venue. Kids 10 & under are free at Abbey Arts concerts & arts events unless noted.
Equity & Inclusion - Entering the venue indicates agreement to adhere to the Abbey Respect Policy. www.fremontabbey.org/respect
Service animals as defined by the ADA are allowed. Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities.