the beautiful THINGS in between
with DEBORAH STEIN
workshop details
NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Deborah will guide and inspire us to tease out new ideas and experiences with a new theme each day: 1. Breathe 2. Gather 3. Repair. We’ll work with our hands and all of our senses, letting ourselves imagine and connect to our creative voices and the landscapes both inner and outer, growing and cultivating our work like flowers. This retreat is all about caring for our creativity, connecting to our imaginations, and the exploration of what becomes possible in the motions of art-making. With pause, breath and intention, we’ll let color run away with water, see a flower become a whole world, watch paper transform into magic, and discover how a stitch can make something old new again. We’ll make visual poetry through the lens of our singular artistic processes and with all the hope that comes with letting go, we’ll allow questions and wonderings to become beautiful breathing things.
We'll spend this intimate weekend at the idyllic private At Hand Studio house and gardens belonging to artist and art educator Fran Meneley, where we’ll create art and cultivate a beautiful creative community of brilliant, talented thinkers and makers. We’ll nourish ourselves with delicious, local healthy lunches and snacks. We’ll forge new found connections with one another through art and story, laughter and conversation, and through Deborah’s creative encouragement that is sure to be carried well beyond the three days we share together. We invite you into the transformative possibilities of exploring The Beautiful Things In Between—and an unforgettable experience of making space for ourselves and our stories in the world and in all the spaces in between.
DEBORAH STEIN
deborahjstein.com
@deborah.j.stein
I’m a picture maker and writer living between New York City and a small mountain village in Northern New Mexico with my husband and our little dog Pablo.
At the moment and what feels like always, I am working on writing and making art and books for humans of all ages that express variable ways of seeing the world and our parts in it. You can see where my art meets my writing on my substack, Sometimes a Ghost.
In 2023, I was a fiction fellow working with Sabrina Orah Mark at the Under The Volcano residency in Tepoztlan, Mexico in January and in May I was in residency painting and writing at The Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, MA. My artwork The Sea was chosen for Khôra Magazine’s cover and I was the featured artist in the November 2023 Issue. Last Spring my piece Ways of Dreaming My Way Home was chosen for the Spring 2023 edition of the Literary Journal Rowayat. My second solo show at the LDBA Gallery on Canyon Road is coming to Santa Fe in February 2024.
I’ve been a writer/contributor for Poet/Journalist Michael Judge’s First Person with Letters From Ruthie in 2022 and my art was part of a group exhibition for Tamika Rivera’s Here Projects in the 2019 and 2018 Next Level design exhibition in New York City.
When I’m not drawing or painting I’m writing except for when I am teaching creative residencies and art and visual narrative workshops on and off-line in my rogue art school called The StoryCamp Disco. I love reading, looking at art, hiding in bookshops, planting gardens, and cooking and making pigments with what I grow and find. I also like: hiking up hills and walking along rivers, road trips, movies, and well-made documentaries, and to joke and laugh and draw in the car, and to be with folks and animals I love.
