You might ask yourself how making a collage can be intuitive and organized at the same time. Artist Jeannette Brossart uses collage as a creative jumpstart for making other art and is always surprised and inspired by the results. Since she doesn’t like to draw and paint, she keeps a collage journal. Her “anything goes” […]

RCWMS is honored to invite you to a reading with Melanie Morrison from her new book, Letters from Old Screamer Mountain. The reading is sponsored by RCWMS and EVERYbody Reads, Books and Stuff, an independent bookstore in Melanie's hometown of Lansing, Michigan. In 1939, when Melanie Morrison’s mother, Eleanor, was eighteen, she spent a winter […]

In this two-hour workshop, participants with some familiarity with the Enneagram are invited to bring their questions about the Enneagram along with an openness and  desire to grow. Our time together begins with a period of questions and comments related to the Enneagram System. Participants are invited to bring questions that are emerging from their […]

Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we […]

Please join us for a reading with Liddy Grantland from her new book, Flesh and Bones: Learning to Love This Body. Grantland lives with a body that hurts all the time. During her final year as an undergraduate, she decided to write about chronic pain for her school newspaper. Her words, collected in this volume, […]

Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we […]

Maybe you haven’t done any art since grade school. Maybe you’re accomplished in one medium, but would like to learn another. Maybe you’ve started a painting but don’t know how to finish it. Maybe you’ve said to yourself-why is this brush shaped like this? Maybe you just want to hang out with other people doing art. Sue can demonstrate […]

This retreat is for women who have already taken Sue’s “Finding Your Medium” or “Art, Sea, and Sue” workshop. It takes place in a lovely cottage on Emerald Isle, NC. Leader: Sue Sneddon has been a full-time painter since 1984. Much of her work has concentrated on the ocean, especially the NC coast, where she now […]