The Artist’s Way - Reading Group

from $250.00

✨✨Facilitated by guest teacher: Finn Miller assisted by Hillary O’Dell✨✨

It’s a new year, so you know what that means: Time to start reading The Artist’s Way again… But plot twist: this is the year you’ll actually finish it!

In this guided reading group of Julia Cameron’s classic book The Artist’s Way, we will confront the challenges of this often abandoned spiritual path to creative recovery together. We’ll embrace vulnerability, hold each other accountable, celebrate our victories, and ultimately learn to freely follow our artistic impulses and live a creative life without fear

This course is ideal for long-practicing artists looking to overcome blocks or revive a “stale” practice, but the group is for anyone who has ever been curious about pursuing The Artist’s Way, whether you consider yourself an artist yet or not. I promise that by the end, you WILL!

On the first day we meet IRL, we will set ourselves up with the “basic tools” for artistic unblocking. Each successive week will consist of a chapter discussion followed by a generative, crafty activity designed to prompt those creative juices to flow in all kinds of unexpected ways. We are open to the class flowing in different directions depending on the interests of the group, including the potential for field trips, feedback sessions, and maybe even custom hand made merch!

A week before we meet in person, we will start an optional group chat for extra support and resource-sharing between sessions and continue two weeks after our sessions. We will also host monthly virtual co-working/accountability sessions, and you will be given 3 hours of Open Studio time at Home Ec NYC to work on and make progress on your projects!

🗓️ IRL Sessions: Sundays 11:00am-1:00pm Jan 25th - April 19th (we will be off April 12th)

This book is designed to be worked through over the course of twelve weeks, so that’s the path we plan to follow. We recognize that life is busy and that you may need to miss a session or two. That’s why we’ve added extras like co-working, Open Studio time, and a group chat! You will also receive an email recap and light, low-stakes “homework” if you need to be absent.

[Can’t make this one?! Click here to join the waitlist!]

We will cover things like:

📕The entirety of Julia Cameron’sThe Artist’s Way.
🪐Uncovering and confronting sources of fear which hold us back from our creative potential. 
🖼Work with different artist mediums is a lo stakes form of play
🦋Experimenting with new approaches to creativity and finding out what excites us. 
✨Developing daily practices to maintain a creative life and move us forward.

Prerequisite:

🤸‍♀️ This class is for ANYONE who is curious about living a more creatively fulfilled life. Teachers, accountants, mailmen, mid-career interdisciplinary practicing artists, dog-walkers, waiters, (nice) finance bros, librarians, cartoonists, opera singers, private eyes, matchmakers, Guggenheim fellows… We will discover or refresh your creative practice together. No matter who you are or where you’re coming from, all are welcome and sure to benefit from mutual exchange.

👉Note: This class is for people 18+.

What is Included:

🗣 12 weeks of 2 hour IRL guided discussion
🎨 Materials for generative arts and crafts activities for each week  
👯‍♀️ 3 monthly co-working/accountability Zoom sessions
🌆 3 hours of open studio time at Home Ec NYC to be used however you'd like over the corse of our time together.  
✅ Prompts for written reflection and intention-setting
👯‍♀️ 16 week group chat (starting 1 week before, inculding off week and ending 2 weeks after)
🎉 Celebration & presentation at the end!

What do you need to bring?

📕Your own copy of Julia Cameron’sThe Artist’s Way.This could be a new phycial book, a copy from the library or an audio version - whatever is best for you.
📓2 journals (one dedicated for morning pages, one for everything else) It doesn’t matter the size, it could even be a notebook that’s been collecting dust with 10% of the pages full.
🖊Something to write with
🤔A sense of curiosity and community.

Where will we meet?

📍IRL sessions will be at Home Ec NYC
44-02 23rd st #315
Long Island City, NY
11101
📍Virtual Sessions will be on Zoom

Let’s talk pricing:

We’re using the Green Bottle Method (see photo below) to make this workshop accessible to a range of financial situations. Each tier has a few designated spots. If you’re uncertain about where you fit or would benefit from a payment plan, we’re happy to help—email us at info@homeecnyc.com.

Price break down for all 16 weeks
Tier Three: $450/ ~$37/week
Tier Two: $350/ ~$22/week
Tier One: $250/ ~$15/week

Paying with a credit card? Cool, get those points, girl! You can continue checking out here.

Planning to pay with your debit card? Want to help your girl (me, Hillary) out? Instead of checking out here, head straight to [Venmo] , send your payment, along with the name of the workshop & your email address in the comments. This helps me avoid transaction fees 😉.

⭐️By registering you are agreeing to our [cancellation & late, materials & Liability Policy, Terms & Conditions.]

Pricing:

✨✨Facilitated by guest teacher: Finn Miller assisted by Hillary O’Dell✨✨

It’s a new year, so you know what that means: Time to start reading The Artist’s Way again… But plot twist: this is the year you’ll actually finish it!

In this guided reading group of Julia Cameron’s classic book The Artist’s Way, we will confront the challenges of this often abandoned spiritual path to creative recovery together. We’ll embrace vulnerability, hold each other accountable, celebrate our victories, and ultimately learn to freely follow our artistic impulses and live a creative life without fear

This course is ideal for long-practicing artists looking to overcome blocks or revive a “stale” practice, but the group is for anyone who has ever been curious about pursuing The Artist’s Way, whether you consider yourself an artist yet or not. I promise that by the end, you WILL!

On the first day we meet IRL, we will set ourselves up with the “basic tools” for artistic unblocking. Each successive week will consist of a chapter discussion followed by a generative, crafty activity designed to prompt those creative juices to flow in all kinds of unexpected ways. We are open to the class flowing in different directions depending on the interests of the group, including the potential for field trips, feedback sessions, and maybe even custom hand made merch!

A week before we meet in person, we will start an optional group chat for extra support and resource-sharing between sessions and continue two weeks after our sessions. We will also host monthly virtual co-working/accountability sessions, and you will be given 3 hours of Open Studio time at Home Ec NYC to work on and make progress on your projects!

🗓️ IRL Sessions: Sundays 11:00am-1:00pm Jan 25th - April 19th (we will be off April 12th)

This book is designed to be worked through over the course of twelve weeks, so that’s the path we plan to follow. We recognize that life is busy and that you may need to miss a session or two. That’s why we’ve added extras like co-working, Open Studio time, and a group chat! You will also receive an email recap and light, low-stakes “homework” if you need to be absent.

[Can’t make this one?! Click here to join the waitlist!]

We will cover things like:

📕The entirety of Julia Cameron’sThe Artist’s Way.
🪐Uncovering and confronting sources of fear which hold us back from our creative potential. 
🖼Work with different artist mediums is a lo stakes form of play
🦋Experimenting with new approaches to creativity and finding out what excites us. 
✨Developing daily practices to maintain a creative life and move us forward.

Prerequisite:

🤸‍♀️ This class is for ANYONE who is curious about living a more creatively fulfilled life. Teachers, accountants, mailmen, mid-career interdisciplinary practicing artists, dog-walkers, waiters, (nice) finance bros, librarians, cartoonists, opera singers, private eyes, matchmakers, Guggenheim fellows… We will discover or refresh your creative practice together. No matter who you are or where you’re coming from, all are welcome and sure to benefit from mutual exchange.

👉Note: This class is for people 18+.

What is Included:

🗣 12 weeks of 2 hour IRL guided discussion
🎨 Materials for generative arts and crafts activities for each week  
👯‍♀️ 3 monthly co-working/accountability Zoom sessions
🌆 3 hours of open studio time at Home Ec NYC to be used however you'd like over the corse of our time together.  
✅ Prompts for written reflection and intention-setting
👯‍♀️ 16 week group chat (starting 1 week before, inculding off week and ending 2 weeks after)
🎉 Celebration & presentation at the end!

What do you need to bring?

📕Your own copy of Julia Cameron’sThe Artist’s Way.This could be a new phycial book, a copy from the library or an audio version - whatever is best for you.
📓2 journals (one dedicated for morning pages, one for everything else) It doesn’t matter the size, it could even be a notebook that’s been collecting dust with 10% of the pages full.
🖊Something to write with
🤔A sense of curiosity and community.

Where will we meet?

📍IRL sessions will be at Home Ec NYC
44-02 23rd st #315
Long Island City, NY
11101
📍Virtual Sessions will be on Zoom

Let’s talk pricing:

We’re using the Green Bottle Method (see photo below) to make this workshop accessible to a range of financial situations. Each tier has a few designated spots. If you’re uncertain about where you fit or would benefit from a payment plan, we’re happy to help—email us at info@homeecnyc.com.

Price break down for all 16 weeks
Tier Three: $450/ ~$37/week
Tier Two: $350/ ~$22/week
Tier One: $250/ ~$15/week

Paying with a credit card? Cool, get those points, girl! You can continue checking out here.

Planning to pay with your debit card? Want to help your girl (me, Hillary) out? Instead of checking out here, head straight to [Venmo] , send your payment, along with the name of the workshop & your email address in the comments. This helps me avoid transaction fees 😉.

⭐️By registering you are agreeing to our [cancellation & late, materials & Liability Policy, Terms & Conditions.]

Finn Miller

is an artist and educator based in Queens. Currently, she sustains her artistic practice working as an English professor at LaGuardia Community College.

Finn has taken the 12-step spiritual path to higher creativity twice now, so she knows that it works! The first time she completed it, she became a painter. The second time, she learned to sing. Both times, she became more confident, capable, and inspired by the world around her. What will she learn on the third go round? What will we discover together? 

You can find samples of her work and writing at www.finnmiller.net, or reach out with any questions or curiosities via email at finleymiller98@gmail.com.

This image and framework was originally created by Alexis J. Cunningfolk | www.wortsandcunning.comwith additions from Britt Hawthorne | www.embracingequity.org