This two part virtual workshop led by neighbor and artist, Cinder Hypki, is designed to help you do two important things:

~ To hold in your mind and heart a person you love and for whom you are grateful, and to let your relationship with them and your memories of them guide you into making a beautiful small art piece — a keepsake — for them to have.  If they are no longer residing on the planet, the keepsake can be gifted to others who love them or it can be kept by you. 

~ To relax into your creative self, to focus in on beauty or humor or joy; on memory, and relationships that sustain you — a powerful antidote for stress and anxiety.

This experience combines art and ritual, as I guide participants through a series of activities to choose and share people in our lives for whom we’re grateful (our first workshop). This could be an elder shut in or a grand child, a friend, family member or spouse.  We will honor and celebrate them by creating keepsakes for them (our second workshop):  adorning messages of hope and appreciation, making collages or communiques in the form of letters or small booklets or other creations that speak to their importance in your life, and are meant to be snail mailed to them.  We will focus on writing and a variety of simple visual art techniques for communicating, embellishing and conveying our messages and envelopes in this poignant time of COVID-19. During our third workshop, we’ll share what we’ve created with the group, lending further inspiration for more artmaking!  Sumptuous papers, colors, pens and other fun supplies can be combined with participants’ special photos, quotes, memories, etc.  Together we’ll celebrate and hone the fine art of Gratitude.

More about Cinder: Cinder’s FaceBook page

To Register, e-mail us at hello@whatsnextbaltimore.org and we’ll send you the Zoom link. (or see below)

Parts 1 will now be Sunday, March 7th at 2 pm and part 2 will be Sunday, March March 21 at 2 pm.