Instructor: Cicely Carew
Monday - Friday
Aug 26 - 30
9am - 12pm
5 sessions
Open Studio: Mon - Thurs , 1 - 4pm

Embark on a week-long, in-person, intuitive mixed media workshop, seamlessly blending formal structure with creative joy. Break free from creative blockages, explore small-scale projects, and embrace intuition through daring risks. Engage in painting and collage with guided prompts, crafting a series of refined small works that reveal the beauty of trusting your instincts. Each session will begin with a meditation to prepare all the senses. Join us for a sophisticated yet delightful journey where the meaning unfolds in each carefully crafted creation.

Cicely Carew wields the formal, material, and sculptural aspects of painting to evoke feelings of radical joy, hope, and liberation. Her works explore the fleeting magic of the present through vibrant color, rebellious mark-making, sweeping gestures, and references to the terrestrial and cosmic worlds. In addition to group exhibitions and commissions by Now + There at the Prudential Center in Boston, she has had solo exhibitions at the Fitchburg Art Museum, the Commons in Provincetown, Northeastern University, and Simmons University. She is the recipient of the 2021 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award, an Artful Seeds Fellowship, and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. Her work is in the collections of Fidelity, Simmons University, Northeastern University, the Cambridge Arts Council, Google, MIT, and the Federal Reserve of Boston. In addition to her studio practice, she is a wellness coach and educator, having served as the 2021–22 artist in residence at Shady Hill School in Cambridge, as well as teaching workshops for the New Art Center in Newton and screen printing for Lesley University. Carew earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from Lesley University’s College of Art + Design. She resides with her son in Cambridge.