Tuesday Perception Workshop
2022-12-20 10:00 - 14:00, 2022-12-27 10:00 - 14:00, 2023-01-03 10:00 - 14:00, 2023-01-10 10:00 - 14:00, 2023-01-17 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Due to popular demand and limited space we are adding an additional weekly Perception Workshop
Please register in advance if you can.

One of the core principles Ann O’Hanlon stressed was learning how to see.
For over 35 years Saturdays were a time to put that into practice. To experiment and discover.
The morning starts with a simple exercise or prompt that informs the day.
$25 for non-members and $20 for members. Materials provided or bring your own.
Attendees must be fully vaccinated and masks are required indoors
Beginners Expected!
Various Facilitators will lead organized by Jackie La Lanne.

Creative Writing w/ ABBY WASSERMAN
2022-12-22 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-12-29 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-01-05 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-01-12 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-01-19 10:00 - 12:00
This weekly group features freewriting (to loosen the Muse) with sustained and supportive group critiques of works in progress.
The facilitator is a journalist, author, and editor who has been leading OHCA writing groups for 15 years.
This ongoing Thursday workshop will be held in person in the upper Loft.
Contact Abby to be included:
abby.wasserman@gmail.com
$156, $125 OH member for 6 sessions
Single session drop-in: $27
Visit Abby Wasserman’s Website »

Creative Writing w/ Abby Wasserman$27.00 – $156.00Price range: $27.00 through $156.00

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SKU: creative-writing-abby

Category: Literary

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Non-member, OHCA Member

# of Sessions
6 sessions, Single session drop-in

Art of World Cultures for Kids Ages 9 to 10 w/ ZOE HARRIS
2022-12-22 15:30 - 16:30, 2022-12-29 15:30 - 16:30, 2023-01-05 15:30 - 16:30, 2023-01-12 15:30 - 16:30, 2023-01-19 15:30 - 16:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
In these fun and unique classes, children will learn about different creative traditions from cultures around the world.
For children ages 9-10
Sessions will incorporate recycled materials, found and natural objects, paint, special papers, ink, and more!
RSVP the Friday prior to each session.
NEW: For the safety of all, children must be fully vaccinated against COVID to participate.
NEW Winter Series start January 5, 2023

1 session
6 sessions
12 sessions

$23, $19 OHCA Family* members
$120, $96 Family members
$200, $160 Family members

*Family membership is $160/year for a couple and two children and includes lots of benefits like discounts on workshops – call 415-388-4331 today to join or enroll online!
Zoe Harris has been teaching art and culture in Marin and the Bay Area for over thirty years. She has worked in both public and private elementary and middle schools. In addition, she has also taught in museums, libraries and community centers. Some of the Marin institutions she has worked in include Bay Area Discovery Museum, Global Education of Marin, Marin County Office of Education; Willowcreek, Gallinas, Coleman, Olive, Lagunitas, Bacich, and Bahia Vista Schools, Ross Valley Summer School, Canal Ministry and Pickleweed Community Center Kids Club.

Please enter CHILD FULL NAME & AGE when you Checkout, in the “Additional Information” section.

ART CENTER IS CLOSED
2022-12-23 00:00 - 2022-12-24 23:30

Canceled: Saturday Perception Workshop
2022-12-24 10:00 - 14:00
No Workshop DEC 24 – Happy Holidays!
Until further notice. Mask required indoors.
One of the core principles Ann O’Hanlon stressed was learning how to see.
For over 35 years Saturdays were a time to put that into practice. To experiment and discover.
Thank you to Ann Fricker and Noni Garner for organizing the rerun to the LOFT Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm.
The morning starts with a simple exercise or prompt that informs the day.
$25 for non-members and $20 for members.. Materials provided or bring your own.
Attendees must be fully vaccinated and Masks required indoors
Beginners Expected!
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LOVING THE SATURDAY WORKSHOP
The long-running Visual Perception Workshop is at the heart of O’Hanlon Center. Recently we asked workshop participants for their thoughts.
I love doing art with friends…and then sharing it!
I love that it is a drop-in class and
I don’t have to sign up ahead of time.
I like that I don’t have to know how to do art…
It’s about our own creativity.
It is so much fun.
I love the creative atmosphere. It breeds excitement and enjoyment of the process.
I like the mix of people and their art.
It is free and fun.
I like that I can get into the flow of art and forget the stressful world.
I look forward to stepping into another time and place. It is a magical experience to visit this special piece of land at the foot of Mt Tam.
Being with people who care about art and artists is something I find worthwhile. I feel lucky to have discovered this class. It informs me well beyond 4 hours on Saturday.
This Saturday workshop serves as a tool to open up all of my senses and I come alive.
The setting is gorgeous and serene.
I love Saturday class. I wouldn’t think of missing it. I come every Saturday, and have for years and years.

View more visual arts programs

Writing from the Heart on Zoom w/ Dr. PELLER MARION
2022-12-28 13:30 - 15:30, 2023-01-04 13:30 - 15:30
An adventurous mix of writing
and some art too
This FREE drop-in and on-going Zoom group requires no experience. All you need to bring is a notebook and a pen. Peller will bring the instruction, inspiration, safe space, writing and art prompts.

Find your writing voice.
Dive into your creativity.
Deepen your writing practice.
Share your stories, memories, and inspirations.
Get steady positive affirmation for your work in a community of passionate writers.

First and and fourth Wednesdays each month
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Contact facilitator Peller Marion via email to get the zoom link
pellermarion@gmail.com
Donations accepted to O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
616 Throckmorton Avenue• Mill Valley• Ca.• 94941

Facilitated by Dr. Peller Marion, author of five books and exhibiting artist and psychologist.
For more workshops led by Peller: go to O’Hanlon Center for the Arts (www.ohanloncenter.org) or www.pellermarion.com
email facilitator with questions:pellermarion@gmail.com

Canceled: Saturday Perception Workshop
2022-12-31 10:00 - 14:00
No workshop this date – Happy New Year!
One of the core principles Ann O’Hanlon stressed was learning how to see.
For over 35 years Saturdays were a time to put that into practice. To experiment and discover.
Thank you to Ann Fricker and Noni Garner for organizing the rerun to the LOFT Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm.
The morning starts with a simple exercise or prompt that informs the day.
$25 for non-members and $20 for members.. Materials provided or bring your own.
Attendees must be fully vaccinated and Masks required indoors
Beginners Expected!

LOVING THE SATURDAY WORKSHOP
The long-running Visual Perception Workshop is at the heart of O’Hanlon Center. Recently we asked workshop participants for their thoughts.
I love doing art with friends…and then sharing it!
I love that it is a drop-in class and
I don’t have to sign up ahead of time.
I like that I don’t have to know how to do art…
It’s about our own creativity.
It is so much fun.
I love the creative atmosphere. It breeds excitement and enjoyment of the process.
I like the mix of people and their art.
It is free and fun.
I like that I can get into the flow of art and forget the stressful world.
I look forward to stepping into another time and place. It is a magical experience to visit this special piece of land at the foot of Mt Tam.
Being with people who care about art and artists is something I find worthwhile. I feel lucky to have discovered this class. It informs me well beyond 4 hours on Saturday.
This Saturday workshop serves as a tool to open up all of my senses and I come alive.
The setting is gorgeous and serene.
I love Saturday class. I wouldn’t think of missing it. I come every Saturday, and have for years and years.

View more visual arts programs

Victress Arts Productions and OHCA Present BOUNDLESS HEART
2023-01-07 17:00 - 19:00
The evening’s events arise from silence.
Poetry, classical and improvisational music,
and the short documentary film all point to the great classic mystery,
and to its nourishing beauty as discovered by many mystics around the world,
historically and in our modern times.

Doors at 4:30 pm

Art is a Way of Knowing (on Zoom) w/ PEGGY LILIENTHAL LINDEN
2023-01-08 10:00 - 14:00
Art is a means to enter, to play with, to dance with, to wrestle with anything that intrigues, delights, disturbs or terrifies us.
– PAT B. ALLEN, introduction, Art Is a Spiritual Path
This short series of drop-in classes offers a space for art making as personal inquiry. Using journaling and art making we open to our “‘Creative Source.” Total beginners and experienced artists are welcome. Please have art making materials of your choice and a journal for the workshop.
The session will provide the setting for you to explore your own creative work. This is a time to be open to exploring, adventuring, trying something new (or old), and expressing your intuition, imagination, thoughts or beliefs. From past sessions participants have reported an expanded a sense of clarity, expressing themselves more creatively, and increased insight into themselves.

This Zoom workshop is for 10 people max. Meets on Zoom 2nd Sunday 12:30 – 4:30 Pacific Time.

$40, $35 OHCA members, per session
Register and Peggy will send you the invite link.

Please read Zoom prerequisite before signing up.*
*Participants should be familiar with Zoom – how to use the chat, how to mute and un-mute, how to toggle between video and audio only. Ensuring your web-cam and microphone are working beforehand is essential. Having earbuds or a headset is helpful if you don’t have a private space from which to participate.
Participants need to provide their own art materials and a journal. Take time to create a sacred space, comfortable and free from distractions. Having a water bottle at hand is helpful. Art materials can be really simple or elaborate. It is a great practice to improvise with what is available.
It is requested that participants stay until the end of the session in order to preserve the “alchemical container”. Sharing words and images at the end of the session is an important part of the practice. When we create a group “field” together, the words or imagery that arise for any one person may have important meaning for other members of the group. The more we practice together the more connection and synchronicity we invite.

PEGGY LINDEN – Embodiment Coaching: Combining Coaching, Creativity & the Body
Biography
Peggy Linden studied with and was mentored by Ann O’Hanlon during her 20’s and 30’s and this launched her into the world of art. Peggy had the privilege of being invited to Ann’s cabin at Lake Tahoe for a week at a time on two separate occasions where all she was ‘allowed to do’ was paint all day on Ann’s deck.
Peggy also studied with Josef Albers and Josep Grau-Garigga. Peggy’s mother was Windy Lilienthal, the fiber-artist. They attended Ann’s workshops together. Peggy’s former husband, David Linden was the attorney who incorporated the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts.
Peggy combines her career as a CranioSacral Therapist (a hands-on-healing modality) with her work as a Certified Resilient Leadership Coach and an artist. Her Visual Journaling Art Workshops have elements of coaching built into them, while also using body awareness for grounding.
Peggy holds a Masters in Adult Education and has completed a majority of all classes for her PH.D.

Monoprinting w/ CANDIS COUSINS
2023-01-08 10:00 - 15:00
WE ARE NOW OFFERING THIS WORKSHOP TWICE A MONTH
Monoprinting is a playful, exploratory process requiring neither a press nor a background in art

On a plate of gel or plexiglass, images are made with paint, rollers, sponges, netting, leaves or anything else which might create an interesting pattern. The focus is not upon the finished work but upon the experience of discovery and making art.
In the workshop, after two or three hours, the group gathers to discuss what has been created. The purpose of the discussion is to help each person recognize the beauty in their work. Or, in the words of Ann O’Hanlon, our purpose is “to look upon a seemingly random work of our own with interest” and with “the same fulfillment… experienced on an unknown wilderness trail.”
Sundays, 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH

Sunday, January 8
Sunday, February 5
Sunday, March 5

FULL please choose another date

Sunday, January 22
Sunday, February 19
Sunday, March 19

$55, $44 OHCA members,
$10 materials fee paid to instructor at day of class
10 people MAX
Participants must be fully vaccinated and wear masks.

ART DETAIL: JANET GREENWOOD

About Candis Cousins
Candis Cousins first came to the Center in 1972. Ann O’Hanlon was alive and at that time the Center was called ‘Sight and Insight.’ On Candis’ first day, Ann’s suggestion for working was this: “Every decision you make, try to make the wrong decision.”
In 2002, Candis returned to OHCA to join the mono printing group led by Cayen Robertson and Karen Cox. In her own work, Candis tries to keep moving forward without a plan, just to see what comes.

Drawing for Teens w/ LAUREL SHEAR
2023-01-09 16:00 - 17:30, 2023-01-16 16:00 - 17:30
Light, tone, line, pattern, mass, perspective, abstraction and composition
6-week series – Mondays: 4 to 5:30 p.m.
NEW 6-WEEK SERIES 2023: Jan 9, 16, 30, Feb 6 & 13
In this 6-week series we will use a range of drawing materials. Each class will start with a warmup, and then focus on translating three dimensional objects to a two-dimensional surface, focusing on light, tone, line, pattern, mass, perspective, abstraction and composition
Maximum 8 students
A materials list will be emailed after registration
$240 or $190 for OHCA members

ABOUT LAUREL
Laurel Shear lives and works in the California Bay Area. She opened her first New York solo show, Daydreaming In My Nightmare, at Fort Gansevoort in March 2018. Recent exhibitions include Right Here Right Now, Richmond Art Center and NIAD (Richmond, CA) My Silences Had Not Protected Me, For Freedoms, Fort Gansevoort, (New York), Where Dreams Come True, TSA LA (Los Angeles), Push, Incline Gallery (San Francisco). She is a former member of the artist run gallery Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Los Angeles. Press for her work includes Artnet, New York Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, and Luxe Magazine, among others. She facilitates drawing and painting workshops at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts and serves on the Board. Shear was a competitive cheerleader, she’s an energy medicine practitioner, and a proud mama.
www.laurelshear.com

In Person Member Show Roundtable and Reception
2023-01-14 14:30 - 16:30
In Person Member Show Roundtable and Reception
All welcome!
Meet the artists and celebrate the show. 92 works!

Painting en Plein Air w/ LAUREL SHEAR
2023-01-19 10:00 - 13:00
Experience the joy of painting outside in this one-day workshop.
Open to Adults and Teens. All levels of experience welcomed. You may use any material you like; Laurel will be using oil paint. This workshop will run every third Thursday of the month
Meet at Old Mill Park, Mill Valley [Old Mill Park is on Throckmorton just below the Mill Valley Library at Cascade Drive and Throckmorton]
$110 OHCA Members $88

January 19, 2023

Suggested materials list provided by instructor after registration.

ABOUT LAUREL
Laurel Shear lives and works in the California Bay Area. She opened her first New York solo show, Daydreaming In My Nightmare, at Fort Gansevoort in March 2018. Recent exhibitions include Right Here Right Now, Richmond Art Center and NIAD (Richmond, CA) My Silences Had Not Protected Me, For Freedoms, Fort Gansevoort, (New York), Where Dreams Come True, TSA LA (Los Angeles), Push, Incline Gallery (San Francisco). She is a former member of the artist run gallery Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Los Angeles. Press for her work includes Artnet, New York Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, and Luxe Magazine, among others. She facilitates drawing and painting workshops at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts and serves on the Board. Shear was a competitive cheerleader, she’s an energy medicine practitioner, and a proud mama.
www.laurelshear.com

Poetry with Cruwys via Zoom
2023-01-19 14:00 - 15:30
For poets and poetry lovers alike
Join with OHCA resident poet Cruwys Brown and 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Marin County, CB Follett, for an afternoon of poetry exploration, reading, and discussion.
Submit a short (one page max) poem to share and discuss in advance to office@ohanloncenter.org. This can be a poem you love, or want to explore. One you have written or not.
Eight people max.
Since space is limited please contact Erma Murphy, erma@ohanoncenter.org to register.
Feb 2 and 16, March 2, 16 and 30

Short bio of Cruwys Brown
Dick Brown is a long-time explorer of poetry. The first poetry group he attended was in 1965 in Brooklyn Heights, NY, around the corner from where Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass. He has been involved in poetry workshops over the past several years. He founded the Marin Poet Laureate Program with the Marin County Free Library System.

Monoprinting w/ CANDIS COUSINS
2023-01-22 10:00 - 15:00
WE ARE NOW OFFERING THIS WORKSHOP TWICE A MONTH
Monoprinting is a playful, exploratory process requiring neither a press nor a background in art

On a plate of gel or plexiglass, images are made with paint, rollers, sponges, netting, leaves or anything else which might create an interesting pattern. The focus is not upon the finished work but upon the experience of discovery and making art.
In the workshop, after two or three hours, the group gathers to discuss what has been created. The purpose of the discussion is to help each person recognize the beauty in their work. Or, in the words of Ann O’Hanlon, our purpose is “to look upon a seemingly random work of our own with interest” and with “the same fulfillment… experienced on an unknown wilderness trail.”
Sundays, 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

MARCH
APRIL
MAY

Sunday, March 5
Sunday, April 2
Sunday, May 7

Sorry,
this workshop is sold out

Sunday, March 19
Sunday, April 16
Sunday, May 21

$55, $44 OHCA members,
$10 materials fee paid to instructor at day of class
8 people MAX
Participants must be fully vaccinated and wear masks.

ART DETAIL: JANET GREENWOOD

About Candis Cousins
Candis Cousins first came to the Center in 1972. Ann O’Hanlon was alive and at that time the Center was called ‘Sight and Insight.’ On Candis’ first day, Ann’s suggestion for working was this: “Every decision you make, try to make the wrong decision.”
In 2002, Candis returned to OHCA to join the mono printing group led by Cayen Robertson and Karen Cox. In her own work, Candis tries to keep moving forward without a plan, just to see what comes.

Annual Member Meeting
2023-01-23 17:00 - 18:30
Annual Member Meeting
Open to all active members.
Monday, Jan 23, 5 – 6:30 pm

Hear from board, staff and committee chairs about the current state of affairs and goals for the new year.
Meet your fellow members and ask questions.
Celebrate OHCA!
