Yoga at OHCA with Sarah McNeil - Jan 24
2025-01-24 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Yoga at OHCA with Sarah McNeil
Friday, January 24, 9:30 – 10:30 am
This class will be offered for 8 consecutive Fridays to start.
(January 10th through February 28, 2025)
Tap into the flow of breath and movement, creating space in mind and body.
Yoga offers a sense of freedom and ease that can fuel your creativity.
Sarah’s class is designed to support anyone seeking a steady, deeper practice.
All levels are welcome provided that you can move from a seated floor position to standing postures. Please bring your own yoga mat and wear comfortable clothing. Other props such as blocks, blankets and straps are provided. The class location at O’Hanlon may shift weekly between the Loft, Gallery and possibly the outdoor deck.
Weekly Registration Required due to space limitations.
$15 members/$20 non-members
6 people max

Sarah McNeil is a mixed-media artist and yoga teacher living in Mill Valley. She began dancing at a young age and shifted to yoga over twenty years ago. After receiving a 500 hour credential with YogaWorks in 2013, Sarah began teaching as a continuation of her personal practice. Currently Sarah teaches at the YMCA of San Francisco (where she has been since 2016).

Saturday Perception Workshop
2025-01-25 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-02-01 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-02-08 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
One of the core principles Ann O’Hanlon stressed was learning how to seeFor over 35 years – Saturdays have been a time to put that into practice. To experiment and discover.

Thank you to Ann Fricker and Noni Garner for organizing the return to the LOFT Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm.
The morning starts with a simple exercise or prompt that informs the day.
$25 non-members | $20 OHCA members.
Materials provided or bring your own.

Attendees must be fully vaccinated and Masks required indoors
Workshop will be held in the LOFT
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.

POSTPONED – Art Inspires Poetry Workshops with Gini Grossenbacher and Robin Gabbert – Session 3, Feb 4

$20.00 – $25.00Price range: $20.00 through $25.00

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Sunday Family Art Day
2025-01-26 13:00 - 15:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
A monthly child-led art workshop with seasonal and nature themes layered into the activity
with Catherine Taylor Tai or Jackie La Lanne
The O’Hanlon Loft is a space for children (and grownups) to come get messy, try new things and have fun. We will experiment with paint, crayons, glue, glitter and found objects depending on the season and age of participants.
Workshop will take place in the O’Hanlon Loft Studio.

$40 per family Plus $5 materials to be paid to facilitator day of event

ABOUT JACKIE
Jackie La Lanne retired at the end of 2021 from over 30 years teaching art in the Mill Valley School district. She is a former Board President of O’Hanlon. She graduated from Sonoma State University with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Studio Art and a Masters Degree in Art Education. She loves teaching art and making photographs, which she says have a lot in common: discovering, making, envisioning, sharing, and having fun. La Lanne, who can often be found in the artroom wearing the earrings she made from her old bike lock keys, has been teaching elementary art curriculum in Mill Valley public schools for many years. She is an accomplished artist, teacher, and photographer and has created wonderful collaborative textile projects for her five grandchildren.

ABOUT CATHERINE
Catherine Taylor Tai is an artist, mother and health coach. She has enjoyed raising her three children around the world from NYC to Singapore and now Northern California.
She is an advocate of forest school and the arts and loves when the two meet. Catherine also serves as the OHCA Board President.

Sunday Family Art Day$60.00

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Drawing for Teens with Laurel Shear
2025-01-27 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-02-03 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-02-10 16:30 - 18:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Light, tone, line, pattern, mass, perspective, abstraction and composition

Mondays: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
6 weeks, non consecutive Mondays:
Jan 13, 27, Feb 3, 10 & 24, Mar 3
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 $192 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

Annual Member Meeting 2025
2025-01-27 17:30 - 20:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
All current OHCA Members are invited to join us for our Annual Meeting & Pot Luck.

This will be a more informal celebration of the past year. We want to hear from the members!
Bring food or Drink to share.
5:30 pm – Potluck
6:00 pm – Meeting

Tuesday Perception Workshop
2025-01-28 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
The Visual Perception workshops are hands-on creating with materials, experimenting, and discovering without dependence on technique. Participants are encouraged to pay attention to what you see, accept the marks you make, explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
A simple prompt or exercise is given at the beginning of class. Participants are free to elaborate on their initial efforts or do something else entirely.
We end the workshops with a gathering (coming together) of everyone and their work. Participants look, discuss, and value the work created.

Most materials are provided and/or bring your own.
$25 non-members | $20 OHCA members
Masking may be required. Bring a mask in case.

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Ceramic OPEN STUDIO in Koya with Nancy Rumsey (Tuesdays, series 1)
2025-01-28 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-02-04 16:00 - 20:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Ceramic OPEN STUDIO in Koya with Nancy Rumsey
Tuesday or Wednesday evenings 4-8 pm

The ceramic studio has room for 4 with 2 electric wheels and handbuilding working space. Tues.- Wed. 4-8 pm with 4 people each night.
Self lead but some instruction offered if requested. Learn to use wheel or other techniques. For anyone who wants to explore working with CLAY!
CHOOSE your day of the week for 4 weeks, either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Series 1:
Tuesdays, Jan 28 – Feb 18 (Register below)
Wednesdays, Jan 29 – Feb 19
Series 2:
Tuesdays, Feb 25 – March 18
Wednesdays, Feb 26 – March 19
Price/Costs:
$200 or $160 OHCA members for 4 consecutive weeks.

Additional costs paid to instructor:

25 lbs of clay $30 – $40
Shared Firing cost: estimate total per firing $80 – $100 divided by potters quantity/size pots. TBD with facilitator.
Glazing: Nancy has glazes free of charge for now till we use them up!

For more info call Nancy Rumsey 415.887.8189
Nancy Rumsey ran the Tam High Adult Education Ceramic program for many years. They closed the program in 2024.

Surprise Yourself - Creation and Perception w/ CANDIS & CAYEN
2025-01-29 11:00 - 13:00
Every other Wednesday Cayen and Candis are offering a Zoomed art talk!
Using Ann O’Hanlon’s book, seeing/perception, as inspiration, Cayen and Candis lead discussions of what we see when we look at the artworks of others or our own.
11 am to 1 pm
Limited number of participants.
Contact Cayen if you are interested in joining the group to get on the wait list: cayenr@comcast.net

Cayen Robertson is an active visual artist working in paper and inks. She has been a long time facilitator at the O’Hanlon Center and loves talking with people about their art.
Candis Cousins works in monoprint, collage and drawing. For twelve years she was in the monoprint workshop led by Cayen Robertson. When Cayen stepped down five years ago, Candis began facilitating the workshop. Whether we are looking at the work of other artists or our own work, Candis believes that our discussions can move us from prejudice to a state of wonder, recognizing beauty in unexpected places.

Surprise Yourself – Creation and Perception$20.00

Please contact Cayen if you are interested in joining the group to get on the wait list: cayenr@comcast.net

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A zoomed art talk. Using Ann O’Hanlon’s book, seeing/perception, as inspiration, Cayen Robertson and Candis Cousins lead discussions of what we see when we look at the artworks of others or our own.

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Cancelled Ceramic OPEN STUDIO in Koya with Nancy Rumsey (Wednesdays, series 1)
2025-01-29 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-02-05 16:00 - 20:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
CANCELLED due to low interest

Ceramic OPEN STUDIO in Koya with Nancy Rumsey
Tuesday or Wednesday evenings 4-8 pm

The ceramic studio has room for 4 with 2 electric wheels and handbuilding working space. Tues.- Wed. 4-8 pm with 4 people each night.
Self lead but some instruction offered if requested. Learn to use wheel or other techniques. For anyone who wants to explore working with CLAY!
CHOOSE your day of the week for 4 weeks, either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Series 1:
Tuesdays, Jan 28 – Feb 18
Wednesdays, Jan 29 – Feb 19 (Register below)
Series 2:
Tuesdays, Feb 25 – March 18
Wednesdays, Feb 26 – March 19
Price/Costs:
$200 or $160 OHCA members for 4 consecutive weeks.

Additional costs paid to instructor:

25 lbs of clay $30 – $40
Shared Firing cost: estimate total per firing $80 – $100 divided by potters quantity/size pots. TBD with facilitator.
Glazing: Nancy has glazes free of charge for now till we use them up!

For more info call Nancy Rumsey 415.887.8189
Nancy Rumsey ran the Tam High Adult Education Ceramic program for many years. They closed the program in 2024.

Creative Writing w/ Abby Wasserman
2025-01-30 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-02-06 10:00 - 12:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
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 over 20 years.
This ongoing Thursday workshop is held in person in the upper Loft.

$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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O’Hanlon Poetry Collective on Zoom
2025-01-30 14:00 - 15:30
For O’Hanlon Member poets and poetry lovers.
Hosted by Suz Lipman, Jonathan Livingston and guests.
A bi-monthly online gathering started by OHCA resident poet Cruwys Brown and featuring 2010-2012 Marin County Poet Laureate, CB Follett, and others to explore, read and discuss poetry.
This group is has room for 2 more active participants. If you’d like to participate, please email office@ohanloncenter.org.
OHCA Members only
12 people max. $10 per session.

Payment for Current Poetry group members

Vimala Sangha
2025-01-31 09:00 - 10:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
For information about the group
please contact Celeste Perry:
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Yoga at OHCA with Sarah McNeil - Jan 31
2025-01-31 09:30 - 10:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Yoga at OHCA with Sarah McNeil
Friday, January 31, 9:30 – 10:30 am
This class will be offered for 8 consecutive Fridays to start.
(January 10th through February 28, 2025)
Tap into the flow of breath and movement, creating space in mind and body.
Yoga offers a sense of freedom and ease that can fuel your creativity.
Sarah’s class is designed to support anyone seeking a steady, deeper practice.
All levels are welcome provided that you can move from a seated floor position to standing postures. Please bring your own yoga mat and wear comfortable clothing. Other props such as blocks, blankets and straps are provided. The class location at O’Hanlon may shift weekly between the Loft, Gallery and possibly the outdoor deck.
Weekly Registration Required due to space limitations.
$15 members/$20 non-members
6 people max

Sarah McNeil is a mixed-media artist and yoga teacher living in Mill Valley. She began dancing at a young age and shifted to yoga over twenty years ago. After receiving a 500 hour credential with YogaWorks in 2013, Sarah began teaching as a continuation of her personal practice. Currently Sarah teaches at the YMCA of San Francisco (where she has been since 2016).

Monoprinting – with Candis Cousins 2/2/25
2025-02-02 10:00 - 15:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
WE ARE 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.
$55 | $44 OHCA members +
$10 materials fee paid to facilitator on day of workshop
7 people MAX

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.

“It is such an invigorating, soul-finding experience to facilitate this workshop. A love-fest, a laugh-fest on the high seas of creativity!”
– Candis

Memoir Writing Workshop with Jill Morris
2025-02-03 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-10 13:00 - 15:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
In this 6 week memoir writing workshop you will begin, continue or finish the journey of writing your memoir.
On this journey you will write weekly, as we explore structure, theme, character, setting, scenes and point of view. Discover the right balance between narration and reflection, exposition and imagery.
Most important – Your memoir can take many different shapes, for example, a novel, a collection of short stories, a mixture of photos and description, a handmade manuscript of reflections. The choice is yours!

Memoir Writing Workshop with Jill Morris
6 Mondays, Feb 3 – March 10
1:00 – 3:00 pm

$210 for members and $250 for nonmembers
Max 8 participants – Deadline to register Feb 2 at midnight

For more info about Jill Morris, visit her website: yourlifeyourwords.com

Tuesday Perception Workshop
2025-02-04 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
The Visual Perception workshops are hands-on creating with materials, experimenting, and discovering without dependence on technique. Participants are encouraged to pay attention to what you see, accept the marks you make, explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
A simple prompt or exercise is given at the beginning of class. Participants are free to elaborate on their initial efforts or do something else entirely.
We end the workshops with a gathering (coming together) of everyone and their work. Participants look, discuss, and value the work created.

Most materials are provided and/or bring your own.
$25 non-members | $20 OHCA members
Masking may be required. Bring a mask in case.

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Opening Art Talk and Reception for LYRICAL
2025-02-04 16:00 - 19:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Please join us for a talk with the artists in LYRICAL at 4:00 pm followed by a reception at 5:30.

Take Flight LORI EMERSON Opening Reception in the LOFT
2025-02-04 17:30 - 19:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Meet Lori and see her work up the Month of February in the LOFT.
Opening Reception from 5:30 – 7:00.

Writing from the Heart w/ Dr. Peller Marion (on Zoom)
2025-02-05 13:30 - 15:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
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 Third 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

Yoga at OHCA with Sarah McNeil - Feb 7
2025-02-07 09:30 - 10:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Yoga at OHCA with Sarah McNeil
Friday, February 7, 9:30 – 10:30 am
This class will be offered for 8 consecutive Fridays to start.
(January 10th through February 28, 2025)
Tap into the flow of breath and movement, creating space in mind and body.
Yoga offers a sense of freedom and ease that can fuel your creativity.
Sarah’s class is designed to support anyone seeking a steady, deeper practice.
All levels are welcome provided that you can move from a seated floor position to standing postures. Please bring your own yoga mat and wear comfortable clothing. Other props such as blocks, blankets and straps are provided. The class location at O’Hanlon may shift weekly between the Loft, Gallery and possibly the outdoor deck.
Weekly Registration Required due to space limitations.
$15 members/$20 non-members
6 people max

Sarah McNeil is a mixed-media artist and yoga teacher living in Mill Valley. She began dancing at a young age and shifted to yoga over twenty years ago. After receiving a 500 hour credential with YogaWorks in 2013, Sarah began teaching as a continuation of her personal practice. Currently Sarah teaches at the YMCA of San Francisco (where she has been since 2016).

JUST WRITE Drop-In with Jill Morris
2025-02-07 14:30 - 16:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Jill Morris will host a ‘just write’ drop-in weekly. The drop-in will consist of independent silent writing with a well-earned coffee/tea break. We all know that the greatest challenge to completing a memoir is the ability to sit down and just write, the same way we brush our teeth daily.
‘Just Write’ drop-ins offer the crucial components to achieve completion: support and accountability, where you can set a page limit for yourself weekly.
Some of you may be new to writing, others may be more experienced. What you’ll have in common is the desire to write your life story and offer one another a supportive writing community.
JUST WRITE Drop-In with Jill Morris
Fridays Feb 7- March 14 from 2:30 – 4:30 pm
$20 or $15 members.
Drop in.
You may prepay below for one or more drop-in sessions.

For more info about Jill Morris, visit her website: yourlifeyourwords.com

Tuesday Perception Workshop
2025-02-11 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
The Visual Perception workshops are hands-on creating with materials, experimenting, and discovering without dependence on technique. Participants are encouraged to pay attention to what you see, accept the marks you make, explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
A simple prompt or exercise is given at the beginning of class. Participants are free to elaborate on their initial efforts or do something else entirely.
We end the workshops with a gathering (coming together) of everyone and their work. Participants look, discuss, and value the work created.

Most materials are provided and/or bring your own.
$25 non-members | $20 OHCA members
Masking may be required. Bring a mask in case.

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