O'Hanlon Center for the Arts

O’Hanlon Poetry Collective on Zoom
2024-04-04 14:00 - 15:30, 2024-04-04 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-21 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 currently at maximum capacity of 12 active participants. If you’d like to get on the wait list please email office@ohanloncenter.org.
OHCA Members only
12 people max. $10 per session.

Payment for Current Poetry group members

Creative Writing w/ Abby Wasserman
2024-04-04 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-03-28 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-03-21 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 15 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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Mindfulness-Based Meditation Group on Zoom with Catherine Flaxman
2024-04-03 19:15 - 20:15, 2024-03-27 19:15 - 20:15, 2024-03-20 19:15 - 20:15 | Zoom
Living in the Present. Finding Peace Within
Applying the Dharma and Inner Wisdom to Daily Life

Wednesdays 7:15 – 8:15 p.m.
January 10 – April 3, 2024
Drawing on mindfulness practices and Buddhist perspectives, we attend to the breath and present moment awareness, so that we may step back from inciting thoughts and emotions, loosen the grip of the past and open to silence. Through these practices, the mind settles, and the heart opens and softens. We touch the inherent goodness within, cultivate compassion for self and others and learn to engage fully with life – no matter what comes our way.
Includes instruction, guided meditation and silent practice, poetry, reflections and writings.
Open to all. No prior experience necessary.
Participants are encouraged to attend every meeting to receive the benefit of regular practice within a supportive, spiritual community.
By donation on a sliding scale. Suggested donation $8 – $12 per week or $96 – $144 for series. In order to cultivate and deepen regular practice, participants are encouraged to attend every time.
Questions: Call Catherine at (415 389 8633). To receive info on how to donate and get the recurring Zoom link contact: catherine@catherineflaxman.com

Catherine Flaxman
Catherine Flaxman, M.A. LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice in Mill Valley. Catherine has been meditating since her teens, went to India in her 20’s and began practicing Vipassana (Insight meditation) over forty-five years ago. She has taught meditation at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, been a guest teacher at Spirit Rock, and conducted a weekly meditation group at the Mill Valley Community Center for five years.

Writing from the Heart w/ Dr. Peller Marion (on Zoom)
2024-04-03 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 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

Floral Fantasties Art Talk and Reception April 2
2024-04-02 16:00 - 19:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Please join us at 4:00 for an art talk by the exhibition artists. A reception will follow at 5:30 – 7:00 pm.
We are part of the Mill Valley Art Commission First Tuesday Artwalk.

Tuesday Perception Workshop
2024-04-02 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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Saturday Perception Workshop
2024-03-30 10:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-23 10:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-16 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 andI 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.

Monoprinting – with Candis Cousins 6/16/24

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

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Art of World Cultures for Kids Ages 8 to 10: with Zoe Harris – 2024
2024-03-28 15:15 - 16:15, 2024-03-21 15:15 - 16:15, 2024-03-14 15:15 - 16:15 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
In these fun and unique classes, children will learn about different creative traditions from cultures around the world.

2024 CLASS CURRENTLY ON HIATUS – If you are interested in participating in future classes, please contact the Office.

For children ages 8-10
(note updated time: 3:15 – 4:15pm)
Sessions will incorporate recycled materials, found and natural objects, paint, special papers, ink, and more!
A $20 materials fee paid directly to the instructor will be required 1x during the school year per participant.
RSVP the Friday prior to each session.
NEW: For the safety of all, children must be fully vaccinated against COVID to participate.

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.
(Class on hiatus – see note at top of listing)

Surprise Yourself - Creation and Perception w/ CANDIS & CAYEN
2024-03-27 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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2024-03-26 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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Drawing for Teens – with Laurel Shear (2024 series 2)
2024-03-25 16:00 - 17:30, 2024-03-18 16:00 - 17:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Light, tone, line, pattern, mass, perspective, abstraction and composition
Mondays: 4 to 5:30 p.m.
6 weeks, 2024 Series 2:
February 12, 26
March 4, 11, 18, 25
Please note schedule: No class February 19
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
(register by 12 noon, February 12)

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

Art Exploration for 8 to 12 year-olds with Laurel Shear
2024-03-25 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-18 15:00 - 16:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Spend 60 minutes each week using your imagination and developing your artistic voice!

• Create using a variety of material.
• Choose what and how to make “stuff with stuff”
• Draw, paint, print, sculpt, glue, and cut.
• Bring your unique vision to life with hands on art-making

Feb 12th – March 28th
(no class on Presidents’ Day Feb 19)
Mondays for 6 weeks
3:00 – 4:00 pm
$200 | $160 OHCA members
12 children max

Materials Provided $20 materials fee per session to instructor

Laurel Shear
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 a mama.

Sunday Family Art Day
2024-03-24 13:00 - 15:30 | 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

2024 Spring dates:

March 24, 2024
April 28, 2024
May 26, 2024

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 currently Board President of 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 on the OHCA Board.

Sunday Family Art Day$60.00

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Postponed...Mixed Media Weaving on a Simple Loom – with Vicki Assegued
2024-03-24 10:00 - 17:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
This workshop is Postponed. New Date TBD.
Learn to create unique mixed media weavings
$175 | $140 OHCA members+ $35 Material fee, paid to Facilitator
(5 students minimum, 12 maximum)

Learn many techniques to create exciting and unique mixed media weavings, on a simple loom (supplied for you). You’ll learn many stitches to weave in yarn and fabric, and then add beads, jewelry parts and all sorts of fun embellishments to create a textured and lively piece.
You’ll also learn to make special tassels, pompoms, and fringes to add on to the body and edges of your weaving.
No weaving or art experience is necessary to take this workshop, or to make fabulous pieces of art.
Perfect for beginning through advanced artists.

Materials List for Students to Bring:

Fabric scissors
Embroidery needle (plastic or metal, 3 inches long, with eye large enough to fit yarn),
Fabric and yarn (made of any materials, colors and textures you like)
Very strong string (for the warp string) that won’t break when pulled upon
Needle and thread
Optional: string, beads, buttons, jewelry parts, driftwood, shells, etc.
(The instructor will provide many fabrics, yarns and embellishments, and please do bring your own stash, as well).

Instructor will supply:

Loom
Fabric, yarn, string, beads, buttons and other embellishments

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Vicki Assegued, M.A. is an experimental, innovative fiber artist who teaches her techniques to students at various art schools, retreats and museums, and also exhibits and sells her artwork. Please see vickiart.com for more information.

Canceled due to Rain - Center Landscape Beautification Volunteer Day
2024-03-23 12:00 - 16:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Work Day Canceled due to forecast of RAIN!
Please Email the office to schedule a time you can come and we will give you a task: office@ohanloncenter.org or call 415.388.4331 Wear work gloves, hat and sunscreen, bring snack – help us get ready for the April 20 Garden Party.
THANK YOU!

Tuesday Perception Workshop
2024-03-19 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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Monoprinting – with Candis Cousins 3/17/24
2024-03-17 10:00 - 15:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
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.
$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

Coral Reef Exploration
2024-03-15 12:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Join Sarah McNeil and Jackie La Lanne to explore making some fun coral reef creations.
Inspired by crocheted coral reefs made from fiber, we will give you the tools to explore making 3-D hyperbolic shapes, which resemble the structures of coral and other structures found in nature.
Alternatively, work with felting and other materials to simply explore making “things” that live in our oceans’ treasures.
We are hoping that perhaps some of the creations could become part of an entry for the OHCA fiber exhibit in May.

Materials: Use the supplies of yarn, crochet needles, felt, and other items that we’ll have on hand.
Please also feel free to bring with you any cast-off yarn or other materials that you might like to work with.
Here is a link to the crochet coral reef project which is serving as inspiration.https://www.margaretwertheim.com/crochet-coral-reef

March 15, Noon to 2:00FREE RSVP or just drop in!
