The 2024 Do Your ARt! Workshop will place on
Wednesday, May 15
from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Do Your ARt! Workshops–
Do Your Art is a 10 step program that helps creatives of all genre to move from novice to master.
This project supports a 90 minute LIVE informational and interactive workshop that demonstrates proven methods to be more creative.
Many of us share a desire to pursue an art form. Paint, compose music, throw a pot, write a novel. The possibilities are endless, but sometimes our motivation lags. We start new projects, but finish nothing.
Thank you to the Bellingham, Burlington, Carver, Deerfield, Pittsfield, Stoneham, Walpole, and Northern Berkshire Cultural Councils for supporting this project in 2024.
Do Your ARt! offers proven strategies that focus attention and keep us going.
Recent participants have written novels, pursued publication of poetry, sew and sell their designs, and more. Through measures of daily progress and methods of accountability, creatives will finally achieve their goals.
Through the support of Local Cultural Councils throughout the commonwealth, participants will learn strategies to pursue their creative dreams in this unique virtual program that provides frameworks and inspiration to Do Your Art.
Thank you to the Acushnet, Buckland, Chicopee, Dennis, East Bridgewater, Gardner, Harvard, Haverhill, Lawrence, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Norton, Revere Cultural Councils for supporting this project in 2023.
Who is this program for?
The target audience is the general public with particular interest in adults, seniors, and anyone interested in being more creative.
This program is tailored for hopeful artists and those looking to expand their creativity.
Cost to participate–
The program will be offered free via on online virtual platform.
Qualification of presenter–
Bernadette Stockwell, PhD, wrote her dissertation on creativity and its connection to emotions. Since 2005, she has coached clients in Spain, Ireland, and South Africa. More recently, she worked with a local physician to publish her own Kindle book and complete a 50,000 word novel.
Stockwell teaches at UMass Lowell & Fitchburg State University
AWARDS
2022 Cultural Council support came from Concord, Holbrook, Norfolk, Pembroke, Townsend, Westboro, Wilbraham, Wrentham, West Brookfield, and Lunenburg.
Acton, Bernardston, Chatham, Carlisle, Clinton, Chelmsford, Littleton and Dunstable Cultural Council 2021 in support of Do Your ARt! Workshops
Littleton Cultural Council 2011, 2014 Grant recipient for Littleton Portraits.
Nominated: University of Massachusetts Student Government Assoc. Teacher of the Year 2008-09, 2009-10.
Professional affiliations–
Circle of Success: American Writers & Artists Institute; Professional Writers Alliance; National Council of Teachers of English; Board of Directors- The Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra