Calm in the Storm: A Creative Reset

A 3-Hour Creative Reset Through Collage, Color, and Exploration

In a world that feels loud, fast, and demanding, this experience is an invitation to slow down.

We are often asked to move faster, produce more, and stay endlessly alert. Calm in the Storm is an intentional pause to slow your body, soften your mind, and reconnect with your natural creative rhythm through hands-on making, gentle prompts, and flow.

We’ll step out of the noise and into our hands—cutting, pasting, painting, drawing, and layering in handmade books as a way to reconnect with ourselves.

This experience blends:

• A gentle practice to connect and settle in
• Intuitive artmaking (collage, paint, drawing, mixed materials)
• Spaciousness play, and permission to explore without judgement
• Soft music to stimulate conenction with our senses

Please feel free to call with any questions or need help registering: Elizabeth Ross (207) 232-9375 or Susan Newbold (203) 520-2767.

You’ll leave with:

• A handmade book created through stillness, discovery, and play.
• A felt sense of grounding and calm
• A renewed relationship with creativity as nourishment

All materials are provided, along with gourmet snacks and drinks to support a relaxed, sensory-rich afternoon.

Pricing* includes all materials—so you can arrive empty-handed and fully supported.

*We want this to be inclusive, please contact Elizabeth if a reduced price is needed.

Who This Is For

Calm in the Storm is especially for:

• People feeling overwhelmed, stretched thin, or creatively blocked
• Those craving quiet, tactile, screen-free time

The Location:

The upstairs studio at Good Medicine Collective is filled with natural materials, plants, and picture windows overlooking the fore river. It is designed to feel safe, unhurried, and welcoming—an antidote to the pace of everyday life.

This offering is created in partnership with Elizabeth and Susan Newbold.

Susan received a BA in Studio Art from Principia College and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College. Her final project, an artist book, was acquired by The Chicago Institute of Art. She is also a graduate of the Post Bac program of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. She has been awarded four fellowships to work in France by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The MD Institute of Art. Additional residencies have been at the New Pacific Studios in New Zealand,VT Studio Center and the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, ME.

Her work is often a journey in organic line and color. This line often confronts the rooted and the displaced, the spiritual and the material. Drawing, painting, bookmaking and printmaking are the vocabulary used to describe this artistic journey. Color and black and white are equally interesting to the artist and often there is a combination of both. The result is often one of surprises.

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Host or Publisher Elizabeth Ross Holmstrom