Artwhole: a cohort for your art practice
a four-week container for artists to commit to their practice together, and to support and challenge one another on the creative path
I’m running an artists’ group!
In designing it, I am creating the container that I would like for myself. I want a cohort, a sangha, of like-minded comrades, who take their creative work seriously-but-playfully. I want us to support and hold each other’s visions, to prod inquisitively and honestly at each other’s blockages, and to hold each other accountable to our commitments.
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The details
April 13–May 8, 2026 (4 weeks)
Weekly 90-minute calls, with two 70-minute co-art-making calls
Monday practice circle call: 12-1:30PM EST
Wednesday Art Hour: 12-1:10pm EST
Friday public Art Hour: 12-1:10pm EST
Capped at 8 participants
$200-400 sliding scale
If you contribute $300 or more, you can book an extra hour-long 1:1 art practice call with me! See below for details.
The structure
Each week there will be three calls:
Monday: Practice circle
We’ll gather for 90 minutes for a combination of:
clarifying our vision, putting structures in place to help us commit to ourselves
sharing our work and processes with each other and getting feedback
somatic and emotional unblocking exercises (some of which experimental and possibly unhinged)
exercises to stimulate creativity and intuition (some of which experimental and possibly unhinged)
1:1 coaching and peer coaching in small groups
Wednesday: Art Hour
On a muted call, we’ll check in briefly, do 1 hour of uninterrupted art practice together, then check out
Friday: public Art Hour
Art Hour, but open to the public. Invite your friends to join for an hour of communal art practice! (Alternatively - if you don’t end up joining this cohort of Artwhole, the public Art Hour is a chance for you to participate in a smaller way with other people who are committed to their art.)
There will also be a group chat on Telegram for further sharing and connection in between calls.
Here is a loose arc I have sketched out for the four weeks, though it may be adapted to suit participants’ needs:
Week 1: orienting to vision, structuring your practice
Week 2: disruption, play, sideways creativity
Week 3: unblocking, friction, examining the hard stuff
Week 4: integration, setting the intention for future practice
Optional 1:1 call
If you pay $300 or more for Artwhole, you can book me for an hour to help you with your practice.
I am extremely sensitive to aliveness and emotional contractions; excellent at asking surprising, attuned questions that make people reflect on and understand themselves in new ways; and I have a deeply pragmatic streak that can cut through a lot of fake problems and stuckness - and, of course, I’m on the artist’s path as well, and am intimately familiar with its struggles.
On our call I can help you work through your blocks, or you can show me your work and get feedback/prodding/challenges/prompts, or we can sit on video together while you make art and I reflect or question or nudge you, or we can make a wacky experimental collaborative work of art…or anything else we can come up with that might be useful or enjoyable to you!
Who is it for?
Artwhole is for people who already have a creative, expressive practice in mind that they wish to commit to more deeply. It’s for artists who feel that their practice would be richer if they had likeminded artists supporting them and rooting for them in their journey!
My hope is that the container will help us create more, and more regularly, by:
helping us develop commitments and rhythms in our practice; teaching us to show up to the studio consistently, even when we’re not feeling it
giving us a space to work and move through the emotional obstacles that block our creative work
providing a sense of companionship with artists on the same path!
The vibe
This is the first iteration so it’ll probably be more experimental and wacky (and cheaper) than future things I run (IMO this is a feature, not a bug!).
To give you a sense of the spirit of the container, here are some scattered notes on how I understand the creative path:
art as spiritual practice - but not a rarefied one. Seeing the spiritual in the mundane, and vice versa
your “self” not as the source of creative genius, but as merely the channel through which God manifests it. shedding ego mercilessly, and poking in the cracks, to arrive at what is true and alive
creativity as divine holy demon possession, a brilliant manic flash of inspiration…but also, developing consistency in the practice, showing up every day, rain or shine, tending the fire dutifully and unglamorously - and how the two can support one another. I prefer “devotion” to “discipline,” but from the outside they can look very similar.
make bad art. make worse art. make cringe art. just have fun. take it less seriously. all of it has to be possible in order to make great art
Fill out this form if you want to join me :)
So cool!!
This is great! Not the best time for me to bunker down and focus, and with the 8 people cap i think i should be awaiting the second iteration of this Artwhole, but i am very excited to see what comes out of it!
Plus: If you need any help with organizing it, I am available!