Teaching
Foraged Books: The Art of Place
June 15-19, 2026
Chateau de la Napoule
Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France
Delve into consciousness and memory for your magical places and stories and create an artist’s book to contain your concepts. Your book(s) may become a travel journal of this, a past or future trip, a free-wheeling, non-linear record of an experience or thought, and a certain path to dynamic creative exploration!
Medicine Wheel
Cindy Parker
Teaching artist at a beautiful château near Cannes, France. These are all-inclusive wellbeing retreats centered around artmaking and self-discovery. Find out more here! 2027 classes coming soon.
The Secret Lives of Materials
June 29-July 3, 2026
Chateau de la Napoule
Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France
We are intimately connected to the materials we choose in all parts of our lives—especially in art making. We are drawn to materials through texture, color, smell, shape, scale, and movement. Our creative processes emerge from gestures that live within us, shaped by past experiences and memories.
In this workshop, we will experiment with a range of materials while exploring their origin stories and their historical, cultural, and personal significance. We will investigate how tools, substrates, gestures, and methods of attachment shape the creative process.
La Napoule Art Foundation: Threshold Art Retreats
Come to Bohemia
I am co-founder of Bohemia, a creative studio in North Boulder where I facilitate expressive art workshops and programs that encourage experimentation, discovery, and creative engagement.
We also run Purple Art, an expressive art program for older adults and people experiencing memory loss.
Visit Bohemia to explore current classes and programs.
"A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem."
- Alejo Carpentier
