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Art Retreats and Creativity Workshops
The Met Museum & Central Park Retreat
NYC ART RETREAT: Unlock Your Creativity through Expressive Drawing and Painting
Seats Open: 7
Escape the Noise. Reignite Your Creativity.
Step away from the busy pace of everyday life and immerse yourself in a nurturing and inspiring full day art retreat in New York City led by The Art Studio NY Founder, Internationally Exhibited Artist and Published Author, Rebecca Schweiger. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced artist, this intimate drawing, painting and self-expression retreat will help you to unlock your creativity, learn new artistic techniques, let go of stress, and come home to your authentic self.
Morning Session: Inspiration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This New York City day-long art retreat begins at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where you’ll learn to quiet the inner-perfectionist while practicing the foundations of gesture drawing, blind contour drawing, and expressive line work. Learn to tap into flow state and release the pressure of creating a “perfect” finished product as you practice foundational artistic techniques, including observational drawing, tonal shading, expressive mark-making, and composition, all while creating artwork that feels alive, authentic, and uniquely your own.
Afternoon Session: Paint the Beauty of Central Park
In the afternoon, feel the joy of creating artwork with the beauty of Central Park as your muse. Deepen your appreciation of the natural world as you learn to truly see color, texture, light, and movement in new ways. Spend the afternoon learning new multi-media artistic techniques using watercolor paint, acrylic paint, collage, and drawing materials. You’ll leave feeling renewed, creatively energized, deeply connected to yourself and a community of new friends, and inspired to continue your creative journey.
Your NYC Art Retreat Includes:
- Customized, encouraging one-on-one artistic instruction tailored to your needs, experience and goals
- Meaningful conversations and creative exercises exploring creativity, perfectionism, flow state, and your unique expression
- Relaxing guided meditations to unlock your authentic creativity
- Admission tickets to The MET
- In-depth, easy-to-follow instruction in drawing, painting and mixed-media art techniques
- Small-group experience with individualized attention
- 20-minute pre-retreat Zoom consultation with Rebecca to personalize your experience
- 1-hour post-retreat Zoom integration gathering two weeks later to encourage and support your ongoing creative practice
- A community of likeminded important strangers who will become friends!
- Walk away with personalized impressive artwork you’ll feel proud of
- Mental health benefits including increased relaxation, decreased anxiety and stress relief, and greater focus
Personalized Art Retreats: Create Art in New York City’s BEST Art Museums
Express your inner-artist in a one-of-a-kind New York City art retreat, a fulfilling creative adventure tailored just for YOU. Feel inspired as you achieve your artistic goals with personalized, one-on-one art instruction by a professional NYC artist educator who will guide you according to your unique needs, goals and artistic interests.
With New York City’s vibrant energy and cultural diversity as your muse, you’ll create expressive artwork in world-class art museums amongst famous art collections, architecture, parks, and gardens. Whether you’re yearning to deepen your artistic practice, learn specific artistic techniques, return to creativity after years of not touching art supplies, or you’re traveling to New York City and seeking a one-of-a-kind authentic experience, our art studio’s customized Art Retreats will be the highlight of your year!
To ignite your self-expression, our bespoke art retreats include locations such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim, The Museum of Natural History, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Central Park’s most beautiful parks and gardens. A colorful safari for your artistic senses, you’ll feel inspired to draw, sketch, create and paint like famous artists Monet and O’Keeffe did, out in the world! With New York City as your art studio playground, the unique inspiration of New York City will send your artistic self-expression soaring.
NYC Art Retreat Workshops
In this not-to-be-missed art retreat workshop in NYC, you will:
- Achieve your artistic learning goals while exploring new and unique artistic techniques combined with your authentic self-expression
- Feel nurtured and inspired with tailor-made, non-judgemental and inspiring one-on-one art instruction from an expert New York City professional Artist Educator
- Feel energized and inspired by New York City’s artworld, museums, architecture, diversity, culture, and natural beauty as your muse
- Master fundamental artistic techniques such as composition, personalized subject matter, shading, perspective, 3D effect, layering, multimedia materials, portraiture, figure drawing, landscape art and more!
- During May-October, learn how to draw, paint, and create artwork “En Plein Air” outdoors like famous artists have for centuries
- Discover and unlock your unique artistic style
- Receive the lasting benefits of art classes proven by science, including increased communication skills, enhanced relaxation, greater focus, increased self-esteem, boosted social skills and heightened academic success
Each private art retreat is a minimum of 1.5 hours. Please contact our office to inquire about group NYC art retreats or to add additional participants to your personalized retreat.
