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Bad Art is for anyone and everyone. It’s truly a simple practice that can be incredibly healing. Each class, we get people making marks on the page, writing with a wild mind, moving their bodies with a focus on breathing, opening the body, and getting present. We direct you to participate in exercises that trick the mind into fluidity.
Each class has a main assignment. We support participants to purposely do a bad job at our assignments, allowing ourselves to make something terrible, boring, stupid, ugly, weird, offensive, repulsive, and unappealing. This is the portal to permission that allows the left brain—analytic, controlling, and comparing—to relax. When we allow ourselves to create from an internal experience of sensations/impulses/awareness/desires, the right brain takes over and there is access to embodied expression. It can be pleasurable, relieving, and freeing.
Bad Art classes are a chance to feel our inner child, our internalized critic, the blocked aspects of ourselves, and get to know these parts of ourselves without judgement or pressure. This helps restore the flow of expression.
Authentic expression heals layers of shame and hiding; it brings us into a place of play and grace that we long for. It is especially healing when we do this process in community with others who are taking risks alongside us.
Bad Art is for anyone and everyone. It’s truly a simple practice that can be incredibly healing. Each class, we get people making marks on the page, writing with a wild mind, moving their bodies with a focus on breathing, opening the body, and getting present. We direct you to participate in exercises that trick the mind into fluidity.
Each class has a main assignment. We support participants to purposely do a bad job at our assignments, allowing ourselves to make something terrible, boring, stupid, ugly, weird, offensive, repulsive, and unappealing. This is the portal to permission that allows the left brain—analytic, controlling, and comparing—to relax. When we allow ourselves to create from an internal experience of sensations/impulses/awareness/desires, the right brain takes over and there is access to embodied expression. It can be pleasurable, relieving, and freeing.
Bad Art classes are a chance to feel our inner child, our internalized critic, the blocked aspects of ourselves, and get to know these parts of ourselves without judgement or pressure. This helps restore the flow of expression.
Authentic expression heals layers of shame and hiding; it brings us into a place of play and grace that we long for. It is especially healing when we do this process in community with others who are taking risks alongside us.