Offerings

Offerings

TAP YOUR TRUTH

My mission is to honor your creative well-spring, to encourage you to believe that it is sacred, to help you experience it as your best resource, and to then provide you with tools to share the gifts that will rise forth as a result.

EVENTS

EVENTS

  

Advent Dark Journal

DECEMBER 1, 2024 - JANUARY 6, 2025

Online and in your home


Push back on the pressure to perform the holidays in picture perfect ways by sprinkling your days with creative gestures designed to inspire and comfort.

What if your holiday season felt sheltered?

Who would you be during the holiday season if you knew you had an oasis to return to, a place where you refuel?

Enrollment for Advent Dark Journal will begin on October 15, 2024. The workshop runs from Sunday, December 1, 2024 through January 6, 2025. An introductory event about Advent Dark Journal will take place in late October. Watch this space to register and learn more.

Advent Dark Journal gave me permission, in a sense, to pause more deeply. To lean into the artist of my soul. I am so deeply grateful for you. For your wisdom, for your warmth, for the fierceness of your soul, for your devotion, for all the ways you share your light.

Thank you so very much.

Love and gratitude,

CHARLYN

The workshop costs $310. This includes 6 weeks of lessons posted on the Kajabi learning platform & community sharing within that learning space. Expect to be inspired by poems, a weekly centering meditation, and small art projects.

A luscious package of carefully curated art supplies for three small book forms, collage, and rituals. Each package contains 6 envelopes of treasures to be opened in concert with the weekly lesson release. The package also contains contributions from a delectable group of artists.

A guide for materials you will need to gather will be sent upon registration. Simple art supplies with a few special items are all that are required.

This workshop follows the Moon and the tides of nature as winter comes to the Northern Hemisphere. It is not connected to any religious practice. Intended for people ages 16 years on up.

Advent Dark Journal is a way to navigate the holiday season to find your own sense of the sacred.

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Open Studio

with Suzi Banks Baum

Sunday, October 13th
From 1- 4 PM ET


Eco-dyed papers, inks, & handbound books for sale, along with plant dyed embroidery threads. All proceeds benefit American Red Cross & the Craft Emergency Relief Fund.

Park on the street & walk up the driveway

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Open Studio

with Suzi Banks Baum

Sunday, October 13th
From 1- 4 PM ET


Eco-dyed papers, inks, & handbound books for sale, along with plant dyed embroidery threads. All proceeds benefit American Red Cross & the Craft Emergency Relief Fund.

Park on the street & walk up the driveway

Download Poster
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BACKYARD ART CAMP

AUGUST 2025

My backyard in Great Barrington, MA!


Backyard Art Camp is an outdoor book art & ritual workshop in the Berkshires

Backyard Art Camp will take place in August 2025. The first session will be a book arts intensive from August 20-27th with one rest day. The second session will be three full days of colorful book art August 29/30/31. Please join Suzi’s mailing list for news of enrollment.

Link to frequently asked questions is here.

Backyard Art Camp September 2024

Photo credit to Pearl Elsbach

"Camp is sacred, essential, delightful, expansive, generative, meaningful, and such a messy-in-the-paint good time! This was a return to a familiar place, both in the magic that is Hollenbeck, and the familiarity of sisterhood, mudra flow, process, and celebrations with alumni sisterhood. Camp plants seeds in my heart - they root while I make paste paper - then they bloom all year long as I return to what we've created here in my daily practice." ‍

KARLEE FAIN

All supplies & printed instructions included in Camp fee. Also includes libations and bug juice.

You cover housing & travel & lunch. Look for rentals/hotels in the Great Barrington, MA area. Closest airports: Albany, NY & Hartford, CT.

Public transportation from the New York City & Boston area is convenient. My home is three blocks from Main Street, Route 7.

This program is for you if you...
  1. comfortable working outdoors in all weather
  2. want to nourish your attention and work with your hands-totally no tech situation here
  3. want to replace the nasty messages you got about how messy or wrong your art making is
  4. are an established artist seeking to fine tune your skills
  5. want to explore mixed media techniques, learn about inhabiting a journal, and are willing to play at the intersection of literary and book art.
  6. yearn for creative community and sanctuary where your creative expression will be valued above all else.

Mingle Magazine ran a gorgeous article about

Backyard Art Camp.

HERE IS THE PREVIEW

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Visible Mending

WITH SUZI BANKS BAUM

November 2, 2024
Saturday, 1-4 PM

152 Main Street. Great Barrington

THE SIDE PROJECT GALLERY

Join artist Suzi Banks Baum for an afternoon of peaceable stitching at the Side Project Gallery. Suzi will teach simple stitch techniques and help you design a colorful way to repair your garments. Plant dyed and other collected fabric scraps along with embroidery floss, scissors, and needles will be provided.

Clik here to register
Visible Mending

WITH SUZI BANKS BAUM

November 2, 2024
Saturday, 1-4 PM

152 Main Street. Great Barrington

THE SIDE PROJECT GALLERY

Join artist Suzi Banks Baum for an afternoon of peaceable stitching at the Side Project Gallery. Suzi will teach simple stitch techniques and help you design a colorful way to repair your garments. Plant dyed and other collected fabric scraps along with embroidery floss, scissors, and needles will be provided.

Clik here to register

Tickets: sliding scale $35-45
Contact: [email protected]

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