Curiosity Studio is a creative learning studio that uses art making as a way to get to know yourself and others.
We invite participants to come into the space with curiosity and pay attention to the parts of themselves that can be overlooked in their day-to-day lives. At times, a class will be a total exploration of a medium. Other times, we will emphasize the process and have no end product to frame on the wall.
We practice from an art therapy and trauma informed lens that encourage self and community care. Our aim is to consider placemaking and art spaces as a community resource for mental health support. We believe that art has the power to connect members of the community in ways that words alone may not. This ethic informs the classes we choose to run and the events that we commit to. It is from this place that we ask partners to move with us towards more accessible, informed and liberated spaces.
We are multifaceted people that are most creative when accessing our whole selves. In exploring our creative process, we always must pay attention and care to our entire spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional selves.
We aim to build approachable, relational, honest and safe classrooms. We want our creative space to be rooted in connections that expand into our neighborhoods and beyond. When we live in community and celebrate diversity, we experience rich and fulfilling relationships.
The creative process is about active curiosity: exploration, experimentation, trying, messes, and trying again. It's nice to finish things but we hope this space is more about play and less about the final product.
We want everyone to have an equal voice in our space. It is our expectation for ourselves and the community we teach to maintain a respectful, gracious, kind, inquisitive, and forgiving space. This is our hope for how we treat our work too.
We prioritize mindfulness in our consumption as a business: reusing whenever possible and being smart consumers when it is not available. Our goal of sustainability is woven within our business model as a means of inspiration and honoring the resources we have.
Food brings people together and we want to be together. We also believe we do our best work when we’re not hangry. Each class will have snacks. If you have allergies, let us know.