Drawing Meditation Workshop: Mindful Creativity: Maureen O’Neill – G26070303
An immersive week of mindful creativity with Maureen O’Neill
Set in the stunning landscape of the high desert, Ghost Ranch offers a beautiful and sacred space to slow down, breathe, and encounter both ourselves and the natural world around us. The Drawing Meditation Workshop is a weeklong immersive experience that combines guided meditation, breath awareness, intuitive mark-making, and slow-seeing. Through creative investigations using pastel, charcoal, and graphite, participants will explore drawing as a meditative, healing, and transformative practice.
Each session begins with guided meditation, breathing, or mantra repetition to center attention and release expectations. From this state of awareness, we’ll move into a variety of drawing approaches—observation, abstraction, and memory—using charcoal, graphite, and soft pastel. Writing reflections and group discussions will deepen understanding and help integrate the experience.
Designed for all levels of experience, this workshop emphasizes process over product—the now rather than the later—inviting participants to reconnect with their intuitive spirit and the living landscape of Ghost Ranch.
All levels of experience are welcome.
Instructor
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Maureen T O'NeillMaureen O’Neill grew up in Holyoke, Massachusetts and received her B.F.A. in Painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her M.F.A. in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. She is the director of exhibitions and educational programming for the Barton College Art Galleries and Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Art, Barton College. She was the recipient of the Lincoln Financial Faculty Member of the Year Award in 2021. In addition to her classes at Barton College, Maureen leads workshops in drawing meditation and pastel drawing at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, the Wilson Arts Center in Wilson, NC and Saint Anne’s Chapel in Tarboro, NC.