Winter retreats at Red Clay are weekend intensive skill sharing sessions. They are intended to build both individual practice and a sense of connection, community and friendship within each discipline. All participants are expected to contribute to meals during the retreat and to keeping the place clean and organized. A fee is charged to help with upkeep of the facility and basic supplies.
Drawing Retreats ($25)
Drawing retreats will be held the last weekend of each month from January to April. The Red Clay Drawing Retreat is an intensive weekend of drawing in a beautiful solar house and property in rural Nova Scotia. Artists collectively prepare meals, draw and work together, participating in 10 life-drawing sessions throughout the weekend. The February 22 drawing retreat will be a mixed life drawing and sculpture (clay) session. To facilitate this Saturday sessions will be longer poses to accommodate sculpture.
Drawing retreat schedule
January 25-27
February 22-24 (also will include sculpture, see below)
March 29-31
April 26-28
If you are interested, please join Red Clay Drawing on facebook. You can email redclaydrawing@gmail.com if you have questions or to register. Red Clay is located in Nova Scotia on the shore of the Bay of Fundy (50 km west of Truro on route #2).
Other Red Clay Winter Retreats
Creative dreaming retreat– February 1-3
Radio sounds, audio retreat– February 8-10
Stained glass window fabrication– March 1-3
Common sense forestry– Jan 18-20