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OPEN & FREE to the publicDate: Thursday, June 18, 2026
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 pm
ANA Studio, Suite A
300 N. 2nd Street
Rogers, AR 72756
Join ANA for this free interactive art making session. Bring your watercolor or acrylic painting supplies or use those provided.
Instead of asking:
“What should I paint?” Somatic Art making asks:
“What am I sensing, feeling, breathing, holding, releasing, or moving through?”
The artwork becomes a record of your full body experience — breath, tension, emotion, rhythm, memory, mood, and movement.
I don’t use this every time I make art, but I hope to use it to discover recurring personal art going forward.
Objective:
Somatic art practices can profoundly influence an artist’s work because they shift the creative process from intellectual decision-making toward embodied experience. Instead of beginning with analysis, planning, or representation, the artist starts with sensation, movement, breath, emotion, rhythm, and physical awareness.
This often changes both the process and the final visual language of the work.
Artists who engage in somatic practices frequently notice:
more intuitive mark-making
increased emotional honesty
freer use of gesture and movement
greater sensitivity to color and texture
less fear of “mistakes”
deeper connection to personal symbolism
more dynamic compositions and layering
Because the body becomes part of the creative process, paintings often feel more alive, energetic, and emotionally resonant. Repeated gestures, pressure changes, scraping, layering, and movement patterns can become a kind of visual record of emotional and physical experience.
Somatic practices can also help artists move beyond perfectionism or overthinking. By focusing on sensation rather than outcome, artists may discover unexpected imagery, recurring forms, or personal visual languages that emerge naturally over time.
For abstract and semi-abstract artists especially, somatic approaches can deepen expression by allowing intuition, memory, and bodily awareness to guide decisions about color, space, rhythm, and composition.
Supplies used will include mixed media paper, paint brushes, paint palette, pencils, markers, watercolor or acrylic paints, pencil, pastels, markers, alcohol Ink and water.
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300 N. 2nd Street, Rogers, AR, United States, Arkansas 72756
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