Creative Play: Repetition as Meditation
Saturday, 6/13/2026 | 2:00 - 3:00pm
San Francisco Public Library
Noe Valley Branch
451 Jersey Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Use watercolor paints to get into a mindful flow in this relaxing art workshop. With the art of Alma Thomas as inspiration, we will create patterns of dots, lines, and simple shapes. Painting predictable shapes allows your thinking brain to quiet and the repetition helps to calm your mind. The focus will be on allowing yourself to experiment and play, not on technique, and so no experience is necessary.
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Image: Alma Thomas
Tiptoe Through the Tulips, 1969,
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Creative Play: Inspired by SFMOMA
Friday, 7/17/2026 | 4:00 - 5:00pm
San Francisco Public Library
Ocean View Branch
345 Randolph Street
San Francisco, CA 94132
This hands-on art workshop is all about exploring your creativity through color, line, and form with art prompts inspired by abstract art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The focus will be on enjoying the creative process and the tactile experience of making art, not on specific techniques or an end product. No experience is necessary, and all are welcome!
Image:
Helen Frankenthaler
Interior Landscape, 1964
SFMOMA
Creative Play: Postcard Collage
Sunday, 8/9/2026 | 3:00 - 4:00pm
San Francisco Public Library
3150 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Come play with paper and get creative with collage. We will explore the art of collage using vintage images for inspiration to transform the mundane into something unique. Collage is all about being playful and exploring creative ideas, and the simple exercise of arranging can be such a fun and meditative process. No experience is necessary and all are welcome to come cut, tear, and create.
Creative Play: Nature as Muse
Wednesday, 8/12/2026 | 2:00 - 3:00pm
San Francisco Public Library
1550 Scott Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Explore your creativity in this torn paper art workshop inspired by nature and the Abstract Expressionist art of Joan Mitchell. The focus will be on enjoying the creative process and the tactile experience of art making, not on technique or an end product. No experience is necessary and all are welcome!
Image by Simon Berger on unsplash.com
