The Artist Way: 12-Week Creative Cluster Program

About the Program:

This 12-week Creative Cluster Program supports participants in recovering and strengthening their creative selves within a supportive, non-hierarchical community. Using The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron as a shared framework, participants engage in weekly group gatherings, small-cluster sharing, and individual creative practices.

The program is designed as a hybrid experience, with four in-person gatherings and virtual check-ins (optional). This structure allows for meaningful face-to-face connection while maintaining accessibility and flexibility. This is a peer-led, egalitarian program. There are no accredited teachers—only fellow participants, including facilitators, engaging fully in the process. The work itself serves as the guide. Respect, compassion, and creative autonomy are central, and participants are encouraged to honor their own pace and inner guidance while sharing and witnessing within small clusters.

What to Expect:

Participants should be prepared for weekly tasks and independent creative practices throughout the 12 weeks, including Morning Pages and Artist Dates. The process is private and personal, emphasizing growth through lived experience rather than critique or feedback.

Participants are asked to commit to the full 12-week series. Please review dates carefully before registering.

*Spaces are limited. Last day to register for the program is Friday, January 16th, 5PM

In-Person Program Dates:

Thursday, January 22, 5:30 – 7PM
Thursday, February 19, 5:30 - 7PM
Thursday, March 12, 5:30 - 7PM
Thursday, April 9, 5:30 - 7PM

About the Facilitators:

Laura Naples (b. 1979) is an artist based in Hudson, Ohio. Laura’s work explores the energy of wonder in the natural world and objects shaped by human hands.

A former graphic designer, dancer, and calligraphy artist, Laura senses the subtleties of form, rhythm, and line.

She applies diluted acrylic washes to canvas and paper, allowing water and gravity to diffuse pigments into gradient textures. Contrasts unfold across stances of surrender and intention as she lays gestural marks and tilts the painting’s surface; then, accents alignments with linework.

Laura cultivates rituals of meditation, movement, and inquiry that are fostered, infused, and embodied in her work.

Meaghan Reed As an artist I have long been inspired by the natural organic world growing around me. I am perpetually awed by the complexity of design found in a single bloom and struck with wonder and humility at the narrative of the seasons. These systems around us dance in perfect harmony and are dependent upon their rhythm. Within nature there is a hope and solidity found in consistency and order. There is beauty to be found within the intricacy of design that is contingent upon the delicate arrangement. Vibrant color declares goodness and subtle lines offer peace. The life and growth found within the natural world around us is not directed by a series of accidents or coincidences. There is assurance and stability to be found in its cadence.
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All of this assures me there is something greater to be claimed in this life
While they are varied, elements of nature's beauty surround us all. It is universal, global,
vast, wide, complete. It is not restricted, limited or exclusive based on wealth, status, age,
gender, or ethnicity. This extraordinary aesthetic embraces and blankets our world and all are invited to partake in its splendor. My hope as an artist is that in a world that suffers from pain, loss, fear, anxiety, depression, division, and inequality that this literal common ground would be a place to connect, build relationship and unity despite what can easily separate one human from another.

Abstracting elements of design from nature is where my process begins. Careful study
and consideration is taken for each subject I select. The work is not intended to be an exact
replication but a feeble impression of its brilliance and complexity. I'm inspired by form, line, color, and repetition. Layers of paint, plexi acrylic and wood are used to create a sense of space both physical and visual. Mimicking the natural secrete spaces found in the undergrowth of the forest floor and grassy fields. While wildflowers are full of color variations and delicate lines I am only able to capture a small portion of their adornment, but it is these tiny details that fuel my concepts and drive me to explore them more closely.

About Peg's Foundation & Gallery:

Peg’s Foundation is a national leader in mental health philanthropy. Based in Hudson, Ohio, it is committed to improving the lives of people with serious mental illness through creative partnerships and community engagement. Peg’s Gallery, a tribute to founder Margaret “Peg” Morgan — a fashion lover and mental health advocate — is a space where arts serve as a vehicle for healing, expression and societal change

For more information, visit pegsgallery.org and follow on social media @pegsgalleryhudson