WEEKEND INTENSIVES
Workshops in Perception, Material & Expanded Practice
Weekend Intensives at The Sky School of Art are short-format studio experiences focused on shifts in perception, material exploration, and creative process.
Each workshop offers a concentrated encounter with a specific method, system, or material approach—designed to open new ways of seeing, making, and engaging with artistic practice.
These sessions are open to all levels unless otherwise specified.
Each workshop offers a concentrated encounter with a specific method, system, or material approach—designed to open new ways of seeing, making, and engaging with artistic practice.
These sessions are open to all levels unless otherwise specified.
CORE APPROACH
Rather than focusing on skill progression, Weekend Intensives emphasize:
perceptual awareness
material experimentation
embodied creative process
intuitive and structured making
breaking habitual approaches to image-making
Each workshop functions as a standalone experience.
WEEKEND INTENSIVES - New workshop dates will be posted on the Register page as they become available.
Unblocking Perception: Creative Release Workshop
Every Other Saturday from June - October | 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Session Dates: July 11th, July 25th, Aug 8th, Aug 29th, Sept 19th, October 17th, October 24th
Max 4 participants
A guided studio workshop focused on loosening control and breaking fixed patterns of image-making.
Through fast exercises, intuitive drawing, and material experimentation, participants are supported in shifting out of overthinking and into direct, process-based engagement with materials.
This workshop is about release, immediacy, and reconnecting with creative flow.
Mandala Practice: Drawing the Inner Field
A contemplative drawing workshop centered on repetition, symmetry, and circular structure.
Participants work with mandala-based forms as a way of focusing attention, slowing perception, and exploring drawing as a meditative and structured practice.
This workshop emphasizes presence, rhythm, and sustained visual attention.
Sacred Geometry: The Architecture of Seeing
A studio-based exploration of geometric systems, proportion, and spatial order in visual practice.
Participants engage with foundational geometric principles as both analytical structure and perceptual framework, translating systems of order into drawing and composition.
This workshop connects structure, perception, and visual intelligence.
Chromatic Embodiment Series
Intermittent Saturdays from July - October | 9:00 – 12:00 AM
Session Dates: July 11th (Magenta), July 25th (Red), Aug 8th (Orange), August 29th (Yellow), Sept 19th (Green), October 3rd(Blue/ Cyan), October 24th (Purple/Indigo)
Max 6 participants
A 7-part Saturday morning series exploring colour as lived perception and embodied experience.
Each session is dedicated to one colour:
Magenta, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan/Blue, Purple.
Each workshop includes:
- guided movement practice in relation to colour perception
- sensory and environmental immersion
- intention setting and reflective journaling
- studio exploration using pigment, ink, pastel, paint, and mixed media
- optional colour-based dressing to enhance perceptual immersion
Each session treats colour not as theory, but as experience—something sensed, inhabited, and translated through material practice.
Silicone Form & Material Casting
A hands-on material workshop exploring mould-making, replication, and surface translation.
Participants work with silicone and casting processes to investigate how form can be transformed, repeated, and reinterpreted through material processes.
This workshop focuses on material intelligence and physical transformation.
FORMAT & STRUCTURE
- Weekend workshops (typically Saturday or Sunday sessions)
- Open to adults of all levels unless otherwise noted
- Materials provided unless specified
- Small group format for individual guidance and support
PHILOSOPHY OF PRACTICE
Weekend Intensives are part of a larger system of studio learning at The Sky School of Art.
While Core Programs focus on sustained development over time, Weekend Intensives offer concentrated entry points into specific aspects of perception, material work, and creative process.
Together, they form a continuous field of practice:
structured learning, experimental exploration, and expanded seeing.
Located at Metro Laurier, Montreal
