2025 Summer Workshop Program

Ruby T Ritual Embrace: A Painting & Drawing Laboratory July 27 to August 1, 2025 Time 9 am - 12 pm Discipline: Multimedia Open To All On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options

Bringing ritual into your art practice is a sure-fire strategy for turning up the desire dial and getting into a flow state. Through ritual exercises in the Provincetown landscape, as well as in our FAWC studio, we will strengthen our respective practices, spark exciting and unexpected moves in our work, and nourish the creation of individual projects in painting and drawing. For inspiration and guidance, we will look to artists like Torkwase Dyson, Hilma af Klint, Ana Mendieta, and Betye Saar, and writers like Audre Lorde, CAConrad, and Demian DinéYazhi’. Solo and collective actions will include painting moving water at the beach, drawing while walking in the forest, and the crafting of a personal art-supportive ritual. This workshop is for artists of all levels and disciplines, who want a more enchanted and embodied art life.

This workshop will include excursions outside.

Biography

Ruby T is an artist, educator, and organizer. Her work is an experiment in translating fantasy to reality, and she is fueled by anger, desire, and magic. Rooted in drawing, her practice has offshoots in painting, performance, comics, fibers, and video. She has exhibited and performed at Western Exhibitions, Roots & Culture, and Iceberg Projects in Chicago; Hales Gallery in New York; and Bass & Reiner in San Francisco. Her comics and illustrations have been published by Half Letter Press, and are in the collection of the Thomas J Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She lives and works in Provincetown, MA on Nauset and Wampanoag land.