This is a creativity-promoting Meetup centered around a book called "The Artist's Way". The book outlines a 12-week series of exercises to promote your creativity, of whatever flavor it might be, and to help you over whatever bumps you might be having with it. We add to the book by meeting in small groups to go through the sequence together, to congratulate each other on work accomplished, to commiserate on work not accomplished, to nudge each other a little from day to day, and to generally give support to whatever’s happening with your creative work.

The purpose of the Meetup as a whole is to organize these small groups. About one new group a month is created; group-creation happens whenever we have enough new people in a given area. So far most of the groups have been in Oakland/Berkeley, with a few in San Francisco, and one in the Peninsula. We do have some scattered interest out in Contra Costa and up in Marin; hoping to get quorums there still. Occasionally people join into existing groups. We are also talking about organizing some "graduate" groups, where people go on beyond the Artist's Way.

In this Artist's Way Meetup we have no professional facilitators and there is no charge at all for participating; our study groups are all purely self-organized and self-directed.

There were a few "fee" events or groups in the past (and probably be will be in the future) led by professional artists, but those were and will always be clearly identified as "paid" group events.

Please post your ideas & encouragements freely to the whole group; and in general your help with doing the organizing would be very welcome.

More details at http://artistsway.meetup.com/220/about.

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  • June 6, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 9 Artists Way members attended

    Artist's Way workshop group in San Francisco

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  • April 17, 2011 at 6:00 PM, 2 Artists Way members attended

    Let's make art in a Cafe!

    They rated it 1.00 1.001 (1 ratings)

    Come for an evening of CREATION with other women in a relaxed cafe with over 40 seating spaces (chairs and tables). Enjoy wine, beer, coffee and tea while you make art... Learn more

  • March 20, 2011 at 6:00 PM, 4 Artists Way members attended

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    They rated it 5.00 5.002 (2 ratings)

  • March 1, 2011 at 7:30 PM, 4 Artists Way members attended

    Established Women's AW group accepting new members
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  • February 22, 2011 at 7:30 PM, 2 Artists Way members attended

    Established Women's AW group accepting new members
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    January 25 at 12:40 PM
    Emily J. White
    "Hello, I'm interested in joining this group, and I'm interested in joining any group that has meetings in SF or the East Bay. warm regards, Emily"
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    Cecily Cecily RSVPed Yes for Best Year Yet 2012
    January 21 at 10:18 PM
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    Jan 22
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    Sunday 6:00 PM at Au Coquelet Cafe
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    January 21 at 10:17 PM
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    January 16 at 11:02 AM
    Zheng Yang
    "I love painting since 6 years old. Object, Figures and Landscapes are all I want to memory on papers, fabulous life with painting."
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    Gabriel Palmer Gabriel Palmer joined
    January 16 at 12:28 AM
    Gabriel Palmer
    "Love this book! It was the best single resource for getting my creativity flowing. The challenge is being a forward-thinking creative individual in a backward society. Everything depends on creativity and yet all are opposed to it at the same time!"
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    Cecily Cecily RSVPed Yes for Best Year Yet 2012
    January 11 at 8:13 PM
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    Jan 22
    Best Year Yet 2012
    Sunday 6:00 PM at Au Coquelet Cafe
    2 attending
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    Latonia Dixon Latonia Dixon joined
    January 9 at 9:11 PM
    Latonia Dixon
    "I would love to create with other people. I am an artist, poet, and sometimes a crystal bowl player and singer. I live in the San Francisco BayArea."
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    January 4 at 9:09 PM
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San Francisco, CA 94130
Founded Aug 16, 2007
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