Art & Resilience: A Workshop in Drawing and Watercolor
Cathleen Cohen and Jeff Thomsen
September 11, 2025
Come as you are—and pick up a pencil and brush. In this gentle, joy-filled workshop, we’ll explore drawing and watercolor painting as pathways to resilience, reflection, and connection.
Whether you’re a curious beginner or a seasoned artist, this is a safe space to experiment, express, and simply be—in community with others. Together, we’ll explore still lifes, view inspiring artwork, and share in the creative process. No pressure. No perfection. Just the freedom to see differently, feel deeply, and respond to the world around and within us.
Art has a quiet way of helping us hold what words cannot. Through creative exploration, we rediscover our strength, our perspective—and our shared humanity.
All are welcome. All you need is openness, and maybe a splash of curiosity.
Facilitators
Cathleen Cohen
Cathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA. She created the We the Poets program for children from diverse cultural and faith communities (www.theartwell.org) and has taught students and educators in the USA and Israel. She teaches poetry and painting to adults through local venues, including Ritualwell…
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Cathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA. She created the We the Poets program for children from diverse cultural and faith communities (www.theartwell.org) and has taught students and educators in the USA and Israel. She teaches poetry and painting to adults through local venues, including Ritualwell…
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Jeff Thomsen
I paint representationally and mostly in oils, both scenes observed and those imagined. I am sometimes inspired by music, often by animals, and always by the atmospheric play of light falling throughout the day and drifting away at night. I like a sense of narrative and feeling of place and…
Learn more about Jeff Thomsen
I paint representationally and mostly in oils, both scenes observed and those imagined. I am sometimes inspired by music, often by animals, and always by the atmospheric play of light falling throughout the day and drifting away at night. I like a sense of narrative and feeling of place and…
Learn more about Jeff Thomsen