Creative Renaissance: Remembering Your Artistic Voice

In this deeply personal and inspiring new online program, multidisciplinary artist Linda Plaisted shares her creative renaissance after tragedy and the journey back to artistic expression through photography, collage, and mixed media arts. Together, Linda and her workshop participants explore creativity not only as a form of artistic practice but as a tool for healing, resilience, and transformation.

Blending personal storytelling, creative guidance, and practical reflection, the two sessions center on reconnecting with artistic purpose and rediscovering the “why” behind the work. Together, we explore ways to move through fear, perfectionism, creative shutdown, and self-doubt, while embracing experimentation, vulnerability, and play as necessary parts of the creative process.

Through immersive exercises, reflective prompts, and group discussions, we consider how meaningful work often emerges through risk-taking, curiosity, and the willingness to make imperfect work along the way. Linda shares how daily creative devotion helped transform grief and emotional upheaval into a renewed and prolific artistic practice rooted in authenticity and personal voice.

Using examples from several of her layered narrative series, Linda walks through her creative process from ideation and experimentation to completed photographic and mixed media works. Alongside photography, we explore how collage, painting, and drawing can expand visual storytelling and deepen conceptual development within a body of work.

At the core is the belief that vulnerability and honesty within the creative process not only transform the work itself but also create connection, healing, and possibility. Through reflection, conversation, and creative exploration, space opens to reconnect with artistic instinct, creative courage, and the act of making without fear.