MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – On Saturday, Dec. 16, the Resilience Project features “Soul Painting” with Sage Abella.

The class will take place from noon to 5 p.m. at the Middletown Art Center.

Adults of all ages and children ages 12 and up are invited to join one or many Resilience workshop sessions.

All levels of experience from novice to professional are welcome to enjoy these excellent and inspiring classes for just $5 per session.

“People learn to access their intuition in many ways, whether through meditation, spending time in nature, bicycling, drinking a comforting cup of morning coffee on the porch, playing music, or dancing. In Soul Painting we tap into our feelings and intuition through the act of painting,” explained Abella. “Soul Painting is a highly felt process that gets us in touch with the quiet part of ourselves that connects to wisdom and direction.”

Abella’s classroom welcomes you with bright colored paints, jars of brushes and big pieces of white paper suggesting endless possibilities.

“We meet up with a handful of others who are there to paint, too. Some have never picked up a brush in their life, some paint all the time. The beauty of the class is that it doesn’t matter because what we are all really doing is opening up a conversation with our intuition and everyone has an intuition,” Abella said.

Sponsored in part by the California Arts Council and Adventist Health, the Resilience Project offers low cost ($5) workshops in photography, poetry/written and spoken word, painting and printmaking that cycle through the first through fourth Saturdays of each month until May 2018.

The project will culminate in exhibits county-wide and a chapbook of writings and images produced by participants in the workshops.

Bring a lunch or snacks, painting clothes or a smock.

To learn more about Soul Painting and other Resilience classes visit www.middeltownartcenter.org/resilience.

The next Resilience class will be “Printmaking ~ Etching II” on Saturday, Dec. 30, from noon to 5 p.m.

Please preregister for all Resilience classes as space is limited.