Wellspring Retreats provide opportunities for the mother artist to intuitively foster and cultivate her own creative process in a restful nurturing community. To be renewed in her pursuit and vocation, in a space of wonder, contemplation, and joy.
We welcome women of all ages and stages of their artistic life and motherhood journey to gather in unique settings where essential rest is accessed through exploring the creative process, engaging in uninterrupted times of prayer and reflection, and connecting with a dynamic community of creators. Wellspring Mother Artist Retreats offer refreshment and inspiration, helping women explore their creative process, their faith, and their call as mothers and artists.
Set in contented environments of natural and architectural beauty, we offer retreats with open studio workspaces, secluded areas for reflection, and restful spaces for ultimate relaxation. We offer the opportunity to engage through alluring art materials, inspiring literature, gentle prompts, invitations to group discussions or collaboration, and compelling artist conversations. Excellent catered refreshments are provided throughout, including a special community dinner to commemorate the gathering. Moments to gather are scheduled but not required of the artist.
Wellspring Retreats are open to all women, ages 18 & up, whether you are a working mother artist or a mother who wishes to tap into her creative potential.
Space will be limited in order to sustain the intimacy and personal attention at the heart of the Wellspring Mother Artist Project. When spaces fill up, we will create a waiting list for a spot in a future retreat or if a spot becomes available.
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Project Partners
We are so grateful to all of our Project Partners who’s support, from helping spread the word to gifting resources & materials is helping make this project a beautiful and engaging source for women creatives everywhere:
Plough Quarterly is a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. Bold, hope-filled, and down-to-earth, it features thought-provoking articles, commentary, interviews, short fiction, book reviews, poetry and art. Each issue brings together essential voices from many traditions to give you fresh insights on a core theme such as peacemaking, biblical justice, children and family, building community, man and woman, nature and the environment, nonviolence, or simple living.
MILKED is an arts publication that examines the undertones of the maternal figure and seeks to bring art that explores the maternal experience to the forefront of culture. Each issue’s theme centers around a pre-existing topic within art history and filters them through the lens of the maternal nature.
Mothering Spirit is a new project spearheaded by mother & author Laura Kelly Fanucci. It is a gathering place to explore parenting and spirituality. With storytelling shaped by the liturgical seasons, their collaborative, ecumenical project will offer weekly essays and prayers from diverse voices on motherhood – plus virtual retreats, e-books, resources, and creative ways to connect our stories with God’s story.
Image fosters contemporary art and writing that grapple with the mystery of being human by curating, cultivating, convening, and celebrating work that explores religious faith and faces spiritual questions. Image is animated by the vision to be a vibrant thread in the fabric of culture, contributing to mainstream literary and artistic communities by demonstrating the vitality of contemporary art and literature invigorated by religious faith.
Be A Heart is a brand and community that works toward heartfelt humanism by creating and offering beauty, experiencing beauty and coming together in the midst of beauty; for it is beauty that will resurrect the world.
Dappled Things is a journal of ideas, art, and faith for those who find that hope springs eternal. For those who see the other side and strike out for it. For those who live, as fictionist J.F. Powers hinted, “with one foot in this world and one in the next.”
The Collegium Institute was founded by faculty, alumni, students, & friends of the University of Pennsylvania, as an independent, academic community with a catholic vision: that is, it draws mainstream learning into conversation with the Catholic intellectual tradition & cultivates reflection on the catholic, or universal, questions that animate every human life.
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Did you know you can
help send a Mom on a
WELLSPRING retreat?
We have included a "Support a Mother Artist" donation ticket on our registration pages. We wanted to create a small fund from which we can offer scholarships to women who might need assistance with the registration cost. Your anonymous gift, in any amount, will generously support a Mother Artist to come on retreat! Below are buttons that will take you the Philadelphia Retreat registration page and the Minnesota Retreat registration page, feel free to donate on one page or a little on both!
For questions regarding this scholarship or the retreat, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at wellspringmotherart@gmail.com
