You’re not just here to dream of writing your book/ painting that career-pivoting series/ launching your photography business….
You’re here to actually fucking do it.
Ideally, with your head thrown back in laughter, feeling deeply pleased with yourself, a deep knowing in your gut that you were MADE to create & share as freely as this.
a creative audacity mentorship & cohort for artists
You’re here because you wanna feel satisfied at the end of each day, glowing with pride about the work you just made,
showing off photos on your phone to your partner on your artwork’s latest updates.
You wanna wake up with butterflies, excited to jump in to next steps of your work. You wanna bask in the delight of a job well done.
You’re here to romance and to be romanced by life, goddammit!
The problem is: along the way, you’ve picked up the compulsion of Needing to be Good.
You felt like you couldn’t just paint pretty flowers, you had to paint hyper-realistic portraits!
You couldn’t just enjoy writing your book; you had to pen an award-winning project!
You couldn’t just show up online and yap about life and also tell people to buy your art; you had to become The Most Professional Person on the Internet.
Along the way, your creative work started to feel heavy, stifled.
All that pressure sucks the joy from the process. Life and your art (and you, yourself!!) start to lose some of their shine.
Mary Oliver said it best:
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
It’s time for a creative re-wilding.
A period of unlearning and unhooking from all the ideas and masks you thought you had to take on in order to belong and be successful as an artist/ a woman/ a queer person in this world.
Free from all that which Is Not You, you will build a cocoon of safety, and gently, softly, let yourself become goo.
From that place, you will begin to create anew:
the art you really want to make/ the ideas that are uniquely yours/ the dream you’ve been carrying but not acting on will slowly start to emerge.
In the process, a more honest, audacious, playful and creative you will emerge too.
Your efforts will feel different because they will no longer be fueled by striving for validation from a world that wants to shrink and silence you.
You’ll be propelled by a force from within.
Glowing from the inside out, you and your art and your one wild & precious life will be made better because of it.
This is not another course you’ll never finish.
In fact, this isn’t a course at all!
It’s a personalized mentorship and artist cohort that combines 1:1 support, creative community, live-teaching calls and real-time feedback,
all designed to help you move beyond the never-ending-time-loop of:
“Eh, I’ll launch my art-subscription next week…”
And into the powerful reality of:
“Ahh I just hit publish, and someone already signed up!!”
This space is for women, non-binary & queer artists with a specific creative project, goal or dream that won’t leave you alone:
a creative business you keep meaning to launch but the “perfect time” never comes
a manuscript you barely started drafting begging you to bring it fully to life
a new body of art burning a hole in your chest but it’s nothing like the work you usually make, so you keep talking yourself out of it
a desire to be the kind of person to regularly fills the sketchbook, books the trip — who lives with more daring and delight
Who this is for:
You know this work important, but every time you feel the discomfort of the actual process — the doubt, the fear, the impulse to cringe — you run the other direction faster than a bombshell on Love Island asking for a kiss.
The discomfort isn’t a sign that anything is wrong; it’s a sign you’re carrying too much alone and need support.
How it works:
1. Apply!
Applications help me ensure a diverse and complementary group of artists.
2. If accepted, you’ll receive a message within the week with a link to enroll.
Your spot is saved for 72 hours, so be ready!
3. Once enrolled, you’ll begin receiving correspondence on next steps!
This is where the work begins but also where you stop expecting yourself to do it all alone.
What you get inside:
Three 1:1 calls with me, up to 90 minutes.
These deep dives get right to the heart of what you’re working toward and what’s holding your back.
Calls vary based on you and your needs, but most start with a check-in and grounding. You’ll share what you want support with, and I’ll offer real-time teaching and intuitive transmissions. I might guide you through a personalized visualization or offer a specific tool or practice.
Each time, you’ll come with questions and frustrations and leave with clarity, inspiration and next steps.
A private community Discord
A place to ask questions, get my eyes on your work, celebrate wins and be supported in community between calls.
Monthly creative play dates.
Think: body-doubling for artists.
1-2x a month, we will gather as a community for some creative “co-working,” where meeting your creative edges with curiosity and persistence gets easier and easier because you’re no longer doing it alone!
Live community calls: twice a month, we meet as a community for experiential workshops, classes and “spotlight-style” group coaching sessions..
There is a deep healing that happens when you repeatedly allow yourself to be witnessed and supported in a creative community of your peers.
These sessions shift will change how you experience yourself and your art, leaving you inspired and energized, emboldened to act on behalf of your dreams and desires.
Lite, self-paced online resources.
This is not a course. The heart of this program is personalization, and sometimes, when I notice common needs and themes, I will create and add content to your bad grl art club member’s resource portal.
Things you might expect to find in this space are short lessons on topics like moving through creative resistance, a holistic creative metric system to help you chart your growth, the shitty art challenge guidebook and other resources.
A private 1:1 line to me.
Send private voice and/or text msgs to me throughout your week via a private Voxer channel, and each weekend Friday through Sunday (9 am – 6 pm EST) I’ll catch-up respond!
This is THE place for private, personalized accountability, encouragement, support and sustained momentum between your private and community calls.
Artists love using this space on things like: processing disappointment, celebrating wins, asking creative advice, sharing struggles, sending updates, and more.
A self-expansion document.
Upon enrollment, you will be given a private Google Doc that we share in together.
There, I give you monthly writing prompts that gently, lovingly investigate and reshape how you see yourself, your desires and what you belief is possible—and inevitable—for someone like you.
I will read each of your answers, respond with follow-up notes, and offer new questions each month.
This discourse will inform all the other work we do together in the cohort.
The cost of the program: $3200 paid-in-full or $550/month for six months.
What clients are saying about working together:
“"This completely transformed my relationship with my creative process and allowed me to have better access to my creative flow.”— KR
“I stared to tap into my creativity and inspiration again, which I haven't allowed myself to do in so many years.
I started drawing more, and learned how to tend to my scared parts when my inner critic showed up” —HD
“Ashley gently and expertly guides you into a more loving and understanding place about who you are and where your unique creativity comes from.” — CJ
Apply
The spell starts here! Take center-stage in your own life & creativity. Apply to join us today.
Spots are first come, first served. Applications will close will spots fill, so if you feel drawn, get yours in while you can!
If accepted, you will hear from me either by text or email within one week. Upon acceptance, you’ll have a week after that to secure your spot!
The cohort begins August 2026 and runs through end of January 2027. Applications close when spots fill.
FAQ
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I find that when programs are too long (like, say, 12 months) it can be easy to hang in the back of the class and assume, “I have plenty of time — I’ll do more with this later.” But we get good at what we practice, and I want to help you practice leaning IN to your art and saying YES to the things that matter for you.
Six months is long enough to start building real trust and safety both in our coaching relationship but also for you within yourself, and short enough that you feel inspired to lean in and show up! -
If you find that at the end of six-months, you want more support, you can always re-enroll.
A lot of creatives — especially those who opt to work at a group-coaching level — find it helpful to remain in these spaces for longer stretches of time, as they work toward completion of their projects and goals.
Current members will always have first choice or re-enrollment before I open up new spots to the public! -
Even if you don’t have a specific product-based goal (ie like drafting a manuscript, publishing a regular blog, painting a series, etc.) if you have a process-based goal (like showing up weekly to create for the fun of it, writing for myself, exploring new mediums, etc.) the program will likely still be very supportive to you!
There may be corners of it (like our art-crit feedback channel on Discord!) that aren’t for you, but who knows! You might get in and find fun areas of your practice and goals that could benefit from outside love and feedback.That said, if you’re satisfied in your current creative flow with no complaints or goals you wanna be exploring but aren’t, this probably is not for you!
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No. Due to the live and personalized nature of this program, all sales are final.
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If accepted, you can pay-in-full or split your tuition into six, auto-draw monthly payments.
I am currently working to secure scholarship funding and will add a need-based section to applications as that comes in!
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This program is meant to be flexible to meet you where you’re at and go as lite or deeply as you like.
In any given month, we have about 5 hours of liveprogramming available (two 90 minute group coaching calls and one 90 minute creative play date) — sometimes a little more if you have your 1:1 that month.Of course, you can always give your creative work more time, and with the Discord channel and 1:1 Voxer Office Hours, this program offers the infrastructure to support you in doing just that.