creative finishing school
a five-week creative class for starting (AND FINISHING!) an art project of your own
Reclining Nude, Raoul Dufy
Calling the creative-but-stifled, the am-I-really-an-artist artists, the baddies with big ideas and the creative chaos gremlins.
If you're hungry to get your art out of your head & into the world, this is for you.
Creative Finishing School:
a five-week class & cohort for conceptualizing, implementing, and finishing
a creative project of your own
October 19 — November 23, 2026
Live classes: Mondays, 2-3:30 pm EST
Replays available
EARLY BIRD PRICING:
$250 thru September 30
$300
Pay-in-full or two-part payment plan of $125/month
50% off scholarship spots are available as well with code HELP-FINISHING for anyone experiencing financial insecurity who still wants to join!
Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, 1969
Five weeks. One small project. A world of momentum.
Saunter into the end of 2026 with a FINISHED art project under your belt!
Every week this autumn, we’ll meet for 90 minutes to learn, work through the material, troubleshoot your project, and keep you moving.
You’ll get:
5 live teaching + coaching sessions with replays
A two-part workbook guiding you from project selection → finished work
This Creative Finishing School curriculum covers self-trust, project design, momentum, resistance, refinement and sharing
An artists’ Discord for questions, support, celebration & community-led co-working
A bonus Creative Show & Tell session to celebrate your finished art project!
Ready to sign up?
CREATIVE MOMENTUM INCOMING!! Need financial support? Use code HELP-FINISHING for 50% off at checkout.
This is for you if:
you have a specific creative project you’ve been circling for 1000 years and need a creative win to boost momentum & moral STAT
you have a tendency to overthink and under-create (some of the best of us do!!) and are ready to practice a more chaotic approach
you wanna stretch your capacity to Do It Scared
you have a complicated relationship with calling yourself an artist and yet can’t help but wanna make shit
you’re tired of only creating in isolation & crave community
you don’t know yet what you wanna create but KNOW you need to MAKE something
You do not need to consider yourself an artist. You do not need the Perfect Idea.
You do not need to be fearless — you only need to be willing to set aside your bullshit long enough to make something slightly chaotic, imperfect, human and REAL.
The 5 Week Arc:
01. FINDING YOUR WAY IN
Your creative why. Self-love as fuel. Desire. What are you actually hungry to make?
02. CHOOSING THE THING
Working with fear. Commitment. Honing your ideas & project selection. Parameters. Befriending the unknown.
03. START THE THING
Starting before you’re ready. Messy, persistent action & rituals of radical care.
04. KEEP GOING!
Sustaining momentum. Befriending resistance. Making peace with decisions, and adjusting without abandoning.
05. PREPARING FOR HARVEST
Refinement. Discerning “done enough.” Celebrating, and what’s next.
WHY FINISH A THING?
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BUILD SELF-TRUST.
Making decisions and taking risks are skills you can learn and grow.
The more you do, the more you viscerally know you can trust yourself to follow through.
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GROW YOUR ABIITY TO MOVE THRU DISCOMFORT.
Teach your body that you can experience discomfort and NOT DIE!
It’s really easy for our nervous systems and the alarm bells of our anxious minds to forget that.
Finishing things help you learn through a kind of creative exposure therapy that vulnerability, boredom, fear and doubt do not need to mean STOP. That you can feel afraid while still being wholly safe and beloved.
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FIND YOUR VOICE.
The more you take your ideas from start to FINISH, the more you learn about what interests you, where your values lie, and what is most pressing for you to explore and say.
We strengthen our voice by persistently using our voice.
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BUILD MOMENTUM.
Finishing things creates space in your body and mind for new ideas and future things to come through!
Creativity begets creativity. One finished projects feeds the next.
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FEEL ALIVE.
Making and finishing things is fun!!!
Doing hard things and coming out the other side helps you to realize you’re actually more powerful than you ever imagined — this is deeply enlivening!!
Finishing things boosts your confidence, capacity and sense of self-delight in a way that thinking things through and planning forever COULD NEVER.
The secret to making cooler and cooler things is to keep finishing the things you're making now.
HI! I’M ASHLEY
I’ll be your instructor for this cohort — I’m an artist / small business owner/ creativity coach and professional enthusiast of making shit that would otherwise not exist in this world.
I’ve spent the past decade helping creatives (myself included!) get out of our own way to bring our ideas to life, and develop a kinder, more loving relationship to ourselves in the process.
This is NOT a class about productivity — it’s a class that helps you to prioritize bringing MORE of yourself (aka your art!!) into the world one piece or one project at a time.
What my clients are saying:
