CREATiVE FiNiSHiNG SCHOOL

Five weeks to get your cheeky lil art project out of your head & out into the world!!!

Reclining Nude, Raoul Dufy

2026 was gonna be the year you made more art!

You were gonna gather those poems into a chapbook. You were gonna paint that giant canvas you’ve been keeping in storage, or start sharing that creative project online.

Only, now it’s almost October, and nothing’s happened.

Whoops!

No bother.

Enter: CREATIVE FINISHING SCHOOL!

a class cohort for conceptualizing, implementing, and (YES BB) finishing a creative project of your own.

Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, 1969

This is not just a ~sit and get~ class where we’ll learn and talk about “finishing your art” in theory.

This is a learn through doing class that will help you move, week by week, through the beginning and end of your art project.


You get:

  • 5 live teaching + coaching sessions with replays

  • Workbooks for post-class integration that guide you from project selection → finished work

  • My 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!

Interested?

WHY FINISH A THING?

  • BUILD SELF-TRUST.

    Your ability to make decisions and take calculated risks aren’t personality traits — they’re skills you can build with practice!

    The more you do, the more you can deeply feel into the reality that you can trust yourself to follow through.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

I want in!

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.

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