One Day Workshop Taught Online Via Zoom
Saturday, May 23, 2026
3:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$55 Paid Patreon Members / $75 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Join Alicia K. Anderson for a one-day workshop inviting artists, writers, crafters, and creators of all kinds to join in an act of reciprocal inspiration in which we’ll use alchemical metaphors as a means towards creative manifestation. Intended as both empowering and self-forgiving, this course will offer deep metaphors to inspire and hold space for big artistic ideas.
What can be more creative and inspiring than the process of conjuring the alchemical magnum opus (Great work)? While we won't be creating the Philosopher's Stone, or turning lead into gold, we will be using the metaphor of alchemy to help nurture, inspire, and guide our creative projects.
In the five-hour workshop, attendees will be guided through their own alchemical process of Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinas, and Albedo. To usher us through each alchemical stage ekphrastic exercises and prompts will be included, because art inspires art.
The nigredo stage of art making involves experiencing life fully, being present in the moment, and engaging in what Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, calls “filling the well.” From this fertile ground arises the albedo stage, in which we metabolize our experiences and internalize them, transforming raw living into material for creation. This phase also reminds us of the importance of rest—those quiet intervals of daydreaming or ceiling-staring that allow ideas to settle and form. Following this comes thecitrinas stage, the moment of vision and illumination, when the artist begins to see the work as a whole and discern the path toward its realization. Finally, therubedo stage emerges—empowered and empowering, this is the act of creation itself, the vibrant moment when inspiration is made manifest.
Attendees should bring a pen and journal. You might also consider sketching, coloring, or art supplies.
Alicia King Anderson has a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology. Her dissertation on The Storyteller Archetype explores the responsibilities of storytellers. She is a mythologist and coach based in New Mexico.
Images: Section of the Ripley Scroll, ca. 1600, Public Domain; A three headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher's stone: salt, sulphur, and mercury, ca. 1582, Salomon Trismosin's 'Splendor solis'.
One Day Workshop Taught Online Via Zoom
Saturday, May 23, 2026
3:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$55 Paid Patreon Members / $75 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Join Alicia K. Anderson for a one-day workshop inviting artists, writers, crafters, and creators of all kinds to join in an act of reciprocal inspiration in which we’ll use alchemical metaphors as a means towards creative manifestation. Intended as both empowering and self-forgiving, this course will offer deep metaphors to inspire and hold space for big artistic ideas.
What can be more creative and inspiring than the process of conjuring the alchemical magnum opus (Great work)? While we won't be creating the Philosopher's Stone, or turning lead into gold, we will be using the metaphor of alchemy to help nurture, inspire, and guide our creative projects.
In the five-hour workshop, attendees will be guided through their own alchemical process of Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinas, and Albedo. To usher us through each alchemical stage ekphrastic exercises and prompts will be included, because art inspires art.
The nigredo stage of art making involves experiencing life fully, being present in the moment, and engaging in what Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, calls “filling the well.” From this fertile ground arises the albedo stage, in which we metabolize our experiences and internalize them, transforming raw living into material for creation. This phase also reminds us of the importance of rest—those quiet intervals of daydreaming or ceiling-staring that allow ideas to settle and form. Following this comes thecitrinas stage, the moment of vision and illumination, when the artist begins to see the work as a whole and discern the path toward its realization. Finally, therubedo stage emerges—empowered and empowering, this is the act of creation itself, the vibrant moment when inspiration is made manifest.
Attendees should bring a pen and journal. You might also consider sketching, coloring, or art supplies.
Alicia King Anderson has a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology. Her dissertation on The Storyteller Archetype explores the responsibilities of storytellers. She is a mythologist and coach based in New Mexico.
Images: Section of the Ripley Scroll, ca. 1600, Public Domain; A three headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher's stone: salt, sulphur, and mercury, ca. 1582, Salomon Trismosin's 'Splendor solis'.
