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What if your art felt more focused… more exciting… like every design choice helped tell your story?

In this mentorship group with Alicia Farris (), emerging artists will build more confidence, clarity, and creative focus in their artistic practice while learning how to use strong design to bring their work to life.

You’ll explore how composition, value, color, shape, and other design concepts can help you create work with more drama, stronger impact, and a clearer artistic voice – while still painting the subjects that inspire you, in the medium you choose.

Inside the group, you’ll explore:
• Using design to bring more drama and excitement to your work
• Strengthening composition, value, color, and shape
• Choosing tools and materials that support your practice
• Building your artistic voice, style, and brand
• Sharing successes, challenges, and learning moments
• Entering shows and competitions with more confidence
• Preparing and shipping artwork safely

This group is for emerging artists ready to grow their confidence, sharpen their design skills, and create work that feels more personal, powerful, and true to their artistic story.

👉 Join Alicia Farris’ mentorship group today: link in bio .official

What if your art felt braver… freer… like you could finally trust your choices and push your work further? ✨

In this mentorship group with Stephanie Schirm (), emerging artists will build the creative courage, clarity, and confidence needed to move beyond hesitation and create work with more freedom, intention, and impact.

Rooted in Stephanie’s background in design, color, and expressive figurative work, this group will help you experiment beyond your comfort zone while still keeping structure, purpose, and direction in your process.

Inside the group, you’ll explore:
• Growing your comfort zone through creative experimentation
• Using and layering color with more intention
• Loosening up without losing your plan
• Building stronger design and visual structure
• Learning how to critique your own work more effectively

👉 Join Stephanie's mentorship group today: link in bio .official

What if this summer helped you create stronger work, explore new materials, and finally build a body of art that feels connected and intentional?

Our Mastrius Summer Residencies are designed to help you grow with structure, support, accountability, and real creative momentum.

Choose the residency that fits what you need most right now. Here are a few of the many options:

How to Create a Series with Sheldon Greenberg ()
Learn how to take a single image or idea and transform it into an engaging body of work through variations in color, composition, scale, technique, and media.

Build a Body of Work Around a Single Theme with Shannon Amidon ()
Discover how to identify meaningful themes, sustain creative momentum, and create a cohesive collection of work that reflects your unique interests and artistic voice.

A Little Knife Music: Oil and Cold Wax Exploration with Casey Cheuvront ()
Experiment with cold wax, palette knife techniques, layering, texture, and abstraction while exploring a fresh and exciting approach to oil painting.

Paint Along with Lin with Lin Luciano Fiore ()
Paint alongside a master artist as you learn traditional oil painting techniques, composition, color mixing, value structure, and the timeless methods of the Old Masters.

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT – Save 10%!
Use coupon code: residencyearlybird
Sale ends June 3rd.

July – August 2026

Give yourself the time, support, and creative focus to go deeper with your art this summer.

What if your paintings felt clearer… more convincing… like every color, shape, and choice had a purpose? ✨

In this mentorship group with Nicole Santiago (), aspiring artists will build the visual foundation and studio confidence needed to create work that feels intentional, expressive, and fully resolved.

You’ll learn how to move beyond muddy color, uncertain compositions, and overworked paintings, and start making stronger decisions with color, light, form, and narrative.

Inside the group, you’ll explore:
• Seeing and mixing color quickly and accurately
• Creating convincing volume, form, and spatial depth
• Using light and color to reveal structure
• Building stronger pictorial narratives
• Designing compelling, well-structured compositions
• Painting effectively from observation and photo references
• Developing healthy, sustainable studio practices

This group is for aspiring artists ready to stop second-guessing their process, and start building paintings with stronger structure, deeper purpose, and a clearer artistic voice.

👉 Join Nicole Santiago’s mentorship group today: link in bio .official