All Ability Levels

Upcoming Retreats

Studio Retreats

Very focused and in-depth, this is a true residency-style experience with Fran helping each artist to understand their work and their role as an artist.

Making the Art of Your Life with Fran Gardner

New Smyrna Beach, FL
August 17, 2023
This is a true residency-style experience – immersion in your work, your artistic self, your creative community.

Creative Workshops

Learn how creativity is a reliable practice. Through guided exercises, each artist will study their own artmaking voice and use these discoveries, layered with challenges set up by Fran, to explore and deepen creativity.

Abiding and Reliable: A Creativity Workshop with Fran Gardner

Knoxville, MD
November 1, 2023
This workshop is about developing a closer relationship with Creativity and helping you to see a deeper structure upon which to think about your artmaking.

Abiding and Reliable: A Creativity Workshop with Fran Gardner

Valdosta, GA
October 11, 2023
This workshop is about developing a closer relationship with Creativity and helping you to see a deeper structure upon which to think about your artmaking.

Writing Workshops

Learn how writing is a way to understand, on a deep level, what you are making and why you are making.

There's nothing scheduled right now.

There's nothing scheduled right now. Check back later, or reach out to Fran to ask about setting up your own retreat.

Types of Experiences

Can't find a retreat that suits you?

Fran offers many types of retreats, workshops, and creative experiences. While there may not be a retreat of each type planned at the moment, you can always reach out to Fran and request a specific type of experience.

To request a retreat, contact Fran at fran@frangardnerart.com.

Studio Retreats

Very focused and in-depth, this is a true residency-style experience with Fran helping each artist to understand their work and their role as an artist.

Creativity Workshops

Learn how creativity is a reliable practice. Through guided exercises, each artist will study their own artmaking voice and use these discoveries, layered with challenges set up by Fran, to explore and deepen creativity.

Writing Workshops

Learn how writing is a way to understand, on a deep level, what you are making and why you are making it so the types of writing artists are asked for -- statements, biographies and descriptions -- become easier and useful in your studio and professional development.