Class Offerings

Our Winter Quarter 2025 Artist's Classes via Zoom are NOW OPEN for Registration with classes beginning late-January 2025. Sign up EARLY as our classes fill quickly. GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE. Just email us, and we'd be happy to generate one. We are running  Artist's Way Classes online via Zoom as well as one in-person class this Winter Quarter 2025 (Pacific Standard Time). Zoom is free to participants. Any questions, please let us know. We look forward to bringing this transformative material to you this Winter 2025! 

Here's our Winter Quarter 2025 Artist's Way Class Schedule with classes beginning in late January 2025. Four of the Class sections are online and ONE class Section (the Wednesday night class is in-person). 

SCROLL DOWN BELOW for information on ALL our Artist's Way Classes as well as our It's Never Too Late To Begin Classes, Your Right to Write Classes and Monthly Artist's Way Drop-in Class for Seattle Artist's Way Alums. Register for a class by going to our "Register for Classes" page.

The Artist's Way in Seattle - Monday OR Wednesday classes - Monday evening and Wednesday daytime class will be online via ZOOM. The Wednesday night Artist's Way Class Section will be in-person - Classes fill quickly! (using Julia Cameron's bestselling book on creativity The Artist's Way) 

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron is an international bestseller on the subject of creativity. Whether you see yourself as an artist or not, this book and class can be an incredibly useful resource to tap into your creative side which can benefit many parts of your lives. The 2 hour a week 12 week long class will take students through the 12 chapters with an emphasis on the accompanying chapter exercises and additional creativity exercises and strategies (i.e. meditation tools). This material can work with anyone, no matter how dormant or energized their creative life may be, and can enhance their ability to be more fully and genuinely themselves.

Julia Cameron uses 3 basic tools for students to enhance their lives and their creativity: 1) morning pages (writing 3 pages longhand of stream of consciousness writing), artist's dates (solo fun dates with yourself) and completing creativity exercises at the back of each chapter. Students report that as a result of going through our Artist's Way class they more fully and genuinely know themselves, they discover or re-discover their gifts and talents and have more fun and joy in their lives.

To quote Julia, "In order to retrieve your creativity, you need to find it." The basic tools and the additional creativity exercises that we incorporate into the 12 week course can help you do just that. No prerequisites required for the class. Please note: Students will have the opportunity to have a 30 minute 1 on 1 Zoom chat with Kate prior to the first class and at the end of the quarter, as well. Choose either the Monday OR Wednesday Sections.

Section I: MONDAY EVENINGS, January 20 - April 7 (ONLINE via Zoom) (12 weeks) 

Mondays, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (Pacific Standard Time)

$395

Instructor: Kate Gavigan

WEDNESDAYS DAYTIME, January 22 - April 9 (ONLINE via Zoom) (12 weeks)

DAYTIME class for Pacific Standard time students or a great evening class for East Coast time folks!

Wednesdays 3:00 - 5:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time) Via ZOOM

$395

Instructor: Kate Gavigan

Section III: IN PERSON CLASS WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, JANUARY 22 - April 9th (12 weeks)

Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8:30 pm (Pacific Standard Time)
Location for the in-person class is the: Fauntleroy Schoolhouse,  9131 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136 

$465

Instructor: Kate Gavigan

TO REGISTER for the Monday or Wednesday Artist's Way Classes: go to our "Register for Classes"  Page

A $75 tuition nontransferable nonrefundable deposit secures your space in the class with the balance due a week before the first class. Please Note: It's not unusual for students to have to miss 1 or 2 classes over the course of the 12 weeks and Kate will write detailed notes so that you stay connected to the material and to your fellow students.

Please Note: Students are responsible for purchasing their own copy of The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

See below for additional WINTER 2025 CLASSES VIA ZOOM

“It’s never too late to explore or rediscover your creativity!” 

Curious about The Artist's Way and how to apply it to your midlife years and/or retirement? Best-selling creativity author Julia Cameron (The Artist’s Way) has created an Artist's Way program geared specifically for older adults including those at midlife and for retirees in her new book: It’s Never too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond. Under the guidance of creativity instructor, Kate Gavigan, students will explore the 12 chapters, learn some fun Artist's Way tools, play with the memoir reflection tasks and identify how to implement the creative tools in their own lives. Being willing to explore your creativity at any age can instill in you a youthful wonder and can enhance your experience of seeing your retirement years as a time of fun and adventure. This class can be a great jumpstart to assist you in navigating and thriving during your midlife years and beyond! Maximum: 10 students.

Please note: Students will get to have a 1 on 1 30 minute Zoom chat with Kate prior to the first class and another one at the end of the 12 weeks.

Section IV: January 21 - April 8 (online via Zoom) (12 weeks) 

Tuesdays, 6:30 - 8:30  pm (Pacific Standard Time)

$395 (12 weeks)

Instructor: Kate Gavigan

TO REGISTER, go to our "Register for Classes" Page

A $75 tuition nontransferable nonrefundable deposit secures your space in the class with the balance due a week before the first class. It's not unusual for students to have to miss 1 or 2 classes over the course of the 12 weeks and Kate will write detailed notes so that you stay connected to the material and to your fellow students.

Please note: Students are responsible for purchasing their own copy of the book It's Never Too Late to Begin Again by Julia Cameron

See below for additional WINTER 2025 CLASSES VIA ZOOM

We start with the desire: “I want to write.” Then any number of blocks can pop up to make the task of writing seem like a herculean one to accomplish. Led by Creativity Instructor, Kate Gavigan this 12 week writing class will take you through the chapters in creativity writer Julia Cameron’s book The Right to Write. In this book, Julia explores the “why” of why we write or are called to write. Using that as a foundation, we will take the next small steps from “why” we write to “let’s go ahead and write!”

Over the course of the 12 weeks, we will utilize several transformative Artist’s Way creativity tools (morning pages, artist’s dates) to help ground us in our creativity and in our writing practice. We will have FUN playing around with words and experimenting and exploring a wide variety of writing genres. Students will also engage with some gentle tasks to help identify and miniaturize your critic/censor, address past blocking artistic injuries and write in a low pressure, relaxed and encouraging atmosphere. To quote Julia Cameron, “I want to let everybody in. I want us all to write … we all have the right to write.”

We look forward to offering a class that makes room for us ALL to write!

Absolute beginners welcome as well as long time writers and everyone in between.

Maximum 10 students. Students will also get to meet with the instructor for 30 minutes prior to the first class for a 1 on 1 chat as well as a closing 30 minute individual session.

Section V: January 19 - April 6

Sundays, 6:00 – 8:00 pm (Online via Zoom)

$395 (12 weeks)

Instructor: Kate Gavigan

TO REGISTER for this class: go to "Register for Classes" page 

A $75 tuition nontransferable nonrefundable deposit secures your space in the class with the balance due a week before the first class. Please Note: It's not unusual for students to have to miss 1 or 2 classes over the course of the 12 weeks and Kate will write detailed notes so that you stay connected to the material and to your fellow students. Please note: Students are responsible for purchasing their own copy of The Right to Write by Julia Cameron.

Kate Gavigan has been facilitating Artist’s Way Classes since 2009 and has a passion for helping students discover or rediscover their gifts and talents. Kate rediscovered her fondness for writing at about the same time she began offering Artist’s Way Classes. She has loved the power of words since the very first time a book was read to her (“I am a Bunny” by Richard Scarry) and her love for the power, the majesty, the wonder of words has grown exponentially since then. She has a particular calling for helping all students realize they have a unique voice that only they can share and is excited to offer this class that helps them do just that. 

See BELOW for additional 2024 CLASSES via Zoom

Ever since we started running classes in 2009, our Artist's Way students have been asking for a way to stay connected to our instructors and each other. While we do offer an Artist's Way Class exclusively for alums, we wanted to offer also a more flexible monthly one hour drop-in Artist's Way drop-in for alums. So HERE IT IS:

The last Thursday of each month for ONE hour online via ZOOM, Artist's Way Instructor Kate Gavigan will offer a drop-in class which will be an opportunity for Seattle Artist's Way alums to check in around morning pages, artist's dates, ask questions and share about their creative process plus do a creative task and end with naming some goals for the coming month. MORE information about the class below at the bottom of this page. You can attend just 1 of the sessions or all of them. The dates for the sessions will be updated on the website monthly so you can register for sessions monthly.

Section VI: the LAST THURSDAY of EACH MONTH for ONE hour 

6:00 - 7:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time)

Next Session: Thursday, October 24, 2024

$30 (each monthly session)

Instructor: Kate Gavigan

TO REGISTER for this class, go to our "Register for Classes" Page

Maximum Number of Students/alums for Drop in class only: 30 students maximum

Here are our upcoming 2024 Artist's Way Alumni Drop-in ZOOM class dates:

LAST THURSDAY of the Month:

October 24, 2024 (one week early because of Halloween the following week!)

November 28, 2024

December 26, 2024

Any questions on ANY of our classes, please contact us via our website's contact page!

The Artist's Way for Alumni - (of the Seattle Artist's Way Center) - will return in a future quarter.

We're excited we offer an ALUMNI Artist's Way ZOOM (online) Class for students who have attended the 12 week Artist's Way Class through The Seattle Artist's Way Center!

Students participating in this weekly online Zoom class will get the opportunity to go deeper with their creative practice and their understanding and use of The Artist's Way tools. The 12 week class will take students through the 12 chapters in The Artist's Way but with a specific focus on the key concepts. Students will also be guided to utilize the idea of baby steps to move forward on their specific goals and creative ideas (whatever those are and they could change week to week!). Students will also have an individual 1 on 1 Zoom 30 minute meeting with Kate prior to the first class to share about their creative process and to explore their goals and/or hopes for the class. Kate will also offer a closing one on one 30 minute Zoom chat with each student to review their experience and hopes for the future. To quote Julia at the end of Chapter 12: "Reread this book. Share it with a friend. Remember that the miracle is one artist sharing with another." Here's our opportunity to do just that!

Section IV: Not currently scheduled for Fall Quarter 2024
Sundays, 6:30 - 8:30 pm (Pacific Standard Time)
$395
Instructor: Kate Gavigan

Maximum number of students: 10

Note to be scheduled: Individual 1 on 1 - 30 minute sessions with students and Kate prior to first class and at week 11, prior to the last week 12.

Note: Students are responsible for purchasing their own copy of The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron

(Note: a $75 nonrefundable/nontransferable deposit secures your space in the class with the balance of the class tuition due a week before the class starts).

Please note: It's not unusual for students to have to miss a class or two over the 12 weeks. However, we will provide detailed notes if you have to miss a class.

The Artist's Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children Online via Zoom

Will Return in a Future Quarter

What creative moments from your childhood jump out at you? Maybe it was building a fort, learning a musical instrument or just having fun with play doh. Or perhaps you look back at your childhood and wish you’d been afforded with more chances to be creative. It’s not too late to delight in your creativity and those of your child(ren)! We are excited to support parents by sharing with them creativity tools that can help them enhance the creativity in their children and enhance the creativity in their OWN lives. Over the course of 12 weeks, Creativity Instructor Kate Gavigan will take parents through the 12 chapters of Julia Cameron’s latest book on creativity called The Artist’s Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children (specifically designed for parents of children newborn through age 12). Students will learn some gentle and powerful creativity and life enhancing tools and as a result will have the opportunity to more fully know themselves and their kids, discover or rediscover their creativity, have more fun and joy in their lives and get support from other parents throughout it all. We can’t wait to share this material with you to help you as you guide your children on a healthy creative path toward their future and yours!

Section V: Will return in a future quarter
Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8:30 pm (Pacific Standard time) Online via Zoom
$395 (12 weeks)
Instructor: Kate Gavigan

Students are responsible for purchasing a copy of Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children

Notes: To be scheduled: Individual 1 on 1 - 30 minute sessions with students and Kate prior to first class and at week 11, prior to the last week 12. A $75 nonrefundable/nontransferable deposit secures your space in the class with the balance of the class tuition due a week before the class starts. Please note: It's not unusual for students to have to miss a class or two over the 12 weeks. However, we will provide detailed notes if you have to miss a class.

Kate Gavigan is passionate about The Artist's Way having personally experienced the benefits of the materials. Kate worked in social services as a trainer for over 10 years when she was drawn to the tools outlined in The Artist's Way, which helped her uncover a passion for the arts and creativity in all forms. She credits her mid-life career change (now working at her dream jobs as an Artist's Way Instructor and Speaker, a Creativity Coach, a Home Organizer, Actor, Musician) to having gone through The Artist's Way. She's particularly delighted to be facilitating a class using Julia Cameron's latest creativity book The Artist's Way for Parents having seen the transformative power of sharing your creativity with your children and developing and pursuing your own creative passions.