12/31/2025
2025, you were full of color, creativity, collaboration, and connection — and the beginnings of my graduate counseling studies 🎓 at .
Swipe ➡️ through this little year-end reflection from my artful corner of the world:
❷ Grateful for another year facilitating journaling inside a federal correctional facility — plus creating and teaching my first train-the-trainer curriculum to support peer-led reflection.
❸ Experienced the joy of being connected to and through the generous outreach of — which led to and sharing some of my work on .
❹ Became a teaching artist at and led 100+ students through mixed media workshops, creating one-of-a-kind meaningful pieces using the same tools and techniques I use in my own art.
❺ At this year’s Decorator’s Show House & Gardens , the wildly creative featured custom artwork I made through my collaboration with in The Keepsake Collection — also featured in the 2025 Anti-Clutter Gift Guide.
❻ Together with , we brought workshops to IPS art teachers for a professional development day and hosted an meetup at the beautiful .
❼ Showed and sold my work at my first-ever tented outdoor festival — where 90% of my pieces hung in custom frames made by the love of my life, .art. A true joy to witness her mastering woodworking 🤍
❽ Sold my largest commission to date: a 48”×48” mixed media piece layered with meaningful photos, postcards, and scraps from a family’s travels in Spain. A huge honor.
Art as connection also looked like this: birthday parties, 1:1 sessions with teens, endless collage papers, and so many moments of brave, imperfect making.
Thank you to everyone who created with me this year — students, collaborators, collectors, teachers, and friends.
Here’s to more art, more trust in process, and more space to create in 2026.
xo,
Meghan