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Where Water Meets Sky: A Mosaic Workshop for Rejuvenating Spirit with the Ocean’s Treasures (In-Person Program)
Saturday, May 3, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
“I LOVED this program! Had such a nice day! I would not change a thing!!! THANK YOU for the best day!” – Kathy Finney
“I will probably be the first to sign up if this is offered again . I had joy and peace in self and beach combing community the whole time . Cinder is an amazing facilitator & person . Please offer this at least once a year , but hopefully more than that!” – Sharon Bateman
The metaphor of powerful waves wearing down the sharp edges of objects in the surf’s tumble is apt for these days and times. The “waves of overwhelm” can be exhausting and diminishing in our lives. Creativity allows the soul to open, to sing again, to restore and rejuvenate. It is a process of inviting joy into our lives.
With the simplest and most humble of materials – beach combed sea glass, stones, and shells – this workshop seeks to awaken our creative juices and enliven our imaginations with time to play, breathe, ponder, create.
Like a walk on the beach, the mosaic medium provides a calm, purposeful path into the soul. It allows us to sink into flow, moving bit by bit and piece by piece toward focus. We will create mosaic pieces that can serve as talismans for the journey ahead, each one a prayer for our path forward. Writing and group work will enrich our explorations, and a “gallery walk” to share our finished pieces and the journeys that inspired them – will cap off the experience.
We are delighted to welcome back Baltimore artist, Cinder Hypki, for her fourth mosaic offering at the Well! Cinder brings years of experience guiding groups in creative activities for celebration, exploration and healing. No prior experience with mosaics or any art form is required to participate. Cinder brings her mobile mosaic studio to the Well and guides every step of this fun, creative, and life-giving process. You have the option to bring your own beach combed treasures or work with a beautiful assortment of Cinder’s pottery shards, sea glass, and shells.
To learn more about Cinder and her amazing work, please visit her website – http://www.cinderart.com
DATE: Saturday, May 3, 2025
TIME: 1:00 – 5:00 PM
COST: $100 + $25 Supply Fee
LOCATION: Well for the Journey – 120 W. Seminary Ave, Lutherville-Timonium, MD 21093
REGISTRATION is required; please register here.
IMPORTANT: You will receive an email from programming@wellforthejourney.org at least 24 hours in advance of the start of your program. If you are unable to find the email, please check your SPAM or JUNK email folders. This email will include details to help you prepare for your program including any pertinent handouts, location information, and the ZOOM link for online programs. Please be sure you have received and read this email a minimum of 24 hours in advance of the start of the program. Thank you!
CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY: Please read our cancellation / refund policy, here.
FACILITATOR: Cinder Hypki
FACILITATOR BIO:
Cinder Hypki is an artist, educator and writer living in Upper Fells Point, Baltimore. She maintains a vibrant mosaic studio for her workshops, commissions, fine art work, and as a staging ground for collaborative art projects.
Cinder uses creative expression for community building, celebration and healing. She brings groups and communities together around similar experiences, pride of place, and across lines of race and class, to find common ground.
Examples of Cinder’s projects include mandala workshops with cancer patients, nurses and chaplains at Johns Hopkins’ Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, and creation of an interactive sculpture for its annual Service of Remembrance. Cinder designed mosaic workshops for five Enoch Pratt Library branches during a CeaseFire week. Her storytelling circles aid Baltimore nonprofits to strengthen teamwork on deeper levels. She designed How Are We Healing?, a participatory community installation for The NOVA Institute, to accompany Devin Allen’s powerful photographic exhibition of Baltimore’s uprising in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death. Cinder also works with individuals to commemorate loved ones through mosaics and other forms of expression.
For over a decade, Cinder taught and mentored students at MICA in their community residencies – undergraduates and graduate students in MICA’s MFA in Community Arts program. Today, she continues to coach and encourage fellow creatives.
Cinder is a writer and poet, and the developmental editor of the newly published book Healing and Medicine: A Doctor’s Journey Towards Their Integration by Paul Dieppe. She is editor of Drawing in the Dark by John Wilson and has published Far Field Farm: Stories of a Sturdy Dream, a book of narrative non-fiction about her parents’ land ethic on their Wisconsin farm. She has authored numerous articles, manuals, reports, and curricula
