Art Cures

03/25/2026

There is something powerful about making space to create together ✨

I’m opening up Lab Time again on April 10 from 1–2:30pm ET, and you are warmly invited.

This is a space where we gather with intention and bring whatever is alive in us. You can work with writing, movement, drawing, painting, music, or any creative practice that feels supportive.

I’ll offer a gentle structure and music to help you settle in, and then we move into our own creative process while being held in community.

Many people find that when they give themselves this kind of space, something begins to open. There is more clarity, more momentum, and a deeper connection to what wants to be expressed.

✨ No experience needed
✨ Come as you are
✨ Pay what you wish

If you’ve been wanting to reconnect with your creativity or simply carve out time for yourself, I would love to have you there.

Send me a message or email me to receive the Zoom link 💌

03/18/2026

The second half of life holds a threshold many of us are never taught how to cross.

It can be a time of questioning, loss, and uncertainty. But it can also be a powerful moment to reconnect with our creativity, our purpose, and the deeper story we are here to live.

This June, I’ll be co-facilitating Living Your Legacy: A Creative Voyage into the Second Half of Life, a two-day online expressive arts retreat with the wonderful Marialuisa Diaz de Leon.

Together we will explore visual art, movement, and creative writing as ways to listen to the body, honor life transitions, and shape the legacy we want to carry forward.

If you feel the call to reflect, reorient, and reconnect with your creative spark, I would love to have you join us.

✨ June 19–20, 2026
✨ Live on Zoom
✨ Earlybird pricing available through May 19

Learn more and enroll: https://art-cures.com/legacy/

📷 Credit: Taylor Hickey

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03/12/2026

Charlottesville! I’m so happy to share that our documentary, The Creative High, is going to be showing at the premiere venue in town, the Paramount Theater on Thursday, April 2nd! The largest venue we have ever screened the film.

This event is a fundraiser to support a very special women’s recovery home. Come out for a spectacular night out and support a good cause.

I will be there along with producer Dianne Griffin flying in from San Francisco for a VIP event before the screening. And there will be an art auction as well with art created by women involved in Georgia’s Friends.

Get more info and buy tickets in my bio or go to .

03/11/2026

✨ New ISMETA Workshop ✨

Join me for Unhooking from Addictive Habits: A Somatic Arts Approach

🗓 Friday, April 24
🕛 12–3pm ET

In this experiential workshop we’ll explore how movement, drawing, and embodied expressive arts practices can help us understand and shift addictive patterns while reconnecting with the true self beneath habitual behaviors.

Together we’ll explore tools that support recovery, nervous system regulation, joy, and creative expression — for ourselves and for those we work with.

📅 Registration deadline: April 17th

I’d love to have you join us. 💫 https://ismeta.org/course/unhooking-from-addictive-habits-a-somatic-arts-approach

03/04/2026

The second half of life is not an ending. It is a threshold.

Together with Marialuisa Diaz de Leon, I invite you into Living Your Legacy, a virtual creative retreat where we will explore how the second half of life can become a time of renewed purpose, expression, and meaning.

Through art, movement, and reflection, we will gently shift from the story of “it is too late” into the lived experience of “now is the time.”

Join us live on Zoom | June 19th and 20th | 11am to 5:30pm ET

Early bird pricing is available through May 19.

This is a space to listen deeply, honor your story, and begin shaping the legacy that wants to emerge.

Learn more and enroll. ✨https://art-cures.com/legacy/

02/28/2026

Here’s Joey, our baby kangaroo. 💓

After my dear cat Pablo died at the beginning of COVID, there was a lot of emptiness. As so many of you know pet loss cuts deep. So we took a short break from having cats that ended up turning into 5 years.

And then it became hard to make the transition to pet ownership again. We tried getting two kittens after moving to Virginia who were a little too feral, and it completely stressed me out. We gave them back to the foster org. Then there were a lot of starts and stops.

In early January, we decided we were as ready as we would ever be and that we were going to look for another ginger cat, an adult cat or older kitten. We took a trip to the local ASPCA and there was this guy at 5 months. He was affectionate and confident and let me hold him in his arms.

We almost left to sleep on the decision but someone else was coming in an hour specifically to meet him. So I took a big breath and we jumped in.

Kittens are a lot of work! Tearing around, getting into my well cared for plants, demanding attention - yet now at 6 months we are all finding our rhythm. In some ways life is easier without a pet, but the wonder and sweetness he brings is unmatched.

02/26/2026

I recently learned of the work of Minneapolis painter Mary Guzowski, who has been creating what she calls “protest paintings” in response to the fear and upheaval unfolding in her local neighborhoods. Living amid the tension and uncertainty surrounding recent ICE raids, Mary turns to her canvas during sleepless nights. 🎨

Painting becomes her way of staying present, processing what feels overwhelming, and transforming anxiety into color, gesture, and form.

Mary is a professor of architecture at the University of Minnesota and has also been an active Zen Buddhist practitioner for decades. These paintings are not only protest. They are meditation. 🕊️ They are witness. They are a way of metabolizing chaos without turning away from it.

In times like these, creativity can become a buoy. 🌊 Not an escape from reality, but a way to stay steady within it. Art can hold what feels unbearable and, in doing so, help us remain human. ✨🖌️

02/18/2026

✨ Last Chance to Join Creative Gateways ✨

If you have been feeling the pull to create…
If you have been craving reflection, connection, and space to breathe…
This is your gentle nudge.

Creative Gateways begins this Saturday, and registration is closing.

In times that feel uncertain or heavy, gathering in community to move, write, paint, and listen can be a buoy. This series is not about being “good” at art. It is about showing up honestly. It is about tending your inner life. It is about remembering that creativity lives inside you, waiting.

We will explore visual art, writing, and somatic movement in a supportive in-person space here in Charlottesville. You do not need experience. Only curiosity.

If your heart has been whispering yes, I would love to welcome you.

Join us before doors close. 💛

👉 Enroll here: https://art-cures.com/gateways/

02/11/2026

❄️🎨 CREATIVE GATEWAYS | CHARLOTTESVILLE

Long winter days have a way of inviting us inward.

If you are craving connection, creativity, and a pause from the noise, Creative Gateways is a warm, in-person expressive arts series happening right here in Charlottesville.

Join me for four Saturdays of:
• Art
• Movement
• Creative reflection
• Nervous system soothing practices

No art experience needed. Just curiosity.

🗓 Feb 21 & 28, March 7 & 14, 2026
⏰ 1 to 3pm
📍 In person | Charlottesville, VA

Give yourself something nourishing to look forward to this winter.

👉 Enroll here: https://art-cures.com/gateways/

02/04/2026

I loved this conversation so much 💛

I recently joined Creative Peacemeal with host Tammy Takaishi, and we explored what it truly means to work creatively in the field of mental health.

We talked about creative arts therapy, my award-winning documentaries, the creative process as a path of healing, and how art can open doors to insight, resilience, and connection when words fall short.

It was such a thoughtful and spacious dialogue, and I’m grateful for the care Tammy brings to these conversations.

If you’re curious about creativity as medicine, this one’s for you. ✨

🎧 Listen here
https://www.creativepeacemeal.com/adriana-marchione-creative-arts-therapist-discusses-her-field-her-award-winning-documentaries-and/

02/02/2026

Winter sure hit hard this year. My third winter since I moved back to the East Coast. The cold and snow has slowed things down and slowed me down. Sometimes it feels cozy and other times I feel heavy and trapped inside, emotionally and physically. For me a creative mindset and making artwork in any form is a way through. Part of why I do the work I do is to stay in the creative stream where so much beauty, nourishment and fulfillment lives.

Things will start warming up next week - and I’m offering my first in-person expressive arts class series in Charlottesville that starting February 21st. There is a great group that has signed up so far and I have a few spaces left. I’m so looking forward to sharing my work using visual art, movement, and writing. No art experience necessary - just a willingness to be open and connect in a meaningful way with oneself and others.

If you need a boost and are in the area, come join us! Feel free to PM me or comment below if interested or have questions. I’ve also extended the early-bird discount due to the recent storm. Link with all the details in my bio!

01/28/2026