Creativity Workshop
Art House Dallas loved hosting our annual Creativity Workshop featuring author, songwriter, and founder of The Rabbit Room, Andrew Peterson, and illustrator Stephen Crotts. This day-long workshop explored the creative process through the lens of each artist as well as the importance and uniqueness of creative communities.
Comprised of three primary sessions, the workshop featured talks from Stephen and Andrew, as well as a guided journaling and embodiment session with spiritual director and movement coach Anya Hernandez. The day closed with a happy hour and conversation with Stephen and Andrew about creative communities.
Workshop Schedule
10:00 am - Check-in begins
10:30 am - Session One with Stephen Crotts on his artistic process, cultivating wonder and empathy through habits of observational drawing, finding light in the dark through relief printmaking, and the satisfaction of creative collaboration
12:00 pm - Lunch on your own (Art House Dallas will provide recommendations to attendees)
1:30 pm - Session Two with Anya Hernandez will be a guided journaling and embodiment session.
2:30 pm - Session Three with Andrew Peterson on the necessity of community for the growth and development of the creative and artist and how the local church has historically participated and can participatenow.
3:30 pm - Happy Hour and Conversation with Stephen and Andrew (drinks included in ticket price) about the importance of cultivating creative communities. The conversation will be moderated by Guy Delcambre of Art House Dallas.
4:30 pm - Workshop ends
Workshop Speakers
Andrew Peterson
For more than twenty years now, Andrew Peterson has been about the business of quietly changing lives in four-minute increments. In the city of Nashville where music is an industry in the same way fast food is, Peterson has forged his own path, refusing the artistic compromises that so often come with chasing album sales and creating instead a long line of songs that ache with sorrow, joy and integrity, and that are part of a real, ongoing, human conversation.
Andrew is also the award-winning author of several book, including The Wingfeather Saga, Adoring the Dark, and God of the Garden.
In 2008, driven by a desire to cultivate a strong Christian arts community, Andrew founded a ministry called The Rabbit Room. Andrew and his wife, Jamie, have been married for over 24 years and have three children, Aedan, Asher, and Skye. In his spare time Andrew keeps bees, builds dry stack stone walls, gardens, draws, and sleeps.
Stephen Crotts
Stephen enjoys partnering with folks to communicate the true, good, and beautiful.
His illustrations have been featured in award-winning books, album covers, magazines, and on stage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. He has received ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Awards and two Dove Award nominations for album cover art.
He founded Friday Arts Project, an arts organization dedicated to calling forth a more fully human community, and serves on the board of the Arts Council of York County and the Rock Hill Poet Laureate Committee. He and his wife, Erica, have two daughters. He enjoys cooking in giant iron pots, playing banjo, and reptile and amphibian conservation efforts.
Anya Hernandez
Anya Hernandez is an arts educator, certified spiritual director and trauma support specialist. Her creative practice is marked by the desire to cultivate spaces for individuals to be seen, heard, and known in the truth of their own story. Over the years, this work has taken many shapes such as dance theater performance, facilitating storytelling workshops, and partnering with community life ministries. Anya is currently based in Dallas TX, where she provides SEL arts programming for preK-middle school students and practices spiritual direction.