Our Mission
Making the joy of learning art accessible to everyone through inspiring online workshops, exceptional instructors, and a vibrant creative community.
A Place to Learn & Be Inspired
Imaginarium Art Studio® is a long-held dream—to make learning art joyful, vibrant, and accessible, while bringing exceptional creative talent to a wider audience.
Whether you’re discovering something new or refreshing a skill you already love, you’ll find thoughtfully chosen workshops, inspiring instructors, and a welcoming creative community.
And your learning doesn’t end when class does. With instructor approval, recordings remain available for at least three months, giving you time to revisit techniques, practice at your own pace, and continue exploring. Every workshop also includes a private space to share your work, ask questions, and connect with fellow students.
Come learn something new. Stay inspired. Create something wonderful.
Create lovely pieces of art in Every Letter is a Jewel
with Julie Wildman
Level: All Levels
Saturday, October 31 & Sunday, November 1, 2026
9:00am–3:30pm Pacific Time
Two-Day Live Online Workshop via Zoom *all sessions recorded and available for 90 days after the last class
$130 USD
Turn letters into little works of art!
These drawn and painted letters are sure to delight—and will have you ready to create unique, jewel-like holiday cards and other festive projects.
In this two-day workshop, you’ll be guided through a series of playful exercises designed to help you create your own unusual and expressive letterforms. Working in a 3″ × 3″ format, we’ll explore how color, texture, pattern, and shape can transform individual letters into tiny works of art.
We’ll experiment with a variety of mediums and techniques, including gesso and masking-fluid resist, gouache, watercolor, metallic watercolors, dry pigments, paint pens, and more. We’ll also work on both white and black papers, discovering how the different surfaces can dramatically change the look and feel of your letters.
Whether you’re a seasoned lettering artist or new to painted letters, you’ll leave with a collection of sparkling little letterforms—and plenty of ideas for turning them into beautiful handmade holiday cards and creative projects.
What happens when a garden becomes a world of letters?
Inner Garden Letters with Marina Soria
Saturdays, November 14 & 21 plus December 5, 12, & 19, 2026
11:00am to 1:00pm Pacific Time
$145 USD
*Recordings up for 90 days after the last day of class*
Level: Intermediate and Advanced
What memories live in your inner garden?
Inspired by a 2019 visit to Monet’s gardens at Giverny, Inner Garden Letters invites you to explore calligraphy as a way of expressing memory, emotion, mood, and story.
Marina has long been inspired by Monet’s later garden paintings—works that, as his eyesight declined, moved increasingly toward abstraction. That experience led to a short poem and a body of work that included five artist’s books and two limited editions.
In this five-session workshop, you’ll be invited into that creative journey of experimentation and discovery. Together, we’ll explore how words can carry emotion and how color, form, and design can transform text into something deeply personal.
We’ll study nature as inspiration for creating original alphabets, experiment with watercolor, gouache, and pastels, and explore ways that stories can come alive through lettering, books, and artwork.
Along the way, we’ll play with paper cutting, abstraction, illustration, and simple pop-up bindings, discovering how these techniques can expand the possibilities of calligraphy and artist books.
Perhaps you have a garden you remember—the scent of a particular flower, a place where you wandered, or a garden that exists only in your imagination.
Bring those memories with you.
Together, we’ll create our own inner gardens, where calligraphy becomes a way of telling our stories.
Welcome to our Inner Garden.
A look at Marina’s books that introduce concepts and styles to be visited in Inner Garden:
2027 is shaping up to be a fabulous year!
Classes on the schedule include: Footless Fraktur with Judy Detrick; Color Theory, Tea Bag Lettering and Unconventional Pointed Pen with Suzie Beringer; Gothicized Italic with Matt Wright; White Vine with Benoit Furet; Playful Journals with Lettering with Veronica Phillips; Pretty Paisley Letters with Cecilia Boschi; Folded Pen with Victor Kams; Fraktur with Nina Tran; sessions with Sue Greenseth and Carl Rohrs, and it just keeps coming…hope to see you on our journeys into the creative!
PRE-RECORDED CLASSES AT 15% OFF!
How Our Workshops Work:
Our online workshops are open to artists, calligraphers, designers, and creatives of all experience levels. Beginners are always welcome! Each workshop includes a clearly listed skill level so you can choose the best fit.
All workshops are held live on Zoom and are recorded. Recordings are available for 90 days after the workshop ends, so you can revisit the material anytime. (Be sure to update Zoom before class.)
Most workshops take place on Saturdays from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Pacific Time on the scheduled dates. A “Check Your Time Zone” button makes it easy to see the start time where you are.
Each workshop also includes access to a private Padlet, where you’ll find class information, resources, and a space to share your work, ask questions, and receive feedback.
After you register, you’ll receive an email with workshop details approximately one week before the class begins. Supply lists are available on the workshop listing at John Neal Booksellers.
*Big thanks to John Neal Books for supporting our students with a 5% supply discount! Enter the code below at checkout to save: https://www.johnnealbooks.com/?aff=16
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If you still need assistance, we’re happy to help! Email us at info@imaginariumartstudio.com.
Where will your journey take you?
Imaginarium Art Studio® is a creative destination where calligraphy meets contemporary art, connecting artists through inspiring workshops, meaningful exploration, and world-class instruction.
We look forward to seeing you soar…
Imaginarium Art Studio is a woman owned and operated company located on the lands of the Atfalati and Kalapuya people