ART ALCHEMY ACADEMY

An Alternative Art School

Spark your Creativity
Awaken your Inner Artist
Make Magic ✨

ALCHEMY: A seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.

THE ART ALCHEMY ETHOS:

We believe that the most profound art involves the participation and healing of our communities.

We believe that creativity is an inherently spiritual process, and is key to enacting change in our lives, and in turn, changing the world.

 

Introducing…

The Embodied
Photography Cohort

A 3-Month Journey

✨ Cultivate a consistent creative practice in a supportive community

✨ Spark your intuition and learn a unique framework of Art Direction using Oracle Cards

✨ Build comfort and confidence with being in front of the camera

✨ Learn the basics of Embodied Photography and Creative Photo Editing
(all you need is a camera phone)

Applications are now closed.

Join the waitlist to stay in the loop ✨

 
 

THE EMERGENT CURRICULUM

 

  • Opening Ceremony to ground into the Field, cast spells, and initiate your journey as an Art Alchemist.

  • Explore Rest as a portal to creative intuition.

    3-hour retreat facilitated by the brilliant, Alexx Temeña

  • Explore our unique framework of Art Direction using Oracle Cards to develop a creative concept.

  • Explore Photography through the lens of Self Portraiture and photographing others.

    *Only equipment needed is a camera phone.

  • Activate your creative confidence and share your work and story with the world.

  • Closing Ceremony to reflect on the magic of the container and cast spells for your continued journey as an Art Alchemist.

 

PROGRAM DETAILS:

✨Weekly Live Cohort Calls
✨A Rest Retreat, guided by Alexx Temeña
✨1x 60m 1:1 Call + Oracle Reading with MIDORI
✨Access to the Art Alchemy Connection Portal
✨Access to all monthly Art Alchemy events


Applications are now closed.

Join the waitlist to stay in the loop ✨

 

PRICING / ENERGY EXCHANGE

The Sliding Scale Framework:

  • $997 pay in full (save $53)
    or $350 per month

  • $850 pay in full (save $41)
    or $297 per month

  • $550 pay in full (save $41)
    or $197 per month

 
 

MEET YOUR GUIDE

MIDORI

Self Portrait captured on iPhone

 

Hi there.

I’m MIDORI (she/her).

I am an Art Alchemist, Healer, Creative Director, and Photographer.  I founded Sanctuary Studio in the fall of 2020, to explore how photography and art can be a modality for deep connection, collaboration, and transformational healing.

But my journey here wasn’t smooth or easy.

When I was a kid, my parents took me to museums and I curiously explored the sterile, white rooms and felt a deep disconnection to what I saw.

Those early experiences subconsciously formed the belief that art was something created by a select, elite few who were innately gifted and skilled.

After climbing various ladders of “success” in the corporate, start-up, and fine art industries, I was left completely exhausted and unfulfilled.

But something changed when I picked up a camera in 2017.  I finally discovered a modality to express myself. I felt a sense of Purpose. I knew that traditional art school wasn’t in the cards for me, so I took learning into my own hands: concepting, styling, photographing and collaborating with other creatives.  

Activating my imagination and creativity opened up a window of possibility that I couldn’t access before.  Photography was the modality to make the visions I saw in my head come to life.  


Claiming the title of Artist changed my world.


What flowed through me was a
new philosophy:

I am a work of art, and my life is my canvas. 

Creativity gives me the agency to
build my world and reality.

Art is how I take my power back.


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I am ready to teach what I’ve learned, practiced and embodied.

My intention is to provide a safe, loving container to remember your Inner Artist.

To provide a holistic framework of arts education that honors and uplifts your unique creative process.

Art Alchemy Academy is the Art School I wish I had on my journey.