24-Hour Sacred Art Retreat: Contemplating the Christmas Mystery

Paint your annual Christmas card with teaching artist, Hannah Charlton. In a step-by-step process, participants will create tiny medieval-style paintings using historical techniques and modern materials. This contemplative practice will produce a Nativity illumination featuring an angel with the infant Jesus, all in a friendly, relaxing atmosphere. This is a chance to work in an old art form and deepen our understanding of the past. Retreatants will return home with all of their art supplies and a Christmas card to print for their Christmas card list! $155 per person, $265 per couple (1 night lodging & up to 3 meals).

Bio – Hannah Charlton
Hannah Charlton is an artist living in Washington State. She interned at the Grunewald Guild in Leavenworth, Washington, and attended Whitworth University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 2014, studying art, graphic design, and history. She found the ideal intersection of the three areas of study in medieval manuscript illumination. “An illuminated manuscript is a handwritten, hand-decorated page or book. It is ‘illuminated’ in that the text is lit up with decoration.”
Hannah was the Creator-in-Residence at Sorensen Elementary, in February 2019, and the Lab, at the North Spokane Public Library, in December 2018 and 2020. She has shown her work at multiple exhibitions.