Adult Art Workshops
New this summer — creative programming isn't just for the kids. The CCC is introducing art workshops for adults led by local and visiting guest artists. From painting and drawing to mixed-media sessions, these drop-in and multi-week offerings give grown-ups a chance to explore their own creativity in a relaxed, social setting.
Workshops are scheduled during off-peak hours, so whether you're a year-round resident or here for the summer, there's space for you to make something beautiful. Check back for the full schedule of artists and sessions as summer approaches.
Songa Somatics: A 2-Day Immersive
An Introduction to Embodied Transformation- What if the change you've been reaching for isn't something to figure out — but something your body already knows how to become? Join us for a two-day immersion that invites you to return to the body as a site of healing, power, and creative knowing. Rooted in somatic practice and inspired by the work of the Strozzi Institute for Somatics, this experience moves beyond insight into lived transformation. Through guided practices in breath, movement, voice, and relational awareness, you'll explore how patterns shaped by past experiences live in the body — and how new ways of being can be practiced into existence.
Together, we'll cultivate presence, resilience, and the capacity to respond to life with greater clarity and choice. You'll leave with simple, grounding practices to support you in daily life, anchoring you in a deeper trust of your own embodied intelligence — enlivening the truth of who you are, and embodying it in how you live. Lunch & Snacks provided
Special Event sponsored by the MV Book Festival
Christin's stunning new book, Flora Culture: How Flowers Shape Our World (Rizzoli, 2026), is the kind of volume you'll want to keep close all year. With more than 250 images gathered from over forty countries, the book is a visual feast — but it's also a thoughtful, witty exploration of our oldest and most enduring relationship: the human love of flowers. Christin weaves together art, ecology, and history, inviting readers to think about aesthetics, seasonality, fair trade, indigeneity, and what it means to live well with plants on a changing planet.
For an Island community like ours, where gardens, wildflowers, and a fierce devotion to our native landscape sit at the heart of daily life, Flora Culture feels especially resonant. Martha's Vineyard has long been shaped by a deep relationship with its flora — from the sandplain grasslands and stone-walled cottage gardens to the conservation work that protects what makes this place feel like home. Christin's book gives language and imagery to that quiet devotion, and reminds us that how we tend to flowers is, in many ways, how we tend to each other and to the earth.
