Creative Arts Community

Starting with Stencils
A week-long residential workshop with Linda Berkley
August 9-15th 2026

Join an exploration of image-making beginning in stencil designs. Develop and create your own stencils applying dynamic positive and negative shape relationships. Spend a week immersed in nature at this residential workshop offered by the Creative Arts Community at the Menucha Retreat & Conference Center overlooking the gorgeous Columbia River Gorge. All meals and lodging included! A great place to bring out your creativity and make new friends!

Explore Cyanotypes
A week-long residential cyanotype workshop with Claudia Hollister
August 9-15th 2026

Deep dive into the magic of cyanotype printmaking! This immersive workshop takes you from crafting strongdigital negatives to creating richly layered, expressive cyanotypes prints with Negative Transparency Films.Spend a week immersed in nature at this residential workshop offered by the Creative Arts Community at the Menucha Retreat and Conference Center overlooking the gorgeous Columbia River Gorge. All meals and lodging included! A great place to bring out your creativity and make new friends!

Uncontained:Finding Shape for your Memoir
A week-long residential writing workshop with Anndee Hochman
August 2nd-8th 2026

This workshop invites participants to experiment with various forms of memoir, including "flash" pieces,fragmented/episodic tellings, graphic/illustrated memoir, "hermit crab" pieces (memoirs in the form of recipes,want ads, instructional lists, etc) and pieces that use second- or third-person narration. Spend a week immersedin nature at this residential workshop offered by the Creative Arts Community at the Menucha Retreat andConference Center overlooking the gorgeous Columbia River Gorge. All meals and lodging included! A greatplace to bring out your creativity and make new friends!

Waxed Powder Painting
A week-long residential workshop with Corey S. Pressman
August 9-15th 2026

This workshop offers an immersive introduction to Waxed Powder Painting, a luminous medium combiningpowdered pigments and beeswax on paper. Spend a week immersed in nature at this residential workshopoffered by the Creative Arts Community at the Menucha Retreat and Conference Center overlooking thegorgeous Columbia River Gorge. All meals and lodging included! A great place to bring out your creativityand make new friends!

REGISTER NOW!To learn more about our class schedule, pricing, and registration, visit our website or contact us!

Painting with Clay
A week-long residential ceramics workshopwith Kim Murton

Learn illustrative decorating techniques using colored slips and underglazes on hand builtpottery. Spend a week immersed in nature at this residential workshop offered by the CreativeArts Community at the Menucha Retreat and Conference Center overlooking the gorgeousColumbia River Gorge. All meals and lodging included! A great place to bring out yourcreativity and make new friends!REGISTER NOW!To learn more about our class schedule, pricing, and registration, visit our website or contact us!August 2nd-8th 2026

Scholarships Still Available

Apply Today!

Creative Arts Community has two $500 Partial Scholarships available. Open until filled. To apply please click on this link: Partial Scholarship

Creative Arts Community has one Clark County Emerging Artist Full Ride Award available. You must live in Clark County and be 21 years old by August 1, 2026. Please click on this link: Clark County Emerging Artist Award

The extended deadline for the Clark County Award is February 25.

We would love to see you in August!

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For 60 years, the Creative Arts Community has provided unique residential workshops at Menucha. Imagine summer in the Pacific Northwest, a whole week to focus on art, make new friends, continue friendships, take your art to a new level, and rejuvenate your spirit; that’s what happens during Creative Arts Community at Menucha.

In two separate, one-week sessions in August, we offer hands-on exploratory workshops focused across a variety of arts disciplines.​

Registration opens Wednesday, March 4, at 10am PST

Registration will be on Menucha's website (https://www.menucha.org/programs/creative-arts). Classes often sell out quickly, so if you have your heart set on one, plan to register right away.

Creative Arts Community

Apply! Apply! Apply! Creative Arts Community still has two $500 Partial Scholarships available to attend your choice of art workshop at Menucha Retreat & Conference Center this summer. These two scholarships are open to anyone -living anywhere - needing extra support to attend.

And drum roll please!!! Another golden opportunity!!!

CAC also has a Clark County Emerging Artist Full Ride Award available thanks to the generous grant from Ripple Impact NW. The new deadline for this award is February 25th. You must live in Clark County and be 21 years old by August 1, 2026.

Our Website is - creativeartscommunity.org/scholarships

Join CAA at Mulieribus's Among Women, a community event held in honor of International Women’s Day! Happening on March 8... from 4-6 at Irving St. Studio in Portland. RSVP required (see poster for more info).

The gathering serves as a vibrant showcase of local talent and a tribute to the innovative women who shape Portland’s artistic community.

Featured artists this year include the In Mulieribus ensemble, singer song writer Edna Vasquez, dancer and choreographer Chisao Hata, poet Janice Gould, and visual artist Mini Giri. Beyond performances, the event features light food and refreshments as well as a communal art project where guests can express their own creativity and participate in a collective tribute to women in their lives.

Debra Chase, President of Creative Arts Community, wrote in recent email to Oregon Art Watch that event participants will be offered art materials to honor a woman mentor in their life. But before the event, said Chase, you are “encouraged to make a work of art in any medium, take a photo of it and email it to ([email protected]) to print and hang at the event.” Deadline to email your work is March 5. Sadly, the Among Women Event is Sold Out this year but we look forward to you coming next year to a larger venue. Last year was the first year and this year the venue holds 450, so next year will be even bigger!

It's nearly here! Join us at Creative Art Community and make your donation matter. Help CAC secure another 60 years of summer creative art camp in the Columbia Gorge at the beautiful Menucha Retreat & Conference Center! Donating is easy fast and tax-deductible! Go to our website to donate!