Sanctuary Studio - Welcome to Sanctuary Studio

Welcome to Sanctuary Studio

Sonora in front of her painting, FireBirth

Sanctuary Studio is the art studio of mixed media artist, designer and creative business consultant Lisa Sonora Beam. We host classes with fantastic artists who teach their process for creating book arts, visual journals, altered books, mail art, writing, painting, collage and other fun stuff. We are located in a renovated warehouse in Marin County, California (just North of San Francisco).

If you are an artists stymied about how to make your creative dreams real, then don't miss our exclusive retreat in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: The Creative Entrepreneur: Make Your Creative and Business Ideas Real.

Do you have your own San Francisco Bay Area visual art events to share? Then check out our new Yahoo! group, ArtGangSF. This moderated group is designed to help artists network and share their work, ideas and happenings.

Making art and nurturing ideas is by nature a solitary act. Sanctuary Studio is a place to find comradarie, support, inspiration, and new techniques for living and working artfully.

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Happy Summer!

This year has been crazy busy: Digital Hive, my design and consulting biz is buzzing like mad (good mad!), and I've just finished writing my book, The Creative Entrepreneur: A DIY Guidebook for Making Business Ideas Real.

My apologies for the lack of action on my blog during this time. There's a lot to share, I've just been channelling all that energy into the book. What keeps me motivated is thinking of all of you creatives out there who are stuggling with various business challenges—there is a better way to work and create, and I'm honored to share it all. The world needs your work. The more successful artists in the world, the better it is for all of us.