May Adult Workshop – Adult Abstract Painting Workshop
Facilitated by Sara Noori
Engage in a process-based approach to painting that emphasizes exploration over outcome. Through guided exercises and technical experimentation with layering, movement, and mark-making, you will be invited to experiment with building a visual language rooted in intuition and creative risk-taking.
A mix of visual and creative prompts will guide the process and spark inspiration, offering accessible ways to generate ideas and move into image-making. We will also explore how to “read” abstract paintings, not by figuring them out, but through personal observation and interpretation.
No prior experience is necessary. Enjoy a supportive, open-ended workshop to learn, explore, reflect, and create!
Artist Bio
Sara Noori
Sara Noori is an artist and educator whose work explores identity, collaboration, and the body, both individual and collective, as a host for culture, memory, and creative survival. They have organized and facilitated public programs including Family Day at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; led public and private art classes at elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the Chicago area; taught art at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago; and collaborated with the Community Belonging program at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY. In 2023, Noori was invited to co-create a site-specific mural titled Homecoming for Amy Sherald’s Portrait of Breonna Taylor: In the Garden at the Speed Art Museum. As an arts educator they have presented as part of the 2026 Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks in Louisville, and worked with the Backside Learning Center at Churchill Downs, Dreams With Wings, First Hour Grief, Fund for the Arts, Frazier History Museum, and in school classrooms supporting students, participants, and communities through material exploration, collaborative making, and confidence-building practices. Across institutions and community spaces, their work prioritizes care, adaptability, and the cultivation of environments where creative growth can take root.
Artwork credit
“ It’s my house, and I live here.”
Stretcher bars, plastic, glitter, acrylic paints, plastisol, tissue paper, synthetic hair, screen printed, and hand-detailed Persian rug reproduction
2017–2022
