2025 Wrapped - Inner Peace Art Studio Style

Wow. These numbers are wild.

Katie here, and in the grand scheme of the internet, Inner Peace Art Studio is a small community. But what we’re building together is anything but small.

There’s something deeply comforting about knowing that no matter what’s happening in the world, no matter how chaotic, heavy, or uncertain things feel, you can log into a virtual healing art workshop and paint with friends from around the globe. Every single week. A standing date with color, breath, and people who get it.

That alone is powerful.

But the women+ in this community? They take it even further. Because that’s just who they are.

Check out the 2025 Inner Peace Art Studio Wrapped:

2025 Inner Peace Art Studio Wrapped Summary

141 live virtual healing art workshops

Over 40 Creative Hour body-doubling and co-creating sessions
298 total community members
100% of members active in 2025
Top contributors: Judie, Becca, Dina
Approximately 2,000 total community posts
16,900 total comments and reactions
Most commented post: “What’s on your art supply bucket list?” with over 70 comments
Approximately 7,500 hours spent engaging in the healing art platform
Over 25 art supply prize packs distributed
Two community mantras: “FAFAO (if you know, you know)” and “But for now, we paint”
2026 preview includes more live classes, more community events, and more in-person gatherings

What Happens When Women Create Just to Create in a Safe Space

Here’s what I get to witness on a regular basis:

Women who once felt invisible now showing up to committee meetings and community spaces because painting in a virtual class with sweet compassionate souls helped them rebuild confidence.
A member who chose her 2025 One Word last year and followed it all the way into drafting an entire novel.
People creating for the very first time in their lives, arriving cautiously, then realizing how safe, welcoming, and genuinely kind this space is after their first class.
People sponsoring memberships for others when folks fall on hard times.
Members who were terrified to share their art… sharing it anyway, with their Inner Peace Art friends cheering them on.
Women who felt so changed by this work that they decided to bring it to others, enrolling in things like Zentangle teacher training or exploring their own creative facilitation paths (some are doing it with me in January!).
The ones who show up with bells on, every week, infusing joy, silliness, and play into every single class. FAFO, anyone? You had to be there.
The ones who laugh with me when I do something especially weird, ADHD, or very Aquarius-core, thank you for matching my energy and accepting me in all my wild weird wonderful chronic illness-fueled forms.
To have a place we can just all truly be ourselves is something special.
Families creating together. Kids painting nearby. Elders with dementia listening in and giving it a whirl. Pets fully passed out on the floor because, yes, apparently cats and dogs find my painting class voice soothing (this is a real thing I’ve been told more than once).
Members exploring how art can support other communities, asking bigger questions about access, care, and creativity beyond themselves.

These are just the things I can think of off the top of my head!

A new member is experiencing the magic of the Inner Peace Art Studio process and community

The Ripple Effect Is Real

And then there’s the data-driven ripple impact we can actually quantify, because we make sure that the art doesn’t stop with us.

This isn’t a membership. It’s a MOVEMENT.

Together this year, we’ve:

Our Make Art Make Change fund allowed us to donate over $2,500 total (plus several match donations to nonprofits including NAMI, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, a domestic violence organization, The Empower Network for chronically ill & disabled creators, and disease-related research foundations connected directly to our members’ lives including the Dystonia Research Fund & Celiac research organizations.
Sent 200+ artist trading cards through the mail and donated to organizations across the world - tiny, unexpected moments of joy showing up in real mailboxes
Shared class creations as gifts for loved ones, caregivers, and complete strangers
We welcomed over 30 new lifetime studio VIP members

And that list could keep going. And going. And going. This community is redefining what art-making and community connection really mean.

A behind-the-scenes look at our Artist Trading Card swap - The Slow Down Swap - in September/October 2025

Why Art Matters for Everyone

Art is one of the most powerful connectors we have.

It connects people to themselves. People to each other. Thoughts to emotions. Grief to meaning. Isolation to community.

It connects places, memories, bodies, stories, and hope.

I am endlessly grateful to be on this adventure with you, to witness what happens when women are given permission to create without pressure, perfection, or performance. It truly is the greatest honor of my life. Seeing you light up when you realize the power of art gives me the deepest joy I’ve ever known.

And I’m especially excited to bring you even more meaningful, evidence-informed, research-backed healing art programming in 2026 as I continue my journey with the Arts in Medicine Masters program at the University of Florida.

This is just the beginning. And I’m so glad you’re here!

Opportunities to join us in 2026 include Healing Art Live, Peaceful Painting Club, and Inner Peace Healing Art Academy; along with our once-a-month-creative wellness workshop. Sign up to the newsletter below to get updates.

See you in a class soon! -Katie