Pause, observe, create, reflect, share...repeat.
Artistry is a process not a product.  Artworks are documentations of the creative process and visual thinking of the artist.
Focus on exploring and enjoying the process and art will be the result.
                                                                                                                                                          ~Helen R. Klebesadel


Welcome to Creativity Lessons with Helen Klebesadel
Creativity Coaching and Consulting
Group and individual Guided Art Intensives
Watercolor Workshops
In-person (post pandemic) and online.

​Not sure where you would like to start?  Are you looking for a way to bring creativity to your life in greater measure during these unusual times?

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to find others interested in expanding the place of art in their lives.


You can see more of Helen Klebesadel's watercolors on her art website at Klebesadel.com

Introductions:

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Helen Klebesadel maintains an art studio in Madison, Wisconsin.  A popular instructor, coach and consultant, she is best known for her large scale narrative watercolors addressing women-centered and environmental themes.  Helen offers art creativity coaching and consulting sessions, as well as art-based classes and workshops in a number of formats custom designed to fit the individual or  group, the space, and the creative needs of participants.


This site is the home for Helen Klebesadel's face-to-face and on-line adult classes, workshops, creativity coaching and consultations. 

Recent Articles:
​Pandemic Pivot Advice: How to Teach Art Workshops Online, Artwork Archive Blog, March 2021

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Helen Klebesadel (MFA 1989), maintains her studio art practice in Madison, Wi.  In addition to exhibiting and selling her art. she teaches art and creativity workshops nationally and internationally.  Helen has taught for UW-Madison, Beloit College, and Lawrence University, where she earned tenure and chaired the art department.  Helen has taught contemporary theory, art foundations, 2-D and 3-D art courses and workshops for over 25 years.   In addition to her expertise in watercolors and other painting media, she has taught all forms of printmaking, as well as drawing, computer aided imaging and some book arts.   

Helen is also a certified Creativity Coach through the Creativity Coaching Association.  In addition to traditional 'talk' coaching, she  regularly uses mixed media and collage as part of her arts-based creativity coaching workshops.  Helen believes art-making is a form of problem solving that can be applied to enhance and expand the place of creativity in our lives and our actions in the world.

Helen also has a line of fabric and wallpaper based on her watercolors for sale at http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/helenklebesadel