New Year, New Art Studio, New Classes!

By January 3, 2018Studio Newz

The end of the year brought with it the end of an era…the time of teaching at home in my cozy little art studio is over.  Zoning prohibitions and cranky neighbors combined to force some changes.  As I faced the roadblock, I had a choice of how to deal with it.

I could stop teaching, but I love my students and relish our little art tribe, so that was not an acceptable option.

I could fight the community zoning and rail against the folks who complained about my teaching at home, but I don’t want to spend my energy dealing with negativity.

I needed to pivot and try to move around the roadblock.  However, no obvious solution was there.

All through the month of December I tried to trust that everything would work out…and hoped that maybe it might even work out for the best.  🙏

What happened?  Beautiful things happened!  Friends offered me the use of their art studios…what a gift!  I received all kinds of encouragement and support from fellow artists, students, neighbors, and even those outside the art community. How wonderful is that?!. But wait, it gets even better!

I spent the time between the holidays trying to visualize my ideal solution, and it seemed as if my own art studio or a shared art studio would be my dream.  Sometimes I felt as if I was winging it, other times I hoped that my heart’s cry would somehow attract the perfect solution…

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My dream art studio looked like this:

  • Close to home
  • Safe area
  • Parking
  • Good Accessibility/No stairs
  • Good light
  • Good energy
  • Ready to use Bathroom
  • Utility sink
  • Space for all my students and the tables I like to provide them
  • extra storage room for me and potentially for my students
  • Minimal build-out requirements
  • Affordability
  • Availability Now
  • A Studio Partner- Someone with whom I could share space and maybe even collaborate.

Where this ideal place might be was a mystery, but I decided to declare my dream to the world.  I did so via social media and kept talking about it to everyone I could.

 

I believe in the power of declaring your dreams and visualizing your goals.  That’s why setting goals and day dreaming are routine parts of my process…in art and in life. It was no different in my search for an art studio!

 

The New Year rolled around, and the heavens actually answered my cry 💫  Along came a brand new opportunity to rent an art studio and share it (for at least a little while) with a talented and sweet fellow artist!  How immediate, and how miraculous does that seem???!!! After investigating this studio and what it has to offer, guess what?  The space meets every one of my ideals for a dream studio! Miracles do happen folks!!  I can’t wait to show it to you in person…but first I have to move in!!

What does that mean for the future?  For now it means that all my January classes will be held in the new art studio.  If you’ve signed up for class, please note this change.  I will follow up with emails to those who’ve signed up, but even if my scheduling app tells you differently, this is the correct address for all January 2018 Classes:

New Art Studio Location:

9713 N Kings Hwy Unit 207, Myrtle Beach, SC, 29572  

(Located in Restaurant Row south of the Waterway Hills Golf Course and across from Thoroughbreds restaurant.  

There is an elevator near Jersey Mikes and you can take the walkway overlooking the waterway out back to the studio entrance 😊) 

For those of you who have offered me your support and love during this time, my heart is overflowing with gratitude!!  Thank you for sharing this journey with me.  I can’t wait to see what wonderful opportunities await us all in the new space!  I hope you’ll consider coming to play in the paint with me one day soon.  If you’d like to sign up for an upcoming class, I will be teaching on Tuesday afternoons and all day on Wednesdays during January.  Here is a link to sign up via my scheduling app:

https://calendly.com/rzdybel

The class schedule may change in February, so stay tuned to my newzletter, blog, Instagram and Facebook posts for updates.  I hope to be sharing pictures of the new space very soon.  Let me know if you’ve had similar experiences with inviting solutions to your problems through prayer and invitation.  I love sharing our stories.

Love and Light,

Myrtle Beach Artist Rebecca Zdybel

Myrtle Beach Artist Rebecca Zdybel

Sharing the journey of life and art.

 

Author Rebecca Zdybel

Artist, Instructor, Art-Travel Instructor - Spread Light, Share Love, DO Art! Rebecca Z Artist (Rebecca Zdybel) is an artist and instructor in Myrtle Beach, SC. She blogs and teaches locally and internationally. Sign up for her blog, classes, workshops, art travel tours, or see her work at RebeccaZArtist.com.

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Join the discussion 8 Comments

  • Happy New Year Rebecca,

    I am so happy for you ! I SO enjoyed your classes would love to see the new studio ,but I moved back to Rock Hill SC. Let me know if you teach an on line program it !!!!! think about it would be great…

    Blessings
    Dianne K Mercer

    • Hi Dianne, I am so happy to hear from you! I wondered whatever happened to you last year…and I’m glad you checked back in. I don’t have any current plans to do online classes, because frankly it would mean more time in front of a computer and less time with my art buddies. Trying to follow the path that brings me the most joy, and that personal path works best for me. However, I NEVER say never anymore. You just never know where life will take you…and this studio is a good example of that! Thanks for the love and encouragement. Blessings to you and yours. ❤️

  • Dick Fremberg says:

    Congratulations on finding a great teaching venue. Good things happen to good people. See you next Wednesday.

  • Fantastic! This is exciting! I have watched the universe provide for years! I am always amazed by the power of miracles! Hope this all works out beautifully and I am sure it will! Friends in art and life, kimberly grigg!

  • Erika Pichon de Bury says:

    Hi Rebecca,
    I am thrilled and very happy for you. Good things happen to good people!
    Lots of love,
    Erika

    • That’s kind if you to say, and I do believe in the law of attraction. Expect good things and you will be right. Expect bad things and you will also be right. I’m expecting the best, and expecting it for you as well. ❤️

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