Private SessionsThe studio comes to you
Living rooms, birthdays, showers, team offsites. I carry the mess in and carry it back out.
OverviewYou invite. I handle the rest.
A private session is the full Unwind experience wherever you are: I arrive with paper, paint, pastels, drop cloths, and a plan, set up in 30 minutes, and guide your group through two hours of easy, funny, surprisingly quiet making. Your only job is the guest list.
These are built for groups that are done with restaurant catch-ups: birthdays, baby showers, book clubs that stopped reading the book, and teams that need an hour where nobody says the word roadmap.
For adults
The living room session:
Birthdays, showers, book clubs that stopped reading the book. Two hours of easy, guided making at your place, up to 10 guests.
The team reset:
An hour where nobody says the word "roadmap." Built for workplaces and offsites, up to about 12 people.
For kids
The birthday party:
Guided, glorious mess at your home or a partner space, up to 10 kids. Want it themed? Intergalactic mermaid tea party, dinosaur disco, whatever your kid's dreaming up, I'll build the whole thing around it. Let's chat.
One-on-one sessions:
Some kids do better without a busy room. These are quiet, weekly one-on-ones, just me and your kid, a new activity each time, at your place or mine, wherever they're most comfortable. No pressure to keep pace with anyone. It's calm, it's theirs, and it's honestly some of my favorite work. If a group feels like too much for your child, this might be the one. Tell me about them and we'll figure it out.
Creativity camp:
Whenever school's out, a week of mornings making real art at my place: summer, spring break, winter holidays. Drop-off, a small group of eight, big messy projects, and a fresh idea every day. Ages 5 to 12. (Think summer camp, minus the cabins and the bug spray.)
FAQs
What do you need from us?
1
A table, chairs, and a sink somewhere in the building. That's it. I bring the paper, paint, pastels, drop cloths, and the plan, and I set up in about 30 minutes.
Do we need to be artsy?
2
Not even a little. Every session is fully guided, and the whole point is that nobody has to be good at it. I've run these for people who hadn't touched paint since grade school.
How far do you travel, and how much notice do you need?
3
Anywhere around Kirkland and the Eastside. A couple weeks' notice is ideal for a party or team session, and a bit more for a camp week, but ask me anyway. I can sometimes move fast.
“I hosted my book club and not one of us looked at a phone for two hours. Darcy just quietly ran the whole thing.”
— Corinne“Sarah truly enjoys her private sessions with Darcy and looks forward to Fridays the entire week.”
— Mariam“Darcy was fantastic, the perfect balance of gentle guidance and creative freedom.”
— Becky“Darcy is a magician. After she left, my wife and I spent an hour doing art… with Sarah as the teacher.”
— Akil