Lapis Lazuli Suite builds on Opal Suite plus a monthly 1-hour private online session at Nadja's.
Provides private 1:1 online sessions with Jessie Holmes for art-related development. Such as—but not limited to—review/feedback sessions, personalized workshops, submission or exhibition support, materials and technique, art history review, experimentation sessions, or to be a sounding board for you and your current projects. Small groups are possible if all members are enrolled in the Lapis Lazuli suite.
New members begin with a co-design conversation to customize monthly one-hour sessions to their goals, methods, and process in a private space.
This facilitated one-hour weekly drawing session centers on observational drawing. Members investigate light, shade, composition, and texture with pencil, charcoal, ink, graphite or other materials that suit your drawing needs. Drawing everyday objects and lived-in scenes directly from their immediate surroundings, indoors or outdoors. Each session includes warm-up exercises and a longer sustained drawing period. The focus is on experimentation rather than final outcomes.
Automatic writing is practiced during these sessions. It channels subconscious impulses by writing without conscious control or editing, surfacing unfiltered ideas and insights. How it works: guided sessions are 20 minutes online with minimal exchange: a brief breathwork launch, two short writing bursts, and silent integration—no sharing required. Group accountability supports regular practice, sustaining creative flow, emotional release, and clarity, while building a regular, low-pressure writing practice.
Utopia Parkway Community Hall, our Discord channel where all members connect, to chat, network, meet new people, plan, share resources in real time—along with regular postings of upcoming hotel events and news. Named after Joseph Cornell's lifelong Queens home at 37-08 Utopia Parkway.
Concurrent meditation, rest, or prayer. Participants practice their individual methods—breathwork, mantra, prayer, or stillness—without guidance or exchange. How it works: sessions run 25 minutes via video platform (cameras optional, all muted). Twenty minutes are devoted to silent practice, with brief openings and closings from the facilitator to mark time. Participants may exit quietly anytime, gradually extending their practice.
A one‑hour, bi-weekly, online reading and discussion session facilitated by Jessie Holmes brings participants together to explore selected texts. The atmosphere is conversational and inclusive, encouraging open dialogue and the exchange of ideas rather than formal instruction.
Every other week the hotel hosts an "open read" hour where members can come and share their writing of any kind. Writing may be completed or works in progress, published, unpublished, rough drafts, reminder notes or shopping lists are all welcome-
Joining without using voice or camera is always an option.