Artist-led creative experiences for private groups, celebrations, and gatherings.
Conjure Ink workshops are built around making, not performing.
Elisha Marie leads private art experiences in Chicago for people who want something more personal than a standard party activity and more relaxed than a formal class.
The goal is simple: give people enough structure to feel confident, enough freedom to make something individual, and enough room for the experience itself to feel memorable.
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MEET ELISHA
What a Workshop Can Look Like
Private workshops can be adapted around the group, occasion, and setting.
Possible directions may include:
- observational drawing
- still life
- portrait or figure-inspired drawing
- watercolor
- symbolic or personal image-making
- collaborative art activities
- creative exercises built around memory, story, or theme
- beginner-friendly drawing foundations
The exact format depends on the group and the kind of experience you want to create.
Good for
Birthdays
A creative gathering that gives everyone something to do, make, and take home.
Bachelorettes & Friend Groups
A more intimate alternative to the usual activity lineup, especially for groups that want something artistic, social, and low-pressure.
Family Gatherings
A shared art experience that can work across ages when the project is designed appropriately.
Corporate & Team Events
Creative sessions for teams that want something tactile, collaborative, and different from the usual networking format.
Private Celebrations
Anniversaries, showers, reunions, dinner-party add-ons, and other gatherings that benefit from a hands-on creative element.
Why Elisha
Elisha’s teaching background is part of her art practice, not an add-on.
She taught foundational art skills at Redwood Art Studio in Brooklyn, helping students build confidence through drawing and watercolor, and she has spent years working in an educational environment at Chicago Waldorf School.
That experience shapes the way she leads groups now.
Clear guidance.
A calm room.
Enough structure to help people begin.
Enough space for the work to still feel like theirs.
Beginner-Friendly by Design
You do not need to know how to draw.
You do not need to be “the artistic one.”
Private workshops are designed to meet people where they are, with demonstrations, prompts, and practical guidance that make the process accessible without flattening everyone into the same result.
The point is not perfection.
It is attention, experimentation, and making something with your own hand.
How Private Workshops Work
1. Tell Elisha About the Group
Share:
- occasion
- approximate number of guests
- age range
- location
- preferred date
- desired length
- any theme or creative direction
- whether you already have a project in mind
2. Shape the Experience
Elisha will recommend a workshop structure based on the group, timing, and setting.
3. Receive a Custom Quote
Pricing is based on the workshop format, number of participants, materials, travel, preparation, and project needs.
4. Make Something Together
Elisha leads the group through the process while keeping the atmosphere relaxed, creative, and responsive.
A Different Kind of Event Experience
If you want Elisha creating artwork for guests rather than leading the group, explore live event illustration in Chicago.
If you are looking for a personal piece of artwork rather than a group experience, visit illustration commissions.
The Art Behind the Workshop
Elisha’s wider practice moves through drawing, tattooing, portraiture, symbolism, memory, and the human figure.
Her workshops carry that same belief that drawing is not only about producing a polished image.
It is also a way of noticing.
Of slowing down.
Of translating what you see into something made by hand.
Explore selected work by Elisha Marie.
Make Something Together
Tell Elisha what you are planning and who will be in the room.
She can help shape the creative part from there.
INQUIRE ABOUT A PRIVATE ART WORKSHOP
For studio notes, new work, booking openings, and first looks at what Elisha is making next: