Paint Your Own Expressive Self-Portrait! Guided by meditation and reflection prompts, this class invites you to create a self-portrait that feels deeply personal and renewing. Bring your favorite selfie and a journal—we’ll provide all the painting supplies.

No experience? No problem. Our classes are designed to be welcoming and fun for everyone, whether it’s your first time painting or you’ve been creating for years. The gallery is always bringing fresh, exciting workshops like this to Chestnut Hill, giving the community new ways to explore creativity and reconnect with themselves!

About The Instructor

Chanelle René is a contemporary figurative painter + mural artist whose work blends abstract-realism with vivid, emotional compositions. Her jewel-tone, expressive paintings explore identity through the lens of culture, pure self-essence, and (re)claiming spaces.

 Chanelle’s acclaimed ‘Grant Street Beach’ series centers nostalgia, belonging and joy on Cape May’s historic Black beach. Inspired by her childhood summers and family photographs, these dreamlike…