About Rebecca Wood
Art, Creativity, and Everyday Connection
I am an artist, educator, and writer who believes that creativity creates belonging and peace. My work blends language, environment, and visual art in ways that help people slow down and reconnect with their inner lives. I create ink drawings, prints, and digitally altered photographs inspired by the quiet rhythms of the Chesapeake Bay region. These nature-inspired artworks grow from close observation, layered marks, and a deep love for local landscapes.
Many people come to my work while searching for mindful creativity practices, art for stress relief, or slow living creative rituals. My goal is to offer art that encourages calm attention and curiosity.
Teaching, Learning, and Book Arts
I also teach middle school English Language Arts. I believe that creativity helps students build confidence and trust in their own voices. In my classroom, I use book arts, visual journaling, and hands-on making as part of literacy instruction. These practices help students see themselves as both authors and artists. They also support arts-integrated learning that strengthens literacy and expression.
As a Maryland teaching artist, I bring the same approach to community programs. Whether I am teaching adults or students, I focus on creative self-care, simple artmaking, and techniques that can calm the nervous system.
Workshops in Bookmaking and Creative Journaling
As a teaching artist, I lead community workshops in bookmaking, handmade journal construction, expressive visual storytelling, and creative journaling. These artist-led workshops guide people in building handmade books, zines, and journals that blend words, images, and personal reflection.
My bookmaking workshops and women’s creative workshops give participants time to breathe, explore, and reconnect with their own stories. They also create space for people to practice mindful creativity in community, which supports connection, belonging, and resilience.
A Creative Practice Rooted in Everyday Life
My work grows from a simple belief. Art belongs in daily life. Creativity helps us find wholeness, curiosity, and resilience. Whether I am teaching, making art, or guiding others in their own creative practice, I aim to offer experiences that honor the natural world and the stories we carry within it.
Many people come to my studio looking for creative self-care, stress relief through art, or inspiration for their own mixed media practice. I love helping people build simple rituals that support calm and curiosity.
About Art & the Everyday LLC
Art & the Everyday LLC began in 2023 as a single-member, woman-owned creative studio based in Maryland. As owner and creative director, I bring more than a decade of experience in teaching, curriculum design, and arts-integrated learning to every workshop, journal, and piece of artwork I create.
I have collaborated with organizations such as Amazon Headquarters, Ali Manning’s Handmade Book Club, and the Arlington Artists Alliance. Together, we build programs that blend creativity, reflection, and community engagement. These partnerships strengthen my work as a teaching artist and support my mission to make creative practice accessible to adults who want calm, inspiration, and hands-on making.
Art & the Everyday LLC is fully registered and independently operated. I create and facilitate all artwork, writing, and workshops myself, which allows for a personal, artist-centered approach to every offering.
A Personal Note
Art & the Everyday began years ago as a simple reflective blog at artandtheeveryday.wordpress.com. At the time, I shared small moments of beauty and creativity from my life as a young mother. I taught art and writing part-time and created most of my artwork at the kitchen table. I paid attention to textures on walks and wrote about creativity whenever I found quiet moments.
Over time, those early habits shaped a clear calling. As my work as an artist and educator grew, the blog became something larger. It became a place where art, reflection, and community could grow together. In 2023, that vision developed into Art & the Everyday LLC, a creative studio dedicated to mindful creativity, nature-inspired art, and handmade journal workshops that offer grounding, curiosity, and renewal.
“. . . at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.“
— Hokusai
