Looking for something creative to do in Waukesha?
Moods is a creative empowerment art studio offering beginner-friendly expressive art sessions designed especially for women in midlife.
Welcome! If you’ve been searching for beginner art classes, but don’t feel like a “real artist,” you’re exactly who this studio was created for. We offer relaxed expressive art sessions for women navigating midlife, peri-menopause and life transitions. Women who want a place rediscover and reconnect to themselves through creativity.
While we are located in Waukesha, we welcome women from surrounding communities as well. Mukwonago, Brookfield, Pewaukee, New Berlin, Oconomowoc and Lake Country come create with us!
A judgment-free, playful, rule-breaking creative experience where bad art isn’t a failure. It’s the assignment.
This isn’t an art class.
There are no “right” outcomes.
No critiques. No comparisons.
It’s about the act of creating, not the result.
Grab some supplies, create something, laugh a little and leave feeling lighter.
Bad art welcome.
No experience required.
At Moods, we don’t care if it’s good. We care if you show up.
Messy counts. Weird counts. Half-finished absolutely counts.
This isn’t about talent, masterpieces, or fancy technique.
It’s about permission.
Permission to experiment.
To make a mess.
To follow a feeling instead of a plan.
To create without needing it to mean anything, prove anything, or turn into something useful.
We make terrible art on purpose
– turns out, it’s kinda life changing
When you give yourself permission to create without judgment, something shifts.
Your shoulders drop.
Your mind chills out.
And suddenly—you’re not performing for anyone.
You stop trying to impress.
You stop spiraling.
You stop asking, “Is this good enough?”
You lighten up and start trusting yourself again.
Creativity stops being about making something “beautiful” and starts being about the moment.
No goals. No gold stars.
Come ruin a perfectly good
– we have plenty
piece of paper
This studio is for women who:
- Need a break from being responsible for everyone else.
- Are struggling in midlife
- Crave connection.
- Aren’t having any fun.
- Need something different.
- Feel bored/lost/frustrated
- Want to laugh.
- Are tired of shopping/drinking for fun.
- Secretly always wanted to be an artist.
If any of this sounds like you,
come hang out! Bring a friend.
email: monica@moodsartstudio.com
If you think you’re “not creative”
– Congratulations, you’re exactly who this place is for.
Here’s how it works
You show up as you are.
We give you simple prompts (or not) and materials.
You create without pressure, critique or comparison.
You have silly fun.
You leave feeling lighter than you arrived.
Come make mediocre art
Perfection called….
– we didn’t answer
Hi, I’m Monica —
artist, founder, and the woman who decided the pressure to be a good artist was wildly overrated.
I believe that strange art, crooked art, chaotic art, and “what even is that?” art feels amazing!
So I created Moods & Sh!tty Art Club for the women who were once imaginative, curious, playful….and somewhere along the way got busy being overly responsible adults.
My studio is simply an invitation to come back to that part of yourself.
At Moods, the goal isn’t to become a great artist.
The goal is to remember how good it feels to be creative.
My studio is open during select weekday hours that work around my life as a mom of two girls.
But, creativity should be flexible.
If you have a group that wants to create together, or you’re looking for an evening or weekend studio experience, I’d love to host you.
Just send me a message and we’ll figure it out.
email: monica@moodsartstudio.com
Sometimes the most rebellious thing a woman can do
– is create something that is really terrible.
APRIL
OPEN STUDIO APRIL
Tuesdays & Fridays 10am-1pm
Come for 20 minutes or stay for a few hours.
Paint. Collage. Scribble. Make something strange.
Or, just sit, sip coffee and hang out with other women who needed a creative break.
Make something gloriously average. Expectations low.
$25 to create
Supplies/Coffee included/BYOB
email: monica@moodsartstudio.com
MAY
MAY 23RD: 9am-Noon
Saturday AM creative reset.
Sometimes you don’t need a full weekend away.
You just need a few quiet hours to breathe, laugh, and make something with your hands.
Saturday Mornings at Moods are a gentle creative reset for women who want to step away from their routines and reconnect with their creativity.
No experience required. No pressure to make anything impressive.
Just space to experiment, play and follow your curiosity.
We’ll start with coffee, ease into a relaxed creative session and spend the morning making art that doesn’t have to be good to feel good.
Most women leave feeling lighter, calmer, and a little more like themselves again. A great way to start the weekend off right.
$25 to create
Supplies/Coffee included/BYOB
MAY 29TH: 6PM
GALLERY SHOW
Emerging artist’s. Women 40+
Come check out art that almost stayed hidden! Many of the women have never shown their work before, let’s support their creativity.
ANYTIME
Private Studio Gatherings
Want the studio all to yourselves?
Moods is available for small private creative gatherings. These relaxed sessions are perfect for women who want to spend time together doing something a little different.
No experience needed. No artistic pressure. Just a fun, creative atmosphere.
Bring your friends, make something unexpected, laugh a lot and enjoy a few hours in the studio together.
Great for:
-girls’ nights
-birthday gatherings
-book clubs
-team bonding
-stressed out working women
-creative curiosity nights
-women who want to try something new together.
All supplies are provided. You just show up and create. Yes, you can bring treats/drinks if you want.
Evening and weekend sessions are available by request.
$35 pp
Supplies included
email: monica@moodsartstudio.com