create. connect. belong.
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A New Creative Experience Begins
A six-day mixed-media + jewelry retreat designed to expand your creativity, your skills, and your
circle.
Since 2011, Vivi Magoo has been built on something more than classes.
It’s been about connection.
About creativity.
About finding your people.
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What began as a jewelry-making retreat has grown into a true creative community—welcoming students
and instructors from across the U.S. and Canada who come together to learn, share, and create in a space
that feels both inspiring and supportive.
And now… we’re opening the door to something new.
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Introducing STUDIO ELEVEN
STUDIO ELEVEN is our newest retreat experience—designed to expand beyond jewelry-making into the
expressive, exploratory world of mixed-media art, while still honoring our roots in metalsmithing and design.
This is where disciplines meet.
Where exploration is encouraged.
Where you can take a jewelry class one day… and dive into paint, paper, wax, print, or stitching the next.
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August 3–8, 2026
Hilton Phoenix Tapatio Cliffs — Phoenix, Arizona
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Is STUDIO ELEVEN for You?
• Love learning new creative techniques
• Want to explore beyond your primary medium
• Enjoy a supportive, welcoming environment
• Are just as excited about connection as you are about creating
What You Might Explore
• Metalsmithing + stone setting
• Wire, and layered jewelry design
• Acrylics, collage, and mark-making
• Printmaking (including gelli printing) + surface design
• Stitching, journaling, and storytelling through materials
• Texture, pattern, and expressive mixed-media techniques
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Meet Your Instructors
Mixed-Media Artists
April Lozevski
Layered, intuitive, and visually rich.
Collage, texture, mark-making, creative flow
Crystal Marie Neubauer
Richly layered and emotionally evocative work.
Textiles, plaster, paint, layered storytelling, surface design
Deedee Catron
Print. Layer. Discover.
Gelli printing, collage, texture, layered composition
Jenny Doh
Expressive acrylic painting, watercolor, blind contour drawing
art journaling, and intuitive creative exploration
Kate Thompson
Romantic, painterly, and beautifully detailed.
Figurative work, soft layering, expressive painting, composition
Kristin Peterson
Dynamic, intuitive, and full of creative energy.
Layering, mark-making, creative exploration
Roxanne Evans Stout
Soulful, organic, and deeply story-driven.
Collage, texture, narrative, found materials
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Jewelry-Making Artists
Ace McCasland (Studio Luna Verde)
Organic, nature-inspired, and soulful.
Textured metals, patinas, natural forms
Anne Mitchell
Precise, elegant, and wearable.
Stone setting, fine silver work, balanced design
Diane Cook
Precision meets creativity.
Stone setting, fabrication, structure
Hoss Rogers
Inventive and highly practical at the bench.
Tool-making, efficiency, fabrication solutions
Robyn Cornelius
Modern, sculptural, and effortlessly cool.
Fabrication, forming, contemporary design
Shannon Bundschuh
Expressive with a bold, creative edge.
Jewelry design with mixed-media influence, layering, color, and artistic expression
Susan Lenart Kazmer
Bold, innovative, and techniques-driven.
Resin, cold connections, mixed-material jewelry
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How It Works
Each instructor teaches three standalone, one-day classes.
Learn from multiple instructors
Explore different techniques
Build a week that’s entirely your own
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More Than Classes
STUDIO ELEVEN Commons — A relaxed, welcoming space to gather, create, and connect.
Onsite Shops — Including SJ Jewelry Supply and curated mixed-media offerings.
Community — For over a decade, our students have returned year after year—not just for the classes,
but for the people.
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Please Join Us on This New Adventure!
We cannot wait to welcome you into this new space.
A space to explore.
To stretch creatively.
To reconnect—with your art and with each other.
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Come for the classes
Stay for the connection
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With excitement,
Barb & Erin
