Creative Arts Retreat

Agenda

Wednesday
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Check-in At check-in, you will receive your room assignment and supplies and have time to meet the faculty facilitators for your camp!
3:00pm - 5:00pm	Welcome Session The whole group will meet together to discuss the enduring question with guest faculty: Why do we pursue, study, and make art?
5:30pm - 6:30pm	Dinner
7:00pm - 8:00pm	Evening Activity Take an art and literary tour of campus and receive a free copy of the 2025 Aerie, Concordia University Irvine's literary and arts magazine.

Thursday and Friday
8:00am - 9:00am	Breakfast
9:00am - 11:45am	Morning Workshop - Prose or Landscape Painting
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Independent Work Time
3:00pm - 5:00pm	Afternoon Workshop - Poetry or Art (Sculpture or Illustration)

Saturday
8:00am - 9:00am	Breakfast
9:00am - 11:45am	Morning Session - Artist's Celebration and Open Mic Parents and guardians welcome to attend: Come see what your artist has accomplished this weekend, meet the faculty, enjoy live music and light refreshments.
1:00pm - 1:30pm	Check Out
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Optional - Campus Tours with family

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Previous Student Work

At the heart of the Creative Arts Retreat is the incredible talent of our student artists. From visual art and photography to music, writing, and performance, this showcase highlights work created by student participants during the retreat. Guided by professional mentors and fueled by their own imagination, these young creatives brought bold ideas to life—offering a glimpse into the next generation of artistic voices.

About Us

Zoë Litzenberg

Faculty Facilitator Zoë Litzenberg is the Assistant Director of the Writing Studio and teaches writing courses at Concordia. She loves reading Stephen King novels, talking about movies, and writing in her free time. Every year, she tries to learn a new craft or skill; this year, she’s learning how to oil paint! She believes all academic and creative pursuits provide a new way to make friends and love God better. During summer, Zoë likes to spend time watching birds with her two tuxedo cats, Giacomo and Erasmus, and finding reasons to laugh with her husband Jonah.

Sara Fletcher

Faculty Facilitator Sara Fletcher has been teaching Studio Art (drawing, painting, and printmaking) at Concordia since 2022. She loves to draw and paint from nature and imagination using oil, watercolor, and gouache paints. She also enjoys relief sculpture in clay. In the summers, she explores walking paths with her husband Chris, who is also an artist, and their daughter Beatrice, and they stop to make drawings, have picnics and discuss fairy tales and the Bible.

Madison Zuñiga

Alumni Facilitator Madison Zuñiga graduated from Concordia Irvine in the spring of 2025 with dual degrees in creative writing and studio arts. She has many academic and creative interests, and during her time as an undergrad, she was involved in the on-campus Concordia Writing Studio, the Courier newspaper, and The Aerie arts journal. She especially enjoys clay figure sculpture, textile arts, book arts, poetry, and short story writing. During the summertime, Madison stays busy sewing and reading outside in the sun with her three cats!

Dylan Arant

Alumni Facilitator Dylan Arant studied both Graphic Design and Theology at Concordia. Medieval-style painting and digital animation are his favorite kinds of art. In the summertime, he enjoys reading and going to the gym.

Marie Genesis Malig

Student Graphic Designer Marie Genesis Malig majors in Art with an emphasis in Graphic Design and minors in Business Data Analytics. She loves creating colored pencil drawings and has recently learned and enjoyed oil painting. Her favorite summer activity is to get ice cream with her sister and watch the sunset on the beach.

Explore your creative process in a beautiful location!

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