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Hi - I’m Sharon Cavanaugh. I’m the owner and director of Connecticut Art School. For the past few years I’ve been working on creating a program for adults. I think the kids have all the fun for way too long.

This new work began as part of a personal quest to literally figure out my life. Since 2011 my life has taken quite a few unexpected turns.

I’ve been an artist my whole life. I went to college and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Medical Illustration. My Master of Science degree is in Instructional Technology. I opened Connecticut Art School in 2003 with the intention of empowering children and teens to express themselves in a healthy way and develop a lifelong love of the arts.

In 2011 our daughter Sarah was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma - a tumor in her right cheek. It was totally unexpected and brutal. She was diagnosed days before her 20th birthday and after extensive treatment her body had enough. She left this world in 2016. My 95 year old mom joined her in 2021.

Since then I’ve been searching and trying to make sense out of things that will never make sense. Eventually I landed where I started - with art.

In 2021 I enrolled in a Creatively Fit Coaching program with Whitney Freya (check out her work here - she’s amazing). I knew the only way I was going to be able to continue was to look for answers inside myself. Connecticut Art School started as a Monart School. It was a wonderful way to begin because it connected me with other Monart School owners across the country. Being a Creatively Fit Coach is similar. I now belong to an amazing community. We share and help each other and in turn I have more and more to offer you.

Painting for me has become a meditative practice, a conversation with the canvas. It’s completely the opposite of those detailed medical illustrations I drew years ago. This type of painting is magical and life changing and now I’m ready to share it with you.

Check back for classes and workshops or email me for more information - coming very soon ….