Sara Steffey McQueen

Author: Sara Steffey McQueen

  • In-Person Workshop in Bloomington, IN

    Intuitive Journaling: Alchemy of the Soul Through Visual Play

     Give yourself a transformative afternoon journey!
    I invite you to a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon for creative play.  I hope you will learn some great techniques of visual journaling that I use and enjoy. You need no prior writing or artistic experiences. Come and follow along. All you need is a notebook or journal, even one you have started and needs a freshen up. I’ll provide all the materials. If by chance you have some pictures or visuals you’d like to include, bring them.

    Day & time~ Saturday, May 16, 2026 1:00 – 3:30

    Pillar Arts Alliance Gallery 2894 E. 3rd St. Bloomington, IN (inside College Mall close to Target)

    $25.00 Register on my SHOP page here, or pay at the event.

  • Sand Mandala for Earth Day April 18, 2026 Switchyard Park in Bloomington, IN

    Come down to Switchyard Park on Saturday, Earth Day 2026 and help design a sand mandala. There will be many other community activities to celebrate Earth Day 2026.

    The completed sand mandala in Bloomington, IN for Lotus World Music festival 2006.

    Here are some photos from a community mandala I helped create back in 2006 for our local world music festival, LOTUS. I loved making and teaching about mandalas around the world, and did a great middle school project each year. I presented the mandalas of Tibetan Buddhists and the sand paintings of the Navajo. Students created a personal mandala. We colored the sand with tempera paint and used glue to make a permanent design on cardboard.

    2026 Sponsors

    This year, I am organizing another community sand mandala for Earth Day. The event is for EARTH DAY at Switchyard Park on S. Rogers St. in Bloomington, IN It is supported by a grant of City of Bloomington Department of Economic and Sustainable Development, Brushes for a Better planet and Artists for Climate Awareness .

    We will be creating it with assistance from a local Girl Scout troop.

    I’ll post the 2026 mandala sketch soon!

    Here are some of my own mandalas.

  • Intuitive Inquiry Oracle Deck

    Direct ordering available for delivery beginning November 2025

    Silk scarf 16″ X 16″ $20.US shipping additional

    57 card deck, Guidebook, and velvet bag $35. plus shipping

    Deck, Guidebook in magnetic closure box $45. US

    email sarasteffeymcqueen@-com

    16″ square silk scarf from painting on back of deck

  • Kickstarter is live!

    By day 5 on KICKSTARTER we have hit 50% of our goal to print my first deck. Intuitive Inquiry Oracle deck is made of 57 of my original paintings and mixed media art that all had amazing stories to share.

    The campaign will go on for the rest of September. I will print up decks, boxes, and the accompanying guidebook (in color) and start shipping in November.

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarasteffeymcqueen/intuitive-inquiry-oracle-deck-0

    Check out the site to choose your pledge. I have made a variety of options.

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  • Kickstarter coming August 28, 2025!

    I will begin sharing a card a day to get you excited about my Intuitive Inquiry Oracle deck.

    The Oracle is created from 57 of my original paintings, drawings, lithos, and pastels from my art. This project is years, really, in the making. My immersion with intuitive painting and the Art of Allowing© for the past decade have brought me incredible insight and joy, The images have a story to tell, so I decided they needed to get out and share for others. I have been sharing locally, and am very pleased with the relevancy and synchronicity of the cards for the readers.

    I will be launching a Kickstarter Campaign late August through the end of September which will have a variety of choices to own your own deck.

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  • Contemplating Curiosity and my Intuitive Inquiry deck

    “As this midwestern heat wave of a summer transpires, I am taking some time away from the heat and indoors, to think about my personal interests. I’ve experienced a lifetime curiosity with methods of divination used throughout time and across cultures. Consulting dreams, medicine people, I Ching, Tarot, and stars and constellations have given direction and assistance as ‘guides’ for people for eons. Around the world humans have always been fascinated to know what their future might hold, or which direction on a new path is best and most beneficial. I spend a lot of my gestation / creative musing with Tarot and Astrology, and somehow it fascinates me. Admittedly, I am grateful I feel safe and have the luxury of even indulging in musing when there is so much strife and suffering in the world.”

    My Stone Mandala Of The Directions

    I have come to believe in prayer, ceremonies, and teaching stories from myths and cultures around the world can help our ailing world. These wisdom teachings guide us, teach through stories and symbols, and identify archetypal stages we a go through in our lives. they can point to new doorways and possibilities.

    Blessing My Deck At Sunset

    These kind of stories began to come forward from my acrylic paintings of these last ten years. The study of Mandalas and my own use of Mandalas for creative insight opened new directions of my art. Responding to the beauty and my love of nature has been the foundation for my subject matter and my intention in watercolors, but I was taken in a whole new direction when I began working with Flora Aube in her process inviting divine feminine and what she termed the “Art of Allowing” © . These paintings showed me stories and eventually i realized the stories wanted to be heard, and offer insight for others. I present my Oracle deck.

    Smudging The Deck In The Four Directions

  • Bold Journey magazine interview

    https://boldjourney.com/meet-sara-mcqueen

    studio view, my space
    My north window view
  • Moon Cycles

    Moon Cycles

  • Mother Lineage

    Mother Lineage

  • “Distant Thunder” Climate Art Exhibition in Bloomington

    “Distant Thunder” Climate Art Exhibition in Bloomington

    Artists for Climate Awareness proudly presents “Distant Thunder,” an impactful juried exhibition showcasing climate-inspired art from talented artists across Indiana and beyond. Join us from April 3 to April 28, 2025, at the Arts Alliance Center, located inside Bloomington’s College Mall, to explore how artistic expression can illuminate urgent climate and environmental issues. Admission to the exhibition is free, and it will be open during regular Mall hours (11:00 AM to 9:00 PM), Wednesday through Monday (closed Tuesdays).

    As part of the Earth Month celebrations, this exhibition encourages community engagement and reflection on environmental responsibility and sustainability through compelling visual narratives.

    Don’t miss the special opening reception on April 6, 2025, featuring “Ceremony for Our Land,” an immersive music and poetry performance led by Grace McKenzie and Daixuan Ai from IU Jacobs School of Music. This unique event emphasizes mindfulness through live music, creating a meaningful space for stillness and reflection. Reception and art viewing begin at 3:00 PM, with performances scheduled at 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM. Refreshments will be provided.

    For more details, visit Artists for Climate Awareness.