Sara Steffey McQueen

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  • 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.

    Please share and check out my other videos on youtube and facebook, and Instagram

  • Bold Journey magazine interview

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

    studio view, my space
    My north window view

  • Exhibit of “Intuitive Inspirations”

    I have 35 or so acrylics hanging locally in the Vault Gallery & Mortgage on W. 6th St. in Bloomington.

    The show will hang through September.

    These pieces have been chosen for my upcoming ORACLE DECK, INTUITIVE INQUIRIES.

  • Growing

    white glads
    Striking stem of white gladiolas

    Summer 2022 is almost here. I’ve just returned from a family vacation to St. Augustine, Florida. Enjoyed sunrises, waves and tourism. In my personal world, I return home and re-connect to garden and yard. This year, I started vegetables and flowers from seed, and now am ready for planting the seeds in the garden.

    My studio is ready for me, but I am not engaged right now in painting.

    A fallow, waiting, unknown.

    Soft pastel used to elicit the spring freshness
    Iris and delicate wild lilacs in an antique vase

    Trusting what is.

  • Winter Solstice 2024 time in my studio

    Preparing space and painting activities

    The leaves have mostly dropped and the ground is getting quiet.

  • Tree Sisters

    Supporting my Art supports the Earth through with global forest plantings Everything I do in my life is a reflection of my passion for Nature. Tree Sisters has planted over 19 MILLION trees in Rainforest areas worldwide. www.treesisters.org

  • The Matter of Spirit

    “She holds A Vision”

    Celebrating today~~ the Blessed annual return of spring here in the northern hemisphere. It is still a bit early to go straight into gardening, but the early harbingers are showing. and~ happy Women’s History day! … or MONTH, as I like to call it.

    The piece above began as a little daydream during a Sufi Meditation retreat a few years ago in Wisconsin on Lake Michigan. this was an annual retreat I attended for many years at a Sienna Center, a Dominican run home for the elder nuns.

    When I returned home with her, she sat for quite awhile, until I was inspired to collage her into an invocation for Peace and Awakening.

    We are still living in a covid-19 restricted world, and although vaccines are moving through our community, I am still isolated from Galleries, Exhibitions and more exposure and gathering in Circles.

    We all meet on ZOOM, we still nourish our Spirits, but the restrictions for touch and close connections is beginning to wear on me.

    I have decided to wait another year to present the long awaited “Wild as you want” Women’s weekend Nature Immersion. I am being patient and letting it percolate.

    I send you all love, and joy, and welcome your connection here on this site.