In the early months of the year, under the Oaxacan sun, master ceramicist and VAWAA artist Macrin...
November 22, 2024
In recent years, knitting tourism has gained traction, as noted by The New York Times in their ar...
October 18, 2024
In Guanajuato, Mexico, people walk on water—topographically, that is. Formerly known as Cuanaxhua...
August 02, 2024
Textiles may be the most immaterial materials on earth. They hold our memories, our desires, our ...
July 26, 2024
A white mass of fungi root sprawls below the human world. Called mycelium, it grows in thriving, ...
June 15, 2024
Embarking on a journey of mindful travel often begins with the realization that our adventures ex...
May 21, 2024
A brief (and fascinating) history lesson: in the 1990s, NASA’s interest in divergent thinking and...
April 22, 2024
Creativity knows no borders. Whether exhibited in prestigious galleries or adorning urban landsca...
April 15, 2024
Our ancestors are cardinal guides—vital mentors in uncovering the lessons of life. In the lands t...
April 08, 2024
These days, it seems the world can’t get enough of fiber arts. And thank goodness! I can’t help b...
April 01, 2024
When we talk about American cuisine, images of hamburgers, apple pies, or mac and cheese might co...
March 25, 2024
With their sometimes imaginative, sometimes functional works of art on display in galleries and m...
March 18, 2024
In the ongoing search for master craft masters who are willing to open their studios and share th...
March 11, 2024
As someone who’s endured the harsh beauty standards of the early 2000s (and all the insecurities ...
February 26, 2024
Winter's long, dark days invite an ice-frosted gloom for many of us. Living in New York City, my ...
February 23, 2024
What creative pursuit brings you joy? From dancing to painting, creativity can manifest itself in...
February 19, 2024
I’m noticing a lot of reels highlighting lesser-known travel destinations. Clips of almost-empty-...
February 12, 2024
Like many professional artists, Marjolein’s path has been a squiggly one. She initially worked as...
February 09, 2024
At last, the big question. One that looms large in this glorious, complicated, ever-shifting thin...
February 05, 2024
In an age defined by instant gratification, the realities of a memory erased or the end of a jour...
January 29, 2024
Passport? Check. Portable charger? Check. Water Bottle? Check. This list goes on. Preparing for a...
January 22, 2024
Something about the kitchen can always call to the depths of the soul. It invites you in for an o...
January 05, 2024
Is it just me, or has this year felt like a bit of a shock awakening? After the slowness of lockd...
January 01, 2024
As a child of the South, kudzu overgrowths gracefully lended themselves to my wandering imaginati...
October 27, 2023
Art has revolutionized the lives of women, providing them with a means to express themselves. Thr...
June 16, 2023
For this year’s Teacher Appreciation Week, we want to take a moment to honor and recognize the in...
May 05, 2023
Purpose and living a meaningful life are recurring themes at VAWAA. As a community of creative tr...
April 13, 2023
Carmen and I walked along the ambiguous edge of Lake Umecuaro. The depth of the water fluctuates ...
March 27, 2023
Hi All! My name is Olivier, Olly; born and raised in Amsterdam, and I would like to share my stor...
January 27, 2023
Refer friends and earn VAWAA creditsKnow someone that would love to go on a VAWAA? Were you refer...
January 10, 2023
I have always been passionate about art and travel, so when I came across VAWAA, I was immediatel...
January 04, 2023
This is the story of a journey. My journey. Everything started in 2016. I was an art director wor...
December 15, 2022
I'm not usually entertained by food network tv - never having had much interest in cooking myself...
November 07, 2022
Art was always an important part of my life. I was the child that asked for a paint set for Chris...
September 20, 2022
Who are the best artists and makers you know?At VAWAA, we love hunting for the best artists aroun...
August 31, 2022
In all of art’s storied and complex history, one constant is that humans will create. Creation is...
August 15, 2022
With over 100 artists in 27 countries, with crafts ranging from Sgraffito pottery in India to Con...
July 04, 2022
I always enjoy traveling alone and meeting new people, learning about different cultures, and acq...
June 20, 2022
Soggy snowflakes pattered my windshield as I let out the clutch on a Montana backroad. I was on m...
June 10, 2022
When you’re a part of the VAWAA team, you’re coming across different artforms, crafts and creativ...
May 25, 2022
I have a confession to make, I am a self described Travel Whore. Yes, you read that right. I am a...
May 19, 2022
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”--Mahatma GandhiIn 19...
April 09, 2022
The world is opening up again, and that itch to roam and wander is strong! What better way to ful...
January 25, 2022
Throw away your rotary cutter, your quilting ruler, and your cutting mat. And, probably any rule...
November 08, 2021
The VAWAA family is ever expanding, our team is always looking out for inspiring new craftspeople...
October 20, 2021
‘Collage allows the opening of the unconscious, which is very direct…. it’s also a way of looking...
September 28, 2021
Michael Hazani, a software engineer and virtual reality designer had a dream. He wanted to work w...
August 02, 2021
Wrinkles and fine lines, grey hairs, varicose veins, slow footsteps, shaky movements… In our imag...
June 30, 2021
The history of Mexico has seen the rise and fall of great civilizations, and thousands of years o...
June 29, 2021
Unsurprisingly, you will find that many areas around New York City are peppered with creative mic...
New England has historically been home to several art colonies. This treasured region was where s...
June 28, 2021
How would you like to end your vacation with a hand built boat to take home - built entirely by y...
Once, when avant garde tattoo artist Taiom lived in Bologna, he was approached by a history stude...
June 24, 2021
A few years ago I got the chance to visit the home and studio of a talented artist in the city I ...
June 22, 2021
An interesting trend emerged over the past year: nearly everyone I know has become a practicing h...
June 04, 2021
The excitement of embarking on new adventures is here! Countries across the world begin to reopen...
May 24, 2021
Armed with a blade and an equally sharp wit, Manhattan-based artist Beatrice Coron tells vivid vi...
February 13, 2021
Our contemporary world is complex. With technology allowing for consistent communication, as well...
February 02, 2021
Art is a reflection of the world around us. When the world shifts and we lose our collective way,...
January 05, 2021
It’s incredible what you can create with just a compass, ruler, and colored pencils. Over five we...
July 15, 2020
It has been about two months since the majority of the world has been under lockdown. Five weeks ...
May 14, 2020
Our first VAWAA Live last Saturday was a reunion of strangers. Meeting your creative brothers and...
April 07, 2020
There is a creative spirit in all of us. But it gets very quiet and lazy if all we do is work at ...
March 04, 2020
In the face of a world that is faster and crazier than ever, we are coming to understand that our...
December 30, 2019
The Japanese Tea ceremony, or sadō (“way of tea”) as we know it today, emerged during the 16th ce...
December 22, 2019
The extremely popular meme, Fear of Missing Out, which was born in 2000 as a result of a marketin...
December 13, 2019
“I’ve been creative all my life as a young child but I’ve never really recognized it because to m...
November 14, 2019
In 2014, an essay called “Waiting for Merlot” was published in the journal Psychological Science ...
November 08, 2019
Ikebana or “the art of arranging flowers” is an ancient floral art form that dates back to the 7t...
October 29, 2019
An incredible experience to say the least! You know those rare moments in your life where realit...
October 14, 2019
Tattooing has been practiced as far back as thousands of years, with discoveries of tattooed skin...
October 11, 2019
When the Pratt Institute started offering a graduate art therapy degree in 1970, it became one of...
October 10, 2019
Ines, who teaches the art of creating mandalas to VAWAA guests, has loved to play with nature sin...
October 04, 2019
At VAWAA, we believe in connecting with art as an opportunity to explore, learn, and create. Maki...
September 23, 2019
We’ve probably heard this since our childhood: what are your goals? What milestones have you cros...
September 13, 2019
The romantic city of Paris has yet another dimension, as the home of Design Week that is currentl...
September 12, 2019
The art of printmaking which originated in China around 105 A.D. used stone rubbing as the earlie...
September 09, 2019
Denim, a fabric that is as everyday to most of us as eating or sleeping, has marked culture and f...
August 30, 2019
The Travel DilemmaThe more we travel, the more we’re inspired to care for the planet. Yet the mor...
August 28, 2019
In the magical book, Le Petit Prince or The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tells the sto...
August 15, 2019
It’s about connecting with clay in a totally therapeutic wayToday, the art of ceramics has seen a...
August 06, 2019
Honestly, I could substitute that word “artist” with any number of pursuits that carry a one-word...
July 29, 2019
What if you could extend your travel experience with a stay at a hotel that really gets the minds...
July 25, 2019
“Why does someone from Singapore need to learn Spanish?”, the immigration officer at Amsterdam’s ...
July 20, 2019
Recently, Team VAWAA lived and worked from Mexico City for a month. Geetika and I were lucky enou...
July 15, 2019
Lisa Sheirer is an artist, a designer, and educator living in Frederick, Maryland, United States....
July 10, 2019
One warm July morning in 2015, a high school student arrived in a tuktuk to my guesthouse in Luan...
July 08, 2019
“To travel, above all, is to change one’s skin.” – Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThese words by Antoine...
July 05, 2019
"I never travel alone as I always have my camera with me."When I left Marrakech last week, the se...
June 25, 2019
Before My VAWAA, Outward-LookingThe world beckoned and every tale of travel made me want to go ex...
June 22, 2019
Book a Vacation to Learn a SkillVacations are too often used as a way to “escape” our day-to-day ...
June 20, 2019
“When you stop growing you start dying.” - Lou HaltzHarsh but true. “Travel the world.” “Write a ...
June 18, 2019
When’s the last time you did something for you? For the sake of your own personal growth. And let...
May 30, 2019
If our founder Geetika could, she would do a VAWAA every month. That's why she started this compa...
May 10, 2019
Creativity used to be a word I would use to describe extracurricular activities. Something to do ...
February 16, 2019
After 12 years in Silicon Valley, I had finally burnt out. It wasn’t anything dramatic or even th...
February 04, 2019
Ability to travel is my most prized possession – ability to travel solo is my most humbling conne...
February 03, 2019
The journey of discovery is a beautiful gift and there are ways that we can intentionally lean in...
January 29, 2019
It was a warm October evening on the rooftop terrace of a Fes riad in the old medina. Stars spark...
January 13, 2019
I travel to India a lot, at least twice a year, and always try to include as much local art as po...
January 08, 2019
Our small VAWAA team is made up of solo travelers. From Indonesia to Lithuania to Gran Canaria, w...
January 02, 2019
I cannot think of creativity without thinking of community. And whenever I think about what livin...
December 20, 2018
I drew a sketch on a sheet of paper. A girl with long wild blue hair, running shoes in sight, dre...
December 09, 2018
Our toughest moments in life often arise from a series of unanticipated situations or deep trauma...
December 01, 2018
Having studied painting in school, Jannelle is no stranger to the artistic studio. But it had bee...
November 25, 2018
When I decided to visit Tanzania this year, the first thing I did was look up the VAWAA website t...
November 16, 2018
Karolien is a Belgian restaurateur who has long been bitten by the travel bug, criss-crossing the...
November 04, 2018
A high school student with big dreams to become an artist and open her own studio, Ananya was loo...
September 23, 2018
I decided to do a VAWAA because I like to travel, and I like to feel at home while traveling.Ther...
September 19, 2018
I really needed to be inspired again by a hobby I started years ago, but wanted to take it to a m...
September 15, 2018
We are both very busy. We also both love art and travel, and we are both creatives at heart.We he...
August 17, 2018
Street art was on Dutch painter Marleen’s bucket list for years, but she kept finding a reason to...
August 01, 2018
Art runs in Gabriella’s blood. Between studying art at university, practicing art forms such as p...
July 27, 2018
Formerly a businesswoman and now a life coach, Sajili has spent the last several years living wit...
July 25, 2018
In the age of massive - and often unexpected - layoffs, how often do we wish we had practical ski...
June 28, 2018
Melissa Hamlyn recently embarked on her first VAWAA: a clay and pottery getaway with Thomas at h...
May 23, 2018
May 21, 2018
Let’s Begin With Why You Should Take a Creative Vacation The act of creating is a healing practic...
May 07, 2018
You’re ready to travel the world and experience new adventures...but you’re not quite sure where ...
April 19, 2018
An avid traveler, Sarika usually takes a trip every three or four months, and she’s even written ...
April 18, 2018
I’ve always pursued opportunities to learn. In fact, my passion for learning is one of the things...
March 15, 2018
Thomas as a Teacher, Host and FriendDuring my 2 week India trip, I have spent 4 days at Thomas' s...
February 05, 2018
Over the past 25 years, watercolor artist Katie Graham, has taken her passion for art with her on...
November 04, 2017
My name is Aisling, and I’m a millennial. When I was asked to write a piece about how millennials...
September 10, 2017
Mornings spent in the silence of Tam Dao. Afternoons writing the next great novel. Evenings loung...
September 05, 2017
With the windows to Nazlina's workshop wide open, we can't escape the background noise: the vroom...
July 13, 2017
A recent VAWAA experience introduced two Buenos Aires citizens from different professional worlds...
July 12, 2017
We live in such a distracted world; a world of spectating, observing, and endless critiquing. Eve...
May 29, 2017
“World music with teeth.”This is how musicians Alberto Botero and VAWAA artist Francisco describe...
May 04, 2017
At the risk of contradicting our own headline, we’re going to start this off with a simple truth:...
April 06, 2017
Atop the shop’s entrance, the Chinese characters of Seang Hin Leong are written in bold red. Rat...
April 02, 2017
“Made in Bangladesh” our clothes say. Have you ever wondered about the hands behind these clothes...
March 08, 2017
Most of us are familiar with the sensation of looking at a particular painting or a sculpture and...
March 07, 2017
A trip abroad elicits mental visions of white stretches of sand and perfectly Instagrammed Cappuc...
February 08, 2017
The VAWAA artist gives insight into her creative processPorteño muralist Pum Pum prefers to navig...
Vivi is my tango mama, and she is legendary.I met Vivi on a hot midsummer day in Buenos Aires. It...
After the eye-opening, stunning, and far too frequently tragic events of 2016 — or the-year-that-...
January 16, 2017
While other children had sandwiches or meat pies for lunch, Ethan’s grandma packed him elaborate ...
January 15, 2017
On the Slovenian coast lies the old salt fields of Piran, a portion of which is preserved as a sa...
December 12, 2016
South Korea’s capital, Seoul, was appointed as a UNESCO City of Design in 2010. Seoul became part...
December 06, 2016
What on Earth beats the relaxing feeling of lying on the beach, soaking in the sun?As it turns ou...
November 10, 2016
We asked Jan to described Ondrej, his partner in art. Jan proceeded to tell us that Ondrej is the...
November 08, 2016
Last Christmas, Katja Kramberger wanted to break the usual holiday routine. Instead of eating coo...
November 07, 2016
The unifying factor that strings Viviana’s extraordinary lifestyle together is her passion for Ta...
October 05, 2016
With every country that Cecilia travels to, she strives to create a “routine”. A combination of g...
Raise your hand if you’re eyeing the calendar, counting the days until sayonara to 2016.It’s been...
Michelle stumbled upon VAWAA by pure luck… “I’m part of a Facebook group called Girls Love Travel...
September 06, 2016
“You know, there’s a difference between Malaysian shadow puppets and the ones in Thailand and Ind...
September 02, 2016
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