Remember Who You Are
The Oakseed:
A Creative Weekend Retreat
Imagine sinking into creativity beside a lake as summer begins its gentle turn toward fall.
The deck is open, the water is close, and for once there is nowhere to be and nothing to manage. Just color, movement, and the quiet voice inside you that has been waiting to be heard.
You don't need to become someone else to feel whole again. Everything you need, your strength, your clarity, your knowing, is already within you.
Creativity is simply the practice that brings it to the surface.
The Oakseed is a transformational weekend retreat where art becomes your meditation, your mirror, and your medicine. Through intuitive painting, you’ll channel emotion onto canvas, then work with powerful feminine archetypes using color, movement, and sacred symbols, you'll create a personal talisman of courage and possibility. Together, we weave creativity, reflection, and sisterhood into an experience that leaves you inspired, grounded, and fully reminded:
Your creativity is your superpower.
No art experience needed, just curiosity and openness.
The practice is the portal, not the finished piece.
The Setting:
We’ll be gathering at the Hangout 1111 — a beautiful lakefront property in Granite Falls, NC. In January we held the first retreat here with all the windows closed against the cold. This September, we get the full experience: painting on the open deck, morning reflections by the water, meals shared in the warm early-fall air.
The lake, the deck, the turning of the season — it’s all part of the medicine.
Back By Popular Demand
In January 2026, a small group of women gathered here for the very first Oakseed Retreat. They arrived carrying stress, uncertainty, and the weight of daily life. They left with renewed clarity, deep connection, a creative practice, and a personal talisman painting they’d created themselves.
This September, we return — with the same love, the same sacred space, and everything we learned from that first gathering. Plus the lake. Plus the deck. Plus the magic of early fall.
What Women Are Saying
"What a wonderful weekend, filled with connection, and gently guided artistic expression. Do it."
~Alison
"I was slightly uncomfortable going into the retreat, particularly about my lack of painting skills. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to create something on the spot that was worthwhile. However, Kim did a beautiful job allowing me to be where I was and was skilled at dissipating the pressure I was putting on myself. The rest of the group was open and receptive and that also allowed for the environment to feel free and creative. It turns out that I absolutely love what I’ve painted and the process through which she came alive. To this day My painting is hanging in my kitchen, so I can enjoy her and reminisce about the experience of expressing my inner self. I was surprised at the creative process that Kim orchestrated. It felt truly magical.
Thank you for the experience, Kim!"
~Elizabeth
The Transformation
🧘♀️Connect to your creativity and release fear, sadness, uncertainty, and frustration through color, motion, and intuitive expression
🎨Tap into a creative flow state that opens the subconscious: where clarity, ideas, and peace naturally surface
✨Receive intuitive insights and emotional truths that reveal themselves through the painting process
🔥Work with powerful feminine archetypes to access strength, wisdom, and inner guidance
👩🎨Create a talisman painting that continues to support, inspire, and empower you long after the retreat
🖌️Learn a simple, repeatable practice for accessing your creativity anytime you need grounding or direction
♥️Leave transformed:
renewed, centered, and reminded that all lasting change—personal or collective—begins within
This is more than art.
It is meditation, liberation, self-discovery, and remembering who you are.
“The Oakseed: A Weekend of Renewal, Connection, and Creative Awakening”
Dates: September 18-20, 2026
Friday 3PM – Sunday 2PM
Location: "The Hangout 1111"
Granite Falls, NC
2 nights lodging (Friday & Saturday) in the beautiful "Hangout 1111"
Delicious artisan prepared vegan meals and snacks from Friday dinner through Sunday brunch
Morning meditation sessions
Self-discovery painting workshop including all supplies
Soulful connection circles and creative reflection time
This is more than art.
It is meditation, liberation, self-discovery, and remembering who you are.
Who I Am
I'm Kimberly Bost—an artist, activist, and mother rooted in Hickory, North Carolina. My creative journey began in design and fashion, where I worked with nationally recognized brands before turning my focus toward art with a deeper purpose. Over time, my work expanded beyond the canvas and into the community: I've run for the North Carolina General Assembly three times, managed our commumnity farmers market, and today I serve as Executive Director of OUTright Youth of Catawba Valley, supporting LGBTQ+ youth in rural communities.
Across all these roles, artist, advocate, leader—one truth guides me:
Art isn't just expression.
It's a transformation.
It can change us, and through us, change the world.
Why You Need This Experience
If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or powerless in the face of current events (or just at this stage of your life), this retreat will offer you a refreshing reset. You’ll rediscover your inner strength, learn to use creativity as meditation, and walk away with more than a painting: you'll leave with a living reminder that everything you need has been within you all along.
✨ Whether we long to transform ourselves or our world, it begins inside of us.
Remember
WHO YOU ARE.
Questions? send me an email!
kim@remembr.studio