The following text was translated by Rick from the tap tap tapping "voice" of Bijou. Bijou writes: As you all may have heard, Zentangle Project Pack No. 22 was my idea. Perhaps that is obvious. (For those of you who may not know, I am a snail. :-) It all came to me in a dream. It is not surprising that I dream of spirals, but this particular dream was spectacular! I awoke with my mind going this way and that, and around and around in a beautiful spiral. It made me think that my friends at Zentangle would love...

Molly writes... As a child, I loved the story, Alice in Wonderland. It was so curious and offered many oddities. There was the perfect amount of silliness and adventure. I loved that nothing seemed to make any sense in a very normal way of course. I have always been drawn to whimsy and imagination. As a teenager I continued to be drawn to the story and its whimsical art. I became more curious in the symbolism within the story and studied it and enjoyed it in a new way. As a young adult I even traveled to Oxford, England to...

It has been almost five years since the Zentangle Foundation was officially recognized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The journey started in 2015 when a CZT reached out to Rick and Maria with an offer of a donation to support others to attend training to become Certified Zentangle Teachers. As with all projects at Zentangle, with careful and deliberate strokes, one stroke at a time, the foundation was established. Over these years, the foundation has supported programs for professional and personal caregivers, people struggling with substance use, people living with cancer, people experiencing mental health conditions and programs to help...