Splashingwaters is a retreat space and art lab where intensive artistic development, healing, and personal exploration can happen through artistic and meditative process. Based in beautiful Lancaster, PA and Solacebrook, a 16-acre sanctuary in Litchfield County, CT.
About Sasha Budayev, Teaching Artist
Sasha Budayev was born in 1988 in Minsk, Belarus, and studied painting in Minsk State Art College, Saint-Petersburg Academy of Art, School of Engaged Art Chto Delat and School of a Young Artist ProArte. He holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
He has participated in group and personal shows in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Brighton (UK), Minsk, Berlin, Paris, Tallinn and Philadelphia and NYC. He taught in Minsk State Art College before moving to Philadelphia.
From 2018 through 2021 he taught at the Princeton Academy of Art, NJ. He currently teaches academic drawing and painting in Bridgeview School of Fine Art, New York, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia.
To see Sasha’s paintings in the classical tradition, click here:
To see Sasha’s recent contemporary work, please visit his instagram @sasha_budayv or click here:
About Kristin Witbeck Lee
Kristin is published poet, artist and teacher. She holds a BA in English and Studio Art from Connecticut College, an MFA in writing from Bennington College and a Masters equivalent teaching certificate from The Center for Anthroposophy. She has worked in advertising and founded and taught at an educational nonprofit, through which she also homeschooled her children. She currently studies at the Bridgeview School of Arts in New York City with Sasha Budayev.
Her clients have included Harvard University, Kraft, Pillsbury, AT&T and others. Her poetry has been published in Western Humanities Review at the University of Utah as well as in the Columbia University Journal of Arts and Literature. It has also been featured as part of an exhibit at the Houston Museum of Fine Art.
She has studied healing and intuition, therapeutic listening and Anthroposophy for decades, independently and with teachers from around the world. Her father, Luis R. Lee, is an enrolled full-blood Seneca, and she is a tribal artisan.
Her Haudenosaunee name given to her by her great-grandmother is Ganä:gah:is, She splashes water.
These life experiences and studies are woven into her fine arts work, which she experiences as a sacred act of creativity and healing.
See see Kristin’s work, please visit kristinwitbecklee.com or click here: