Oodles of JOY!
Art Experiences that Inspire Connection
Are you hungry for meaningful connections and delightful experiences?
At Oodles of Joy We eat, sleep, and breathe
- whimsy, delight, cake, nachos, and art supplies.
We specialize in guffawing laughter, infectious giggles, amazement, overwhelming joy, awe, human connection, interesting stories, and creating meaningful shared experiences, while inspiring creativity in all.
Human connection is the source of joy, belonging, and a sense of being truly seen.
We find it everywhere—in stories and shared experiences, through meandering conversations across calls, texts, voice memos, and hours of shared Instagram reels.
Connection is lending tampons in dive-bar bathrooms, sharing eye rolls across crowded rooms, and discussing oddly shaped lemons with strangers in the produce aisle at 2 am.
The need for connection keeps us scrolling social media, answering texts at midnight, and driving across continents for weddings, funerals, and sometimes the birth of a neighbor's cat's kittens.
Planning an event with connection and delight in mind can be as simple as a curated guest list, a well-executed seating chart, and great food.
But here's where the magic happens:
Adding a creative element like Collaborative Art-Making is like adding grease to a fire, steroids to a beefcake convention, or gravy to a water balloon fight.
Things get exciting!
Quickly.
And here's the secret fry sauce:
Creativity is the ultimate connection multiplier because it's something we ALL possess.
When your friends pick up a brush for the first time, or dip their fingers in paint to contribute to a group memory painting, something beautiful happens.
The person who "can't draw a stick figure" discovers they have an appreciation for art and creativity that has gone unexplored. The spreadsheet wizard realizes they're actually amazing at arranging flowers. The quiet one in the corner becomes the life of the party when handed some markers and a glue gun.
At Oddles of Joy!, we don't believe in anything as ridiculous as "talent requirements."
We create experiences where everyone—from your most artistically confident friend to your "I'm not creative" colleague—can participate, be included, and surprise themselves.
Because when people discover their own creativity in a supportive, fun environment, the connections they make aren't just with each other—they're with parts of themselves they forgot existed.
That's not just an event or occasion.
That's transformation disguised as the best time EVER!
