The official rescheduled date for this event is Tuesday, October 18. We hope you can make it!

Artist and founder of The Painting School Sara Woster invites readers into the vibrant world of painting as a creative practice powerful enough to transform our lives.

Sara Woster is a painter, teacher, and art evangelist. She believes in art as a form of mindfulness, a ritual for healing, and an outlet for self-expression. In Painting Can Save Your Life, Woster welcomes readers into this transformative art form, inviting them to pick up a brush and discover how painting can help you see the world in a whole new way.

Weaving soup-to-nuts instruction on how to paint—from choosing the right materials to painting the human body—with her own story of discovering a passion for painting, this book includes:

• simple and easy techniques for painters of all skill levels
• playful and challenging painting exercises
• tips on how to build a creative community using art
• insights on how to use painting to cultivate a sense of calm in a stressful world

Part how-to-paint, part sheer inspiration, Painting Can Save Your Life is a wise and inspiring guide to the power of painting.

Painter and art teacher Sara Woster founded The Painting School in Brooklyn, NY in an effort to share her passion for painting with her community. Woster shows her work internationally and has illustrated several children’s books. A graduate of the creative writing program at The New School University, Painting Can Save Your Life from Penguin Random House / TarcherPerigee is Woster's debut book. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, the Catskills and Northern Minnesota.

Amy Thielen is a two-time James Beard Award-winning writer, speaker, teacher, and cookbook author. She’s the author of The New Midwestern Table, the memoir Give a Girl a Knife, and was the host of Heartland Table on Food Network. Her newest cookbook, Company: The Radical Art of Cooking for Others–a big, glossy book of menus, recipes, and advice from a pro-turned-home cook with an incurable dinner party habit--will come out in November of 2022 from W.W. Norton. A former contributing editor at Saveur, she writes and speaks regularly about home cooking and food culture for print magazines, radio and podcasts, television shows, organizations, and nonprofits, and spends her spare time in her vegetable and flower gardens, in the car talking on the phone, shuffling between the sink and the stove, and of course on the internet. She lives in rural northern Minnesota with her family.

A note about in person events:

We are very excited to bring authors and readers back together in our space, and we know you are too!

As we all navigate the transition back to congregating in person, we ask that you use honesty, care, and understanding in interacting with fellow event-goers, staff, and authors.

Please note that Magers & Quinn will always comply with current city and state regulations, and reserves the right to change the below policies at any time. These are guidelines only, and if you have questions about the most up to date information, you can always call us at 612-822-4611.

For information about how our in-person events will work over the coming months, please read on:

Q: Are masks required?

A: Please wear a mask while in the event area and in the signing line.

For the health and safety of others, we strongly encourage you to wear a mask or face covering.

Q: Are in store events free?

A: Yes, Magers & Quinn events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Q: Do I need to RSVP?

A: Yes, please. Each event will now include a registration link.

As we navigate this step back to in-person events, we will be limiting event capacity to ensure a safe and comfortable experience for all attendees and authors. By requiring pre-registration, we can easily communicate event updates and policies with those who plan to attend, and can contact attendees after the event with follow-up information.

We strongly suggest registering via the Eventbrite link provided on our website, but if you are unable to sign up online, please call or visit the bookstore and register with a bookseller.

We may or may not be able to accommodate unregistered walk-ins, and seating priority will always be given to registered customers. We appreciate your understanding of this process!