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Did you know that Canvas and Cocktails is one of the very first paint and sip studios in the country? It all started with me wanting to prove to my father that I could make a living with my "Art Degree". I love people, I love painting and I love wine- How could mixing the three not be a successful business? Canvas and Cocktails was formed one night in 2008 over a bottle of wine with my girlfriends. I signed a lease in Cherry Creek North in January 2009 and our doors opened in March. Word spread fast about our entertaining art concept and within the next year we expanded our space and started consulting our business concept to studio owners across the country. A few years later we opened a second location and started partnering with bars and breweries to enhance our experience offsite. Thirteen years later I am still amazed at the fact that I am able to wake up every day absolutely loving what I am doing- and the fact that I proved my dad wrong? Even better!!​ -Brittney
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Meet the Teachers!
​Did you know that Canvas and Cocktails is one of the very first paint and sip studios in the country? It all started with me wanting to prove to my father that I could make a living with my "Art Degree". I love people, I love painting and I love wine- How could mixing the three not be a successful business? Canvas and Cocktails was formed one night in 2008 over a bottle of wine with my girlfriends. I signed a lease in Cherry Creek North in January 2009 and our doors opened in March. Word spread fast about our entertaining art concept and within the next year we expanded our space and started consulting our business concept to studio owners across the country. A few years later we opened a second location and started partnering with bars and breweries to enhance our experience offsite. 10 years later I am still amazed at the fact that I am able to wake up every day absolutely loving what I am doing- and the fact that I proved my dad wrong? Even better!!​
Brittney Wilson
Jasper, Alabama
Rachel Elan
Deerfield, Illinois
What is your most memorable moment in a C & C class?
I was staffing a class where someone was about to propose. Only the instructor and I knew it was about to happen. We played the couple's song "Mess is Mine" and I was recording the whole thing - I think I may have been more excited than the guy!
Emma Brown
Spokane, Washington
What do you like most about teaching at C&C?
Everything! The environment is so positive and upbeat. I love meeting new people, hearing their stories and sharing in their joy. I love that everyone is getting the same set of instructions, but each painting turns out differently- that's the beauty of the world, the uniqueness in each person and the beauty within.
Sarah Rasmussen
Bailey, Colorado
What is your most memorable moment in a C & C class?
I wasn't actually working there yet, and it was my first time in, but my now brother-in-law proposed to my sister there. Everyone was in on it except her, and the staff did a huge toast. It was so much fun! (She said yes, just so you don't wonder)
Tessa Ter Horst
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
What is your most memorable moment in a C & C class?
I love celebrating birthdays at C&C! I had a family come in to celebrate a birthday and they were so excited to see their birthday shout out up at the front. The whole family was so energetic and fun! I always feel so lucky to be a part of someone's big day.
Holly Edwards
Aurora, Colorado
What is your favorite Canvas and Cocktails painting to teach?
My favorite painting to teach is Baby Ostrich or Wacky Alpacky - any of the paintings where the brushstrokes don’t have much rhyme or rhythm to them, it’s so colorful and “go with the flow” feel!
Elyse Heese
Aurora, Colorado
What is your most memorable moment in a C & C class?
I love watching the touching, bonding moments in class. I have had a proposal, multiple generations getting together, healing memorials to those we have lost, and celebrations of triumphant recoveries.