Join us as CreativeMornings PKX returns in person! It’s the only creative breakfast lecture series that you’ll need on a Friday morning!
This Month’s Speaker: Monica Dorley: Creating in Layers
Monica Dorley is a Portsmouth, New Hampshire–based designer and creative visionary. Since launching her career in 1997, she spent over a decade refining her craft before founding Fast Girl Productions in 2006 to pursue bold, expressive work. During the COVID lockdown in 2020, Monica ventured into spray-painting, transforming reclaimed wood and glass into vibrant, space-inspired collages. Her designs marry environmental sensibility with cosmic wonder, elevating everyday materials into imaginative narratives.
In this CreativeMornings talk, Monica reframes “blossoming” not as flowers in spring, but as cosmic creation. For Monica, blossoming looks like the Big Bang—layers, chaos, and unexpected beauty. As a graphic designer turned spray paint artist, Monica has learned that growth doesn’t happen in a single moment; it builds like galaxies forming from dust. Spray paint taught her to embrace chaos: wind, drips, and accidents often create better outcomes than what she planned. That openness reshaped her design work and showed her how contradictions—structured grids and wild bursts—can feed each other.
Monica will share that blossoming isn’t about perfection; it’s about allowing yourself to be reshaped, to grow in multiple directions, and to honor the dormant seasons when nothing seems to shine.
Doors open at 8:30. Coffee served 8:30-9am. Talk begins at 9am and event ends at 10am.
About CreativeMornings PKX
CreativeMornings PKX (Portsmouth, Kittery, & Beyond) is a local chapter of the global breakfast lecture series for the creative community founded by Tina Roth Eisenberg (@swissmiss). We meet once a month on a Friday morning from 8:30 – 10am. Every meeting will feature a local speaker on the month’s topic and is free and open to the public.
