We began Online Open Art Studios in March, in response to the pandemic, and to the need to find a way to come together in creative community. The stress and unrest in the world has magnified, and the need to gather, create, and witness has increased. We offer our online studios as a safe and strong container - a place to create, in response to whatever is on your mind and in your heart.
Such powerful images are arriving in these studios! Sometimes they depict pain, anger, fear, and uncertainty. Sometimes a call for justice. Sometimes they are images of solace or sanctuary. All are welcome. All are witnessed.
We share with you a gallery of images and writings. Please take them in. Notice what arises in you in response. If you would like to participate in the open studios, the links are below. Come with all of your feelings, and take them into your art.
Sending you love, in challenging times, and thank you to these artists for sharing their work.
I am compacted, constricted, compressed. I am confined and oppressed through layers of chaos and denial of me. I explode outward randomly because my rhythm is not able to sustain the pressure. I do not have room to expand fully and naturally. I am the product of my experience and the insurmountable, jaggedy world that surrounds me. Out of me comes
truth and undeniable presence of that which must be heard. I call on you to attend to every single crack and crevice, to notice and care for all of my openings and closings – spaces and faces of me.
I call you to listen to offer self-compassion, to love each of my hot points so that you can heal and expand compassionately beyond this point of rage. Slow down and be present to me. With me. Take care of me. Do not ignore me. Be. With. Me.....Tamara
I feel so happy when I look at you. My eyes love following your shapes around the circle and the colors are soothing.
I am water and form, flow and order. I am balance and asymmetry. I am breath and body. I feel soothed and inspired.
Whale tales, sea shells, bird wings and waves
Flowering forms like starfish and blossoming mountain columbine
Kaleidoscope wave of peace.
Tamara
ONLINE OPEN STUDIOS 3x each week
Tuesdays, 1-4 pm EDT
With Kathleen Horne
Tuesday sessions open with a Loving Witness Meditation
Wednesday Open Studio 10 am to 1 pm EDT
Thursday Pop-up Open Studio 5 pm to 8 pm EDT
(please note: On June 18 and 25 only, it will be 2-5 pm)
With Victoria Domenichello-Anderson
Opens with Art Check-in, and an inspirational reading or poem
For June 18 and 25, use this registration link:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
There is no fee for Open Studios. Love Offerings are gratefully accepted.
LOVING WTINESS ART MEDITATION
(no charge)
You can return to it as often as you like.
ONLINE SELF-STUDY COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
Always available to support your on your expressive arts journey
We thank you, our community, for the wonderful response to the online workshops this past month! Ink and String with Judy Lyon, Soul Collage with Diane Lampitt, Expressive Writing with Anne Hofland, and Spirit Animal with Donna Papenhausen were all great successes. We are so grateful to these great teachers. Stay tuned for
more!
We are launching a series of Professional Development online workshop beginning in August. Markus Scott-Alexander is confirmed for Aug. 19 and Fay Wilkinson for Sept. 19. Registration will open soon and we will be announcing more presenters shortly.
Staying connected through creativity,
Kathleen, Victoria, Tamara
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, K-12 Art, REACE
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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