 Three Moons Resting monoprint 10 X 13
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"Ally" collage 5 X 8
 Season's Greetings
My life, teaching and making art, has been full and my regular life has been very busy with important things yet I feel discontent, like I am avoiding something. I am being urged and pushed by my discontent to take bigger chances, to go further and deeper. Maybe it is the planet or Gaia that I hear calling. In a recent dream a tiger is pacing around my safe and comfortable dwelling. He knocks at my door, saying "Come out, can't you see the time is now?"
I will be taking January off from teaching so that I can put my creative energy into what is next. I feel all stirred up inside to get back to my own work without deadlines or shows. This includes taking another look at the book I began three years ago.
My Four day workshop "Dialoguing With Your Creative Self" will be on hold for a while. My thinking
right now is that I will teach it four times a year. I want to design a new class that addresses the "how to" of accessing source wisdom through art process. This will not be a class for people who primarily want to learn techniques in book making, carving, printmaking, collage and color theory, even though you will learn these techniques in my class. It will be a class for people who are ready to let go of preconceived ideas about art-making. It is for people who are willing to stretch toward something deeper, authentic, exciting, as well as mind and heart expanding. We have been doing some of this work in the "dialoguing" class but I want to take it to another level. I love exploring the creative process. I love discussing the miracle and mystery of making art. I have some ideas that I am ready share and I'm ready to take the risk of leaving my comfort zone.
For me it is not about being better artists, it is about using the creative art processes to access what we are already wired with as human beings. Most of us have forgotten that we have had the ability all along. Some of us were told it was not important. The truth is, art making revives the heart and rehabilitates the soul allowing joy, clarity, and well-being into our lives.
I will let you know about my new class as it develops and I'll send out the "dialoguing" workshop schedule when I have it figured out.
Blessings of health and contentment to you.
Denise
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