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APRIL 2013 News 200 S. Washington Blvd. Suite 1 Sarasota FL 34236 Towles Court Pavilion (941) 366-9595 www.expressiveartsflorida.com institute@expressiveartsflorida.com Creative Partners and Core Faculty Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator Elizabeth Bornstein, MSSA, LCSW Tamara Teeter Knapp, BA, Certified K-12 Teacher Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator 
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Hello Expressive Arts Friends!
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Participants from 22 countries came together at the
recent IEATA (International Expressive Arts Therapy Association) Conference in Berkeley, California! What a great source of inspiration and creative thinking! Such a wide variety of international expressions of the dynamic and expansive field of Expressive Arts!
If you are not yet an IEATA member, please consider joining now! IEATA is the professional organization that guides and nurtures this field, and establishes professional standards through registration. Please consider supporting IEATA as a member, and perhaps as a volunteer committee or board member. Have a look at the website and the Facebook page..Some high points of the conference were the inspiring and empowering keynote speech by the amazing Natalie Rogers and the honoring of Anin Utigaard as this year's Shining Star! A huge thank you to Conference Co-Chairs Jacob Kaminker, Doreen Maller, and Denise Boston, to all of the IEATA Board members, and an amazing team of conference volunteers! A special thanks to Patricia Rojas-Zambrano for creating and facilitating the conference art room and assisting us in bringing and hanging the IMAGINE Project.
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 Here at Expressive Arts Florida, we are welcoming our new and returning certificate students this month. We will also be announcing our first Level 2 graduates in next month's newsletter!
If you are in the Sarasota area, please join us for the Friday April 19 Towles Court Art Walk, 6-8:30 pm.
Make collaborative art with the students in our "Expressive Arts in the World" course. This will be a fun and creative evening, open to all, with live music by John Wheatley and his smooth saxophone!
For upcoming events please scroll down and learn more about Maureen Freehill's Essential Embodied Arts - Butoh, a day of Touch Drawing, Cynthia Bydlinski and Muff Calderon's Being Your Own Village, Victoria's Painting Your Creative Wild, Kathleen's Art as a Healing Practice online, Expressive Arts Community Networking, community news, and more. A big thank you to Olivia Malloy for facilitating the recent Networking session. Olivia shared a powerful Movement Mapping experience, a multi-modal process to facilitate personal change. What a great evening! Stay tuned!! Watch for two new and very special offerings this fall.....
*a day-long IMAGINE Project Workshop, facilitating personal change and community building through intermodal expressive arts.
*an Expressive Arts Advanced Training weekend.
 The IMAGINE Project has a new Facebook page! Please check it out! It is filled with photos and stories of the contributions so far to this ongoing collaborative art-for-social-change project
Coming soon: *IMAGINE kits to use with your own group!
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There is just one space left in this workshop! Register today!
 TOUCH DRAWING STUDIO WORKSHOP
Monday April 15
Noon - 4:30 pm
$65
Facilitated by: Expressive Arts Florida Faculty
Join us for an inspiring afternoon -
Take time to explore the possibilities of this wonderful process!
Through Touch Drawing, artists of any level, including absolute beginners, can experience inner authentic imagery coming alive on the page.
We will have the studio open and set up for both Touch Drawing
and also for mounting and developing your drawings.
You may dive deeply in to the process, or you may bring finished drawings
to mount and develop.
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Come and explore this simple yet profound process of "Touch Drawing", in which the fingers and hands take the place of pen or brush. Paper is placed over a piece of Plexiglas to which paint has been applied. Wherever the paper is touched, an imprint is made. Impulses from within take form on paper through the movement of the fingertips on the page. This intuitive, meditative process moves us deeply into ourselves, whether it is our first time or an ongoing practice.
If you have done Touch Drawing and would like to learn about how to turn a drawing into a "finished" piece, this workshop is also for you. We will have a room set up to teach the mounting and developing process. Adhere your Touch Drawing to canvas or watercolor paper and develop it with paint, collage, text, and more. Bring a few of your favorite touch drawings with you, and let us assist you in this further exploration. Deborah Koff-Chapin, with whom the instructors have studied, developed "Touch Drawing". See www.touchdrawing.com for more information. . Fee includes TD supplies and materials, including everything for basic mounting and developing EXCEPT canvas or watercolor paper.
Bring you own canvas or watercolor paper, or purchase from us. ($15 per canvas, approximately 16" x 20", $10 per full sheet wc paper.
or email us your intent to register and send a check to Expressive Arts Florida, 200 S. Washington Blvd., Suite 1, Sarasota, FL, 34236 EAFI elective credit available.
Watch a one-minute demo of Touch Drawing with Deborah Koff-Chapin here.
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ESSENTIAL EMBODIED ARTS - BUTOH
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Maureen Freehill, MFA, CYI
Monday April 22
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
The unique art of Butoh originated in Japan. It is based in authentic experience & revelation of the soul's landscape as it arises through body sensation, felt senses and the imagination. Butoh can enhance performance or therapy by developing a "body poetry" in which meaningful metaphors & images are directly accessed and embodied through movement & sometimes voice. As with much of Japanese traditional arts, these basic metaphors arise primarily from nature.
This day will be a nourishing, magical and gentle immersion in our own felt senses & aesthetic responses; especially those that arise when we contact the inspiring presence of natural world. We begin in the studio using evocative music & poetic imagery for the morning butoh lesson; then head out to enjoy the rich natural diversity of Selby Gardens for lunch & our afternoon session. Here we will identify & dialogue with significant plants, animals & elements of nature that can become life-long allies for ongoing creative process and healing. Participants will experience awakened attention, increased capacity for sensation & active imagination. This builds a sense of embodied connection & belonging in the natural world as well as confidence & freedom for full-bodied physical & vocal expression. Participants will leave with new & powerful tools for ongoing artistic practice & session work.
Participants will need to provide own transportation to Selby Gardens & pay additional admission fee if not members.
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Maureen Momo Freehill, MFA, CYI is an internationally recognized & sought after expert in the art of Butoh and a wide range of Embodied Arts practices including Asian Theater, Aerial Yoga, Embodied Voicework, Conscious Dance, Eco-Somatic Therapy & Sacred Geometry of the Body. She is an activist who brings together worlds of east & west; sustainability, science & performing arts. Maureen founded & now directs BUTOPIA: The Pacific NW Retreat Center for Embodied Arts in Nature and SOMA: Sanctuary Of Moving Arts on Whidbey Island in Washington State ( www.butopia.net). She created over 600 site-specific dance performance films, mostly based in nature, that can be viewed on line at www.dailydance.net.
Register online here.
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Expressive Arts Workshop
Cynthia Bydlinski & Muff Calderon
Thursday, May 16
6-9 pm
$40
Most of us have an intense desire to feel like we are being the best person we can be, that we are fulfilling our destiny and that our lives have purpose and meaning. At the heart of this desire is understanding and embracing who we are and what strengths we possess.
Being Your Own Village is a 3-hour expressive arts workshop designed to encourage you to maintain or regain power through your life's journey by celebrating your inner strengths.
You may know the old proverb, It takes a village to raise a child. Being Your Own Village honors the assistance and guidance you receive from others, however, listening to and following your own inner voice of intuition is an acknowledgment of your natural ability to steer the course of your life's direction.
By using multiple modalities of visual art, spontaneous writing, gentle movement and sound we will lead you inward to connect with your own source of wisdom, power and peace. After a guided meditation you will create a 3-d art piece, a headdress, that reflects and honors your personal inner strengths. We will end with a celebration of sharing with gentle movement, sound and music.
Join Cynthia and Muff in a safe space as you begin to lift the layers of your inner landscape to feel, see and listen to what is beneath. All levels of art experience are welcome, including beginners, working artists, and people who think they aren't creative. The atmosphere will be safe and accepting; no critiques or interpretations.
Art materials will be supplied. However, you may bring objects found in nature or in your home to be used in the construction of your headdress.
Register online here
Or send check to Expressive Arts Florida, 200 S. Washington Blvd. Suite 1, Sarasota, FL, 34236
Registration Deadline: Sunday, May 12, 2013
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PAINTING YOUR CREATIVE WILD  WEEKEND STUDIO RETREAT Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator
This weekend's theme:
"SEEING JUST BEYOND the VIEW"
SATURDAY, May 18th 10am to 5pm SUNDAY, May 19th 10am to 2pm. $125.00 plus $25.00 supply fee  Tap into and unearth your playful yet wise creative "inner wild" as a way to engage and balance your full potential for wholeness and happiness. Work from your
Inner core to your
outer edge, journeying inward, then outward, using the
creative edge as a holding point for new awareness.
*how can I use images as a way to identify my inner wild?
*what place does it hold in my current life?
* how do I balance it all in a comfortable and positive way?
Go to the periphery of your creative edge, challenge your comfort zone, and see what comes next. Open up to those things that seem just beyond your reach, and explore them through the art process. Gain new awareness of yourself and your life path. Receive new insights into your inner and outer worlds and explore merging the two.  
Focusing on a specific intention, you will be led through a centering exercise,do some spontaneous writing, and move in to your painting exploration. Victoria will mentor you
along the way, both individually and in the group.
Large canvas and basic acrylic paints and brushes supplied). You are welcome to bring your own acrylics and brushes to supplement ours . Please email your registration intention.  To pay by check: mail to 200 S. Washington Blvd. Suite 1, Sarasota, Fl. 34236 By credit card online here. Payment must be received 7 days prior to start date to confirm attendance. Registration is limited to 8. 941-366-9595. EAFI elective credit available. In addition to the workshop, Victoria is offering individual mentoring to assist in processing your images and outcome via online Skype or in person. Fee: $40.00 per 60 minute session. Inquire by email. back to top
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EXPRESSIVE ARTS COMMUNITY NETWORKING
Wednesday April 24; 6:30-8:30 pm
$10
Networking is a monthly event for practitioners and students of the expressive arts and related fields. Come and share what you are doing, get support, and participate in a facilitated experience by a guest presenter.
Reservations required.
Details will be out soon about this month's guest facilitator!
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ART AS A HEALING PRACTICE
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC,
Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator 
Whether or not you have worked with me before, there is an option for you! During the summer months, I teach online only.
I love facilitating this process as I hold the space for you to dive in to your own creativity and allow its light and healing to permeate your life. This work has changed my life, and I am deeply honored each time some one trusts me as a guide on their unique sacred creative journey.
Art as a Healing Practice is an expressive arts process that embraces the positive power of creative work/play to change lives. Through a series of lessons that each consist of a gentle and powerful blend of guided meditation, visual art, writing and sharing/witnessing,
Art as a Healing Practice 1
The Basic Series
Begins June 1
Each week for 6 weeks, a session will be posted. This includes an audio guided meditation to  lead you into art-making, a written lesson, and some prompts for writing. The online forum is a place to share work, ask questions, give feedback to one another. I will provide input, inspiration and guidance throughout. I will set and uphold some clear guidelines and ground rules for sharing. At the end of the 6 weeks, the forum will stay active, with input from me, until Aug.31, allowing you to complete the series in your own time frame and to begin integrating the work and practice into your life. Session I: Introduction to the Process / Starting the Journey
Session 2: Art and the Emotional Landscape
Session 3: Art and the Physical Self
Session 4: Working with a Polarity in my Life
Session 5: Mandala - Wholeness and Integration
Session 6: Bringing it All Together
Art as a Healing Practice 2
Reclaiming Your Gifts
Begins June 8
This is a brand new series, open
to anyone who has completed the
Basic Series, either online or in-person. Each weekly session includes an audio guided meditation, a written lesson, and some prompts for writing. The forum is a place to share work, ask questions, and give feedback to one another. I will provide input and guidance throughout, and will set and uphold some clear guidelines and ground rules for sharing. At the end of the 6 weeks, the forum will stay active, with input from me, until Sept. 8, allowing you to complete the series in your own time frame and to begin integrating the work and practice into your life.
 Session 1: Where am I Now? Session 2: My Creative Steppingstones
Session 3: Exploring a Steppingstone and Reclaiming its Gifts
Session 4: Exploring another Steppingstone and Reclaiming its Gifts
Session 5: Integrating the Gifts into my Present Life
Session 6: What is Next? (Making choices and moving forward
Online registration will be open soon. If you would prefer to pay by check, please mail to Expressive Arts Florida, 200 S. Washington Blvd. Suite 1, Sarasota, FL, 34236. Questions? Email me. I am happy to discuss and help you decide if this is for you.
CEU's and EAFI elective credit are available.
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EXPRESSIVE ARTS FLORIDA INSTITUTE
Certificate Training Program
APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION ARE ALWAYS WELCOME! New student entry in April, October, January 2013 - 2014 Course schedule
Expressive Arts Florida Institute is a two-level training program for those interested in pursuing the Expressive Arts as a professional path, whether integrating it into an existing career, or beginning a career in the expressive arts field.
An INTERMODAL EXPRESSIVE ARTS TRAINING PROGRAM, Expressive Arts Florida Institute is grounded in a firm belief that an integrated arts approach is a powerful agent of change. Students will participate in visual art-making of various kinds, writing, poetry, music, movement, drama, and guided visualization. An emphasis will be on the power of following the natural creative flow from one arts modality to another.
The learning format is THREE WEEKEND INTENSIVE COURSES per calendar year, generally in January, April, and October in Sarasota, FL. Each weekend is 25 hours of class time. In addition, there is a one-day orientation program for new students.There are also elective credits, which students can often earn in their own community, online communication with an advisor, and a Practicum/Internship at the end of the second year. We offer flexibility for entry of new students; they may start the program with any of the Level 1 weekend intensives. Our goal is to create a FLEXIBLE LEARNING FORMAT for students traveling to Sarasota from out of the area.
Here is a little video that we have created to introduce you to our program......
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GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR ARTS AND HEALTHThe Global Alliance for Arts & Health (formerly Society for the Arts in Healthcare) will hold its 24th annual international conference, Healing Communities through the Arts, April 11-12, 2013, in Washington, DC, USA. It is not too late to register... More information here:This conference will focus on programs and initiatives that expand arts and health beyond healthcare settings and into communities, because, like individual patients, whole communities face stressful circumstances that can benefit from the arts. In the face of war, natural disasters, economic downfall, social marginalization, and public health concerns, arts and health programs, including those adapted from healthcare settings, promote community resilience by providing education, therapy, and an expressive outlet. Stay tuned - New website coming soon! For more information, contact elizabeth@expressiveartsflorida.com and visit http://www.thesah.org
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ARTS FOR HEALTH SARASOTA-MANATEE
(formerly Coalition for Arts and Health)
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Bornstein, LCSW and Hedda Matza-Haughton, LCSW
EXCITING NEWS
The Coalition for Arts and Health and Tampa Bay Arts in Healthcare Collaborative have chosen to join forces! Each organization will maintain its individual identity while working collaboratively to promote the use of the arts to enhance health and well-being in their respective communities and beyond.
As of March 15, 2013, the organizations have changed their names to become: Arts for Health Sarasota-Manatee and Arts for Heath Tampa Bay.
The hope is that this will serve as a model for other Arts for Health groups to form throughout Florida. Arts for Health Sarasota-Manatee will maintain its commitment to offering education and networking opportunities for artists and healthcare providers and looks forward to all of the exciting possibilities of this joint venture.
SAVE THE DATE
Arts for Health Sarasota-Manatee Reception
Tuesday May 14, 2013,
5:30-7:00PM
at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
Come celebrate the accomplishments and new collaboration.
Featured speaker: Sheela Chokshi, MD, Physician Leader of Integrative Medicine Program at Tampa General Hospital highlighting arts and health integration in hospitals.
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION COMING SOON...STAYED TUNED
NEW CONTACT INFORMATION
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ONGOING SERVICES
CUSTOM TRAININGS In Expressive Arts, Arts and Health, Art and Healing Are you looking for specialized training to meet your specific needs? We design customized training programs for individuals or groups interested in developing skill and expertise in these rapidly developing, and sometimes merging, fields. These programs are designed with your specific needs in mind and can include creative and business strategies along with training in whatever modalities or artistic mediums you are interested in. Please contact us with questions or to set up an appointment to discuss your needs. ARTS & HEALTH CONSULTATION SESSIONS Creative consultation for those who desire guidance in finding their way in the merging worlds of Arts and Health. These sessions are open to Artists, Therapists, Facilitators, Administrations, etc... - anyone interested in working or already working professionally in an Arts and Health setting. Sessions can be in person, telephone, email or Skype. One time or ongoing sessions are available. Call or email for available dates and fees. EXPRESSIVE ARTS BUSINESS CONSULTATION We offer consultation sessions to meet your needs. Please contact us to discuss. Student rates are available. back to top |
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APRIL HOURS & AVAILABILITY
Come join us for the Towles Court ArtWalk on Friday April 19, 6:00 to 9:00 pm. Special event: Expressive Arts Florida Insitute students will be facilitating a variety of community collaborative art projects throughout the evening, from 6-8:30 pm. All people of all ages are welcome! Live saxophone music by John Wheatley!
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CONTACT US
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With gratitude for your support
Kathleen, Tamara, Elizabeth, Victoria
Creative Partners and Faculty
Expressive Arts Florida
Expressive Arts Florida Institute
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