Four 3-hour sessions   

 $250 materials included
 

Large format acrylic painting without product in mind rather allowing embodiment of creative process to play in & out.

Martin Shaw says, “Good Story tellers create a spell, and great story tellers break a spell.”  It is the same with painters, we create spells and we can use painting to break spells. Large paintings have a somatic component and can actually open up new ways of perceiving.

A spell binds our perceptions and thus our behavior and we can be under that spell for decades. Creating outside the bindings of a spell offers unconsidered possibilities where we can break free of the consensus reality we have created, often via enchantments of movies, books, fashion, politicians or others who have played on our identities and desires. Stretching to the large format within a collaborative environment creates an energy that seeps into other aspects of life, breaking those old spells. Come to the studio to experience this sense of freedom.

Register or ask questions by contacting Majio at anavami@cruzio.com

Printing is an intriguing way to make marks by augmenting lack of control. The ink or painting you put last on the plate is what touches the paper first, covered, or not, by the next layers on the plate. It is almost impossible to calculate how it will come out. It is playful cultivating receptivity to mystery, surprise and the unknowable. It is a method for Wobbling the Paradigm, breaking out of consensus reality, an aspect of marking developed in the Marking Seminar.

Monoprinting using masks to block printing

No art experience is necessary & lots of experience can be loosened up to a new freedom!

Alert- monoprinting is addictive.

monoprint set up with gel plate, acrylic paint & stencils

$75 in Studio including materials & $50 for online participants.

Send questions to Majio: anavami@cruzio.com

 25 approaches to marking-making

With Majio

King with Wandering Blue Eye

The Foundational Markings Seminar was developed in preparation for Wobbling the Paradigm, an endeavor to use visual arts to perceive and explore realities that have been excluded by consensus reality.

This is a self-paced online course including 25 marking approaches plus three online conferences with Majio.

Foundational MARKINGS Seminar covers:

• invisible marks that show up unannounced
• tactile marks from the environment
• 3-D marks
• naïve, authentic marks
• soft marks with various tools
• textural markings
• marks that subtract, honor the void approaches to go beyond controls of habit

Each approach introduces a new way of perceiving and thus responding.

Foundational Markings Seminar

Collaged Asemic Writing & Decorative Paper

This seminar develops an awareness of:

• life force in all things
• collaboration in all aspects of marking
• how identifying with product narrows creativity
• how old habits limit perceptions
• we are not the center of the universe but in constant exchange, in conversation through our bodies and psyche

The intention of these marking experiences is to build a new vocabulary, literally and figuratively. We go on to use the marking vocabulary with our new perceptions in individual ways with various mixed media. They develop all our senses including intuition by wobbling the art paradigm developed by left-brain training, cutting through habitual personal and cultural aesthetics. Through the embodied imaginal field we cultivate a more enhanced and nuanced relationship to world as we become more a part of it.

Register or ask questions by contacting Majio at anavami@cruzio.com

Returning to Oneself

First of a Four-part Series

Weekend Gathering – January 27th to 29th, 2023

With Carolyn Farrell and Majio

In this first gathering, Returning to Oneself… we look to the story of the Selkie, a seal who lost her pelt. She is a metaphorical being forced to live in a world that is not soul-nurturing or creative. She longs for home, a place of autonomy in balance within the natural world. The revitalization of the feminine creatively loosens the constrictions and assumptions of power and expectation in the world-out-of-balance. This painting/marking process offers a deep exploration through creative play of perspectives that change habitual reality. Empowering, reflective, and offering new possibilities this weekend will lead you to a more creative, more joyful, more colorful and connected sense of being with ways to sustain it.

Expressions of the Journey

• Soul-pelt as our relationship to ourselves, nature and each other.
• How do we lose our Pelt?
• Soul-pelt reclamation through personal ritual and creative process.

Pelt is our soul-skin, connecting us to our most elemental self. The value of our essential soul-skin is maintained through conscious awareness. Together we will remember its power through rituals accessible in our daily life as we develop skills through creative process.

January 27th, Friday evening 7 pm to 9 pm, Saturday 28th, 10 am to 4 pm, and Sunday 29th, 10 am to 3 pm after workshop follow-up to share insights and resulting inspirations. Large format mixed media painting, no experience needed.  $350 includes materials. $50 to register through Venmo @Patricia-Majio, PayPal or call us with questions.

Majio – anavami@cruzio.com

Carolyn – carolynfarrellmft@gmail.com