Transformational Painting Circles
Transformational Painting Circles - 10 am -1 pm - Beginning in January with consecutive Fridays through May
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Four 3-hour sessions $250 materials included |
Special six 3-hour sessions $350 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.
Workshops
Monoprint Workshop Saturday - December 3rd - 9 am to 12 pm
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
Join in on this fun morning of letting go and playing with the unknown.
$75 in Studio including materials.
Re-Wilding Woman
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. Contact us with any questions.
Majio – anavami@cruzio.com
Carolyn – carolynfarrellmft@gmail.com
Wobbling the Paradigm Courses
Introduction to Markings
A self-paced online session providing the foundation for Wobbling the Paradigm
Homo Nota, human beings mark.
We are fundamentally markers. In the physical sense all of the arts are created with marks-from the visual and plastic arts through theater and literature. In the metaphoric sense our conversations mark each other, and we are marked by others. With varying influences we leave traces of who we are in every movement with varying influences. This introductory class gives you a sense of how re-defining marking through various approaches opens up innovative ways of being in relationship in the world.
The Introduction to Marking gives you a chance to play with marks and capture a joy of new discovery as we take you through a couple of interactive marking approaches. This course also provides a preview of the Foundational Markings Seminar, a journey of 25 marking sessions that provide a foundation and vocabulary for the current online and in-person sessions, Marking as Being, at Anavami Studio. This includes instruction in 2 marking approaches. The registration fee for this self-paced on-line course is $50, which will go towards the Foundational Marking Seminar.
Foundational Markings Seminar
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
These approaches allow us to explore our relationship to things, people and systems with playfulness. Stand back a few feet from your paper while using a pen or brush at the end of a long stick, allowing the imprecision to make fresh authentic marks. Feel your own face with one hand and without looking translate with the other hand simultaneously the sensation through marks on to a paper. These approaches offer a new way of perceiving ourselves as well as a glimpse into a different reality and in time it stretches our perceptions in the imaginal realm, influencing our empathy, creativity and innovation.
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.
Introduction to Markings is not required for this course.
For 25 marking approaches self-paced including three live Zoom conferences, the fee is $600
Tours and Retreats
Fall 2023 San Miguel de Allende
Details Coming Soon.