In-Person Classes
To learn more about my approach to teaching, please read “My Ten Principles.”
“This was my first class with you, and it exceeded my expectations and brought me exactly what I dared to hope for—allowing me to take my practice of art into a more more essential, integrated, and nurturing place in my life.”
— Cynthia, Speak to Me From Everywhere | Nov 2020
Everything Blossoms From Within
This title, “Everything blossoms from within,” is inspired by the poet Galway Kinnell, with whom I had the privilege of working with in my exhibit “Another Night in the Ruins.” In his poem “Saint Francis and the Sow,” he puts these two words together: self and blessing: self-blessing. Our work blossoms from within, with dedicated time and place. When we reach within, the place and the work reaches back.
In this class we will focus on putting unlikely words together — self-blessing, mind-weeds, shadow-practice — in visual, auditory and poetic ways. We will be using ink, watercolor and graphite and incorporate this work into a handmade book.
Winter Seed’s Promise | Taos, NM
This class is full. To get on the waiting list, click here.
Investigating seeds is fuel for words, for paint and for pencil. Seeds awaken a sense of everything becoming something else, of the “something evermore about to be” (Wordsworth). Seeds are the promise of the new life that arises from what has gone. Seeds come from the natural world, from dreams and from ideas. A sown seed is the beginning of creativity.
In the classroom, seeds cross-pollinate.
Martin Ray “Young at Heart” Memorial Scholarship
New scholarship in honor of a treasured student