WORKSHOPS
Finding Your Voice: Using The Creative Process For Healing and Hope
So many of us are finding that each day can be a bit of a struggle to find a “balance.” Feeling anxious, stressed and even fearful can make daily routines seem more challenging.
Twisted Fish Art Gallery is offering a series of workshops to explore how art making can become a powerful tool to use to support yourself during difficult times. Led by seasoned art therapist, Barbara Greenwood, each workshop will introduce a new art experience designed to help reduce stress, strengthen coping skills and build mindfulness. Each workshop will give participants the opportunity to give voice to their own needs while creating and building community.
Come to this wonderful space, to slow down for a few hours, center yourself and create. Find out how “magical“ the process of creating art can be to both mind and spirit. Besides...it can be just a lot of fun!
No skills are needed.
Create a Tibetan Message or Prayer Flag
Tibetans are known for creating brightly colored rectangular message or prayer flags. These prayer flags contain symbols, pictures, words, mantras and prayers that reflect wishes for peace, strength, compassion and wisdom for all being. It is believed that when hung outside the wind passes over the surface of each flag sending these messages into the world.
What hopes, dreams and wishes do you have for yourself and man kind? Come create a flag to carry the message of your prayers of goodwill and compassion.
All materials will be supplied.
Creating Soul Cards: Exploring Personal Mythology through the use of Collage
In 1980, Seena Frost penned the term ‘Soul Collage.’ These small cards, filled with magazine images and words become a small “snapshot” that reflects back the artist’s own personal mythology. The card becomes the stepping stone to explore your inner self and to nourish your soul.
Supplied: 5x7 cards Magazines
Bring:
Stick Glue
Your favorite pair of scissors
Kintsuigi: Mending A Broken Heart
Kintsuigi is an old Japanese art. The artist uses gold to repair cracks in broken pottery. Instead of trying to hide the cracks in the pottery it accentuates the mended cracks, revealing their strength, beauty and uniqueness. The Japanese believe that, within the cracks and broken places, lie true strength, uniqueness and beauty.
Using fabric pieces, felt, ribbons and other materials, participants work to mend a heart of their own. Thus revealing their own strengths.
Supplied: Embroidery Floss Fabric
Needles
Thread
Puff paint Stuffing
Scissors
Bring:
Two pieces of 81/2 x 11 size felt in one or two colors that are important to you. Craft/sewing supplies if you want
Finding Ourselves through Contour Drawing
What is a contour drawing? A contour drawing is a line drawing. Initially, you begin drawing the outline of a subject. As you draw the outline addition lines will be added to help further define the subject. These additional lines change the drawing froma flat shape to one that looks 2 demential.
Contour drawing pushes us become more observant. As you draw, you slow down and really look at the subject. The best way to draw a contour drawing is never to lift your pen off the paper. The continual flow of the drawing encourages the belief that no line draw is a mistake.
Come and learn the ways the art of contour drawing can support self exploration and personal growth.
Supplied: Paper
Bring:
Black Sharpie
Fine or fat point color markers or Prismacolor Pencils
Creating An Origami Crane
The Crane holds a powerful symbolic meaning in the Japanese culture. The crane itself is a symbol of longevity, good fortune and happiness. It also represents hope, healing, resilience and peace. Come and learn the story about One Thousand Cranes. Fold your own origami crane(s) for wishes of health and healing for yourself and the world.
Supplied: Origami Paper
Create your own Mandala I: Using Color and Light
Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning circle or center. This ancient universal symbol represents the whole, a completeness, the essence of a person or thing. Throughout the millennium, many cultures, individuals and groups have used this form of art making to support personal movement toward finding inner-balance, harmony and well-being.
Provided: Circle
Bring:
Box of Fine Tipped Colored Markers (I prefer Crayola Fine Tip Colored Markers)
Creating A Mandala II: Finding Light in the Darkness
Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning circle or center. This ancient universal symbol, represents the whole, a completeness, the essence of a person or thing. Throughout the millennium, many cultures, individuals and groups have used this form of art making to support movement toward finding inner-balance, harmony and well-being.
Sometimes it is very hard to find any light when things feel or look so dark. Starting with black paper and Prismacolor colored pencils we will draw out the light from the darkness.
Supplied: Black paper
Bring:
Box of 24 Prismacolor color pencils 2 to three white Prismacolor pencils
Zendoodle: Learn How to Dooddle Your Stress Away
Websters Dictionary defines the word doodle as ”aimless or casual scribble, design or sketch.” Come and find out how doodling might stir up a creative solution to a problem or how doodle lines and shapes can become a beautiful creative expression. Explore how doodling can help you relax, leaving the world and its problems behind you. The outcome? A beautiful piece of your own art.
Supplied: Paper and pens
Bring:
Box 24 Prismacolor Pencils or fine tipped colored markers
Create Your Own Visual Accordion Book Of Hopes, Dreams and Wishes
Is there something in your life that you have been dreaming about? Perhaps you are wondering how to transform or change to make this dream real? It is said that if we put our hopes, dreams and wishes out into the universe the chances of manifesting them grows greater.
Using magazines, images, words, quotes, various papers and ephemera you will create your own accordion book of your dreams. Come thinking about what you wish to transform, change, reclaim and explore.
Supplied:
The accordion books - Outside edge size 6x5 Some mix media supplies
Some papers
Fun scissors
Bring if you want:
Favorite Scissors
Glue Stick
Craft supplies
Any kind of paints
Copies of personal photos you may want to put in the book.