Times of transition can bring instability to our lives.
Changes also challenge us to explore new ways to move
forward. This workshop provides a variety of art experiences
designed to help us reflect on the patterns of our life
passages. We playfully end the workshop by creating "survival
kits" to help us along the journey. It has become our
tradition to begin the year with this workshop to "jump
start" the season. NO artistic skill is necessary, only
the willingness to play.
Feb 14, 2009
Create Your Own Heart: Hearts of Stone Workshop
Come learn the contemporary fresco process on natural stone as we celebrate the beauty in our own hearts. Using broken mosaic we will be adding paint to decorate, celebrate and discover the intrinsic beauty in the cracks, crevices and the multi faceted surfaces of the stone and the heart. "Broken hearts may be mended, nailed, screwed or left slightly readjusted. Sometimes it's in the breaking that one finds the necessary pieces to put their heart together", says d.goth.
(materials fee $10)
March 14, 2009
Dreams : Awakening Our Creativity
Through guided imagery, paint and clay we will enter
our dream landscapes, confront dream adversaries, and
find creativity in both our waking and sleeping lives.
April 25, 2009
Spirit Sticks
Connection and loss are both essential elements in our
lives. While painting with vibrant dyes on yards of pure
white silk, stretched on a circle of bamboo poles, we
celebrate our connections with others and with the beauty
of nature. As we create "spirit sticks " with the silk and bamboo, we also acknowledge
the grief of loss, death and separation and the power
of the spirit to move us forward. (Please note, a $10.
materials fee will be added to the cost of this workshop.)
What relationship is more complex than that of mother
and daughter? The process of creating affirmation dolls
is handed down from African American slave mothers, who
practiced this tradition with their daughters as a way
to preserve a sense of dignity, hope and survival of spirit.
This will be a day dedicated to our mothers, daughters
and sisters and will be enriched if you can come with
either one from your own family or someone who has been
like a "mother", "daughter" or "sister" to you. Through
the use of yarn and cloth you will learn to create dolls
which preserve the strength and dignity of life, countering
the critical voices from the past that have held us back
from embracing our full creativity and self confidence.
May 16, 2009
Color Pencil Drawing in the Garden
Come discover how drawing can help us more fully experience the world of nature. During this day in the garden we will practice an approach to the drawing process that will enhance our ability to see. Both the novice and the experienced artist will discover the pleasure and the meditative calm that comes from slow, responsive observation.
$15.00 materials fee or you can bring your own unlined journal and colored pencils.
Southern California Art Therapy Association Conference
Growing your Practice
June 27, 2009 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
8.5 CEUs provided
Whether you are currently in private practice or dream of having a
practice one day, you will learn the tricks of the trade in building
your art therapy private practice and developing a creative marketing
strategy. You will hear a panel of expert art therapists share how they
created their specialties. At the end of the day, you will participate
in an art experiential to envision the growth of your own private
practice from seedlings to a thriving garden.
This ever-popular workshop empowers us as women to explore
the full range of our emotions, from joy to grief, from
delight to anger. Have you been socialized to be sweet,
gentle and quiet, while a part of you would like to scream?
How easy is it for you to say "NO"? Here's a chance for
you to assert your power. Come try out the exhilaration
of claiming your full voice in this fun-filled workshop.
For women only, sorry guys!
Saturday, July 25, 2009 *NEW*
Soul Collage with Jill Fitzgerald
SoulCollage is the process of creating a deck of collaged cards from both found (magazines) and personal images (photos) for the primary purpose of self-exploration and self-acceptance. Suits include dimensions of your life such as: inner personalities, archetypal influences, community and more, working in a 5x7" format, with a playful use of imagery.
All materials are provided but you can bring a couple of photographs or images you want to include. No previous art skill necessary.
Saturday, September 26
Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style
Be inspired to record your life, your trip, or your daily adventures in an illustrated journal as you spend a meditative day drawing and sketching in the healing gardens. Jane will guide you through basic drawing, inking and watercolor painting. You’ll choose simple objects, vignettes or vistas to draw and paint, and then journal your thoughts right onto the drawings. See Jane’s journal here. At the end of the day you will create a small portfolio to hold your artwork. The class is geared for beginners, but all levels are welcome. Fifteen dollar materials fee includes everything you’ll need: watercolor paper, ink pen, pencil and watercolor set with special Niji Waterbrush.
($15 materials fee)
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Drawing Meditation in the Garden with Irina Gronborg
Come discover how drawing can help us more fully experience the world of nature. During this day in the garden we will practice an approach to the drawing process that will enhance our ability to see. Both the novice and the experienced artist will discover the pleasure and the meditative calm that comes from slow, responsive observation.
$15.00 materials fee or you can bring your own unlined journal and colored pencils.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style with Jane LaFazio
Be inspired to record your life, your trip, or your daily adventures in an illustrated journal as you spend a meditative day drawing and sketching in the healing gardens. Jane will guide you through basic drawing, inking and watercolor painting. You’ll choose simple objects, vignettes or vistas to draw and paint, and then journal your thoughts right onto the drawings. See Jane’s journal here. At the end of the day you will create a small portfolio to hold your artwork. The class is geared for beginners, but all levels are welcome. Fifteen dollar materials fee includes everything you’ll need: watercolor paper, ink pen, pencil and watercolor set with special Niji Waterbrush.
($15 materials fee)
All participants are required to preregister. A $25.00,
nonrefundable deposit is required for each workshop you
plan to attend. Deposits are due prior to the workshop.
Download a 2008 workshop information, schedule and registration
form click the button below.
Location:
California Center for Creative Renewal
1905 Crest Drive Encinitas, CA 92024
Time:9:00am
to 5:00pm
Cost: $95.00 per workshop ~some work scholarships
are available ~$10 discount
if registered 2 weeks early ~$5 discount
for each additional workshop
Bring: ~comfortable clothes
(to get good and messy in) ~a journal to write in ~bag lunch
Gourmet breakfast provided in the garden
Image at left: Hildegard von Bingen
Workshop Leaders :
Irina Gronborg is an artist and illustrator, recognized for her botanical drawings in color pencil, artists books, and her Solana Beach home garden. With degrees in studio art from Stanford University and many years teaching drawing in community college, Irina currently teaches at the Athenaeum School of Art. She keeps a daily sketchbook. Irina taught me to draw and continues to be my mentor.
Jill Fitzgerald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Art Therapist, specializing in issues of grief and loss. Jill is also an artist who continues to engage in her own creative process.
Jane LaFazio is a mixed media artist working in
paper and cloth. She 's worked in watercolor
since 1992, and her work can be seen on www.PlainJaneStudio.com and her blog JaneVille.blogspot.com
Lauren Lee is a silk artist, jeweler and poet.
She has been the artist in residence at the Center for
the past five years, bringing beauty, creativity and a
great sense of humor to our workshops.
Ellen Speert, director of the California Center
for Creative Renewal, is a Board Certified and Registered
Art Therapist as well as a Registered Expressive Arts
Therapist. She is a founding member and past president
of the San Diego Art Therapy Association. Ellen leads
workshops for groups, organizations and spiritual communities.
For more information on Ellen click
here
d.goth is a professional artist and published poet, has developed programs, taught art and poetry and is the founder of Hearts of Stone and d.goth contemporary frescoes. Her work has received numerous awards and is in many collections.
"Sowing
the Seeds of Creative Renewal since 1981. "