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SUMMARY:10-12:00   Maris Gilbert – Water: Beauty in Peril workshop –Studio  $5
DESCRIPTION:Maris Gilbert    Project Description   – Topic: Water Quality. Title: Water: the beauty and peril of our waters  (working title) My work is exploring connections of our waters from the northern parts of our state (Itasca) downstream along the Mississippi river through the Twin cities to our beautiful Lake Pepin\, in peril due to sediment rise\, agricultural runoff\, and invasive species\, .  Then moving all the way down to the southern part of our country to the coast of Florida which is affected by all the water which empties into the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi river.  There are problems such as red tides\, sea rise\, plastics\, mangrove and marsh changes\, and control of water flow all along the Gulf Coast\, to the Everglades and Key West. \nI create paintings\, collage and treasure boxes to address the beauty and peril of  two ecosystems along this pathway from the north to the south: Lake Pepin’s sediment issues and the Mangroves of the Everglades and Gulf Coast.  I have chosen these two locations because of a love I have for both areas.  Lake Pepin is my favorite Minnesota Lake\, and South Florida which is my home of my childhood and my home in my heart. \nFor this exhibit I will be linking the waters of Itasca on through Lake Pepin and then the waters of south Florida. I am creating an installation/environment that leads the viewer from the familiar gallery area to the unfamiliar upstairs area of my studio where they will become immersed in the imagery of mangroves\, ocean life\, shorelines and waters of the ocean. \nI believe that linking our waters in this heart-felt way and this urgent climate change time \,is important for raising and awaking our consciousness\,  bring acute awareness and immediate actions (SEE\, SAY\, DO)regarding our connections on this planet earth: we are connected by water\, made 70% of water\, and depend on water for life\, as does most life. \nAuthentic Voices:  Rylee Main\, Executive Director\, Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance. Rylee received her Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs\, with a focus on water resources in Minnesota. In 2017 Rylee was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to represent environmental organizations on Minnesota’s Clean Water Council. Rylee currently serves as chair of the Minnesota Environmental Fund’s Board of Directors and formerly served as Treasurer for the Minnesota Conservation Federation.   email: rylee.main@lakepepinlegacyalliance.com     phone: (630) 806-9909 \nWorkshop: An hour and half workshop where participants will engage in a guided imagery about water/body/ocean/rivers. They will be given small bottles of water collected from the shores of the Mississippi directly east of the studio\, and asked to create a treasure box/shrine/prayer for the water using a variety of collage materials.\, setting an intention for one action they will take for the waters beyond their prayers/thoughts and awareness. They will also be given an empty bottle and encouraged to visit shorelines and collect water\, perhaps creating their own shrines for these waters too. By experiencing the water and building awareness of going to the water and caring for it\, it is my hope that awareness and actions will spread.\n______________________________________________________________________________________________\nMaris Gilbert   Biography    jmarisgilbert@gmail.com \n“My art evokes positive healing emotions\, inspiring hope and peace\, while also addressing the beauty and peril of life.” \nI am passionate about the waters in Florida where I grew up\, and about the waters in Minnesota where I now live. \nFLORIDA   Seeing beauty and peril by exploring and learning about its waters\, mangrove ecosystems\, the Everglades\, and coastal shorelines. \nMINNESOTA  Seeing beauty and peril by exploring and learning about fresh water mussels\, trees\, plants\, sediment\, erosion and the history/future of our rivers\, lakes and wetlands. \nMy passion is finding beauty in the juxtapositions and connections of these very different yet equally vital natural environments.  As an artist in the healing profession\, it is my call to share a lifetime of looking and seeing into our natural environment\, to use my passion to help people to live healthy\, fulfilling lives\, and to influence the care of our planet.  I am fascinated by shorelines. Shorelines are where a multitude of elements interface\, overlap and intersect. I will often stand at the shore just to watch and truly see the lines formed by the rhythm of the tides\, the wind and the changing light. I share these timeless moments in my art\, where life and beauty overlap\, ever-changing and yet constant.      It is my hope that my images spark awareness of the beauty in peril.
URL:https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/calendar-event/10-1200-maris-gilbert-water-beauty-in-peril-workshop-studio-5/
LOCATION:Squirrel Haus\, 3450 Snelling Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:1-4:00 Kira Corser – Fish Tales & Climate Concerns workshop  $5
DESCRIPTION:Project Description   KIRA CARRILLO CORSER – Topic: Climate Change & Human RightsWhy Are We Here? Sea Changes ACT:  This project addresses critical ocean changes\, collaboratively with scientists and artists working with communities to create innovative motivators for civic action; while addressing the causes of climate change\, plastic pollution\, fishing and these impacts on human rights.Purpose: The destruction of our oceans is largely hidden under water\, so not visible to the average citizen.  Our goal is to (enticingly) make these destructive changes visible\, more understandable and more emotionally connected to encourage action.Virtual Undersea Experience: 18-foot-wide and 8-foot-tall\, the eyes of fish\, whales\, sharks fall around people as videos light up 3-layered-billowing-walls of white-suspended-silks.   Viewers walk between these as they see and hear facts\, music\, sounds. Shifting perspectives\, shift the experience to make it more magical:  Think tiny sea horse vs a whale’s point of view vs shark and kid. This work has been evolving since 2012\, with participation in the U.S. Human Rights Network’s conference connecting climate change and it’s impact on human rights.Authentic Voice:   Dr. Tim Lueker\, Researcher in Climate Change at Scripps Institution of Oceanography\, La Jolla CA and  from the Sierra Club/Human Rights and Climate Change affecting Trade/ U.S. Human Rights Network.   http://www.drtimfineart.com/Dr._Tim_Fine_ART/Artists_Statement.html\n\nWorkshop   Help the Planet\, and Have fun too! \nThis workshop includes ART MAKING\, with video recordings\, so the participants can continue to enjoy and sustain commitment.  This workshop encourages artistic expression\, interactive collaborative art making\, and story telling. \nThis workshop has 2 options for participants:  \n\nTo promote understanding of climate\, pollution and how human rights areconnected with ocean and water issues\, we will draw and paint on “Fish Masks” based on real life images of fish.\nTo create Ocean Avatar Videos to encourage caring about planet issues we willpaint our hands and/or faces with body paint\, AND then record family stories about fishing\, concerns about climate\, connections to human rights\, solutions to plastic pollution\, etc.\n\nBiography   Kira Carrillo Corser has designed and produced art throughout California\, and the USA for 22 years\, in addition to working as staff photographer at KPBS (10 yrs.) and later at California State University Monterey Bay (8 yrs.) Based in San Diego County\, she works in partnership with other artists\, musicians\, nonprofits\, community and civic leaders.  Art projects have been awarded: The National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, Encinitas Rotary Peace Maker of the Year 2017\, San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst 2014 with Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater and the DNA of Creativity Grant from the San Diego Visual Arts Network. \nShe is a co-founder and co-directs the POSTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE NATIONAL PROJECT\, Art is the Next Peace: Connecting Communities (Ca Silk Paintings) andSea Changes ACT with local scientists and artists.   These projects are collaborations with intergenerational communities and promote peace and nonviolence. \nExhibitions and participants include: The Carter Center with President Carter and International Human Rights Defenders; Inter-Dependence Day Celebration\, a Compassionate California Partnership\, Sacramento (2017); Semi-permanent installations include the Atlanta BeltLine\, as Installation Artists\, (a collaborative multi-year fellowship) where 25\,000 people see the work weekly\, Atlanta Georgia (2015 – 2017.) and 12 California schools\, including El Cajon\, San Diego\, and Fallbrook\n \n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Member 
URL:https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/calendar-event/1-400-kira-corser-fish-tales-climate-concerns-workshop-5/
LOCATION:Squirrel Haus\, 3450 Snelling Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:6-9:30  Jill Waterhouse Bill Doherty  Opposite (of) Sex Workshop – Library   Invitation Only
DESCRIPTION:Project Description:     Jill Waterhouse   Topic: Gender/Sexual Equality (Reconciliation) \n“We are so much more than this…” is an examination and exploration of the changes and challenges – for both men and women – embedded in the exploding new paradigm around gender equity\, sexual equality and healthy boundaries and the subsequent necessity to redefine the roles and relationships between men and women. In addition\, it examines the stereotypes that both sexes have about each other – and themselves – and offers up another lens through which to view these deeply held preconceptions. Lastly\, my hope is that this piece and the development and workshop(s) around the topic will encourage honest dialogue between the sexes on how men and women can negotiate the delicate and tricky terrain we now find ourselves in\, so that we not only do not lose ourselves\, but might find ourselves anew. \n“We are so much more than this…” will be a mixed media sculptural installation with two life sized figures\, one male and one female\, set in relation to one another.  The female sculpture is complete\, created from a vintage mannequin. (70”H x 30”W x 30”D.) The male figure will be created using a vintage mannequin also\, though will be somewhat larger than the female piece. But\, unlike the female\, the male piece will be created in collaboration with my authentic and expert voices over the next few months. I am developing a process by which their experience and imaginations\, and those of our audience\, help me to sculpt what this piece becomes\, both figuratively and literally\, over time. I will use my interviews\, meetings and discussions with both my official authentic/expert voices – and the voices of everyday men (and women) that are authentic\, but not in an official or expert capacity – to craft and/or collect the images\, symbols\, text\, objects and physical shape that the sculpture needs to embody in order to more fully represent the male experience. \nTopic Experts:\nWilliam J. Doherty\, Ph.D.\, Professor of Family Social Science\, U of MN\, MN. Phone: 612-625-4752 http://www.cehd.umn.edu/fsos/directory/DohertyB.asp\,   www.better-angels.org \nWorkshop:\nWaterhouse is working with Dr. Bill Doherty of Better Angels to create an intense workshop dialogue between men and women to examine the challenges and changes embedded in the exploding new paradigm around gender equity\, sexual equality and healthy boundaries triggered by the #MeToo movement. \nTheir work together will be loosely based on Dr. Doherty’s renowned work with Better Angels to bring together people from opposite sides of the American political spectrum for honest and meaningful dialogue to help bridge the gap between their viewpoints and/or beliefs. Using that same model of respect\, real listening and openness\, Dr. Doherty and Waterhouse will moderate what could be a difficult\, but ultimately powerful and meaningful discussion between the sexes to try to talk about what we never seem to talk about: our real expectations\, hopes\, and fears for our relationships with each other\, be they friendships\, familial or intimate. \nIn the spirit of that model\, the “Opposite Sex” workshop dialogue will train participants in the protocol of an open dialogue and ask each of them to commit to both listening to the other side and being open to their experience and stories. They will do so in a “fishbowl” model with each side alternately in the fishbowl talking and the other side listening. The point of the workshop is not to try to change participants’ opinions\, but to create empathy for the other side’s point of view and experience. \nThe workshop’s design emphasizes listening and learning rather than declaring and debating. We rarely get the chance to listen in on how people of the opposite sex process issues among themselves – that’s an advantage of this “fishbowl” model. \nThe process ends with the opportunity to produce something in writing to share with others\, which makes this more than a conversation for the participants. With enough groups producing documents in the future – if this model moves forward – perhaps there could be follow up for other action steps. \nJill Waterhouse (the one in the middle) has been a practicing artist for over 35 years\, as well as a published author\, performance artist\, community activist and curator. Her work is primarily sculpture\, installations and perfomance/social practice art. She has exhibited extensively in museums\, galleries\, and alternative spaces in the United States\, including the Walker Arts Center and Mia\, her home town arts institutions. Her work was also included in the 1995 NGO Forum exhibition in China. \nWaterhouse has been heavily involved in a number of large community/social art projects and public performances. She has been a long time member\, mentor and former director of WARM (Women’s Art Resources of MN) and a long time member and chapter president/co-president of WCA MN (Women’s Caucus for Art MN). She has also been involved with the Art Car and Art Shanty Projects for years\, a member of “What We Need is Here\,” an environment and arts group at The Phipps in Hudson\, Wisconsin. She has received grants and awards from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council\, and the Minneapolis Arts Commission. McKnight/Annenberg/Horncrest Foundations.   Artist: Minneapolis\, Minnesota
URL:https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/calendar-event/6-930-jill-waterhouse-bill-doherty-opposite-of-sex-workshop-library-invitation-only/
LOCATION:Squirrel Haus\, 3450 Snelling Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:10-12:00 PM   Barb Kobe Endangered Feelings Adult Workshop    $5
DESCRIPTION:Barb Kobe   Project Description  – Topic: Emotional Nature – Embodied Knowing – Empathetic Connection\nMaking art and healing dolls has helped me to express my feelings\, trust my body\, mind and spirit and develop an intuitive and empathetic connection with myself\, nature and others human beings.Published book : The Healing Doll Way\nA Guided Process Creating Art Dolls for Self-Discovery\, Awareness\, and TransformationEight art and healing dolls will express emotion and use metaphors of the natural world\, symbol and story to embellish and express feelings. These “dolls” will invite the viewers to reflect on their own emotions and feeling expressions\, and perhaps create a dialog with others about how emotional art elicits an empathetic response.Making healing dolls will bring out feelings—often ones you think you’ve hidden or stuffed. When I show one of my dolls that symbolizes a deep healing process about anger\, sadness\, or fear\, the person viewing it will often say “it’s too scary or ugly. Often I hear\, “Is that a voodoo doll?” or “Why would you make such an ugly doll?” Despite these first responses\, most people are still drawn to dolls made from the creator’s deep emotional regions. They want to hear the stories and meanings of the dolls.It is my continuing quest to find innovative artmaking ways to create change in myself and others—from a state of pain\, numbness\, and disease\, to one of well-being\, continuous growth\, and healing. My ultimate goal is that the viewer and the maker entertain the possibility that making healing and transformative dolls can create positive change and help in dealing with pain\, struggle\, uncomfortable feelings\, and or life challenges. This process can be an opportunity to learn more about yourself\, grow in your wisdom\, connect with your intuition and transform an aspect of your life. \nTopic Expert– Pat Samples\nOur bodies are where our stories live and our aliveness resides\, longing to be expressed. I support people in allowing their bodies to reveal these stories by unveiling what’s alive in them. I offer them open-hearted attention\, permission to move from their internal impulses\, and a non-anxious\, witnessing presence. My services included one-on-one sessions\, creative movement sessions called Free Motion\, and workshops\, called Essential Motion\, that enrich body awareness and aliveness through mindful attention and movement. I have studied Essential Motion with founder Karen Roeper for 13 years and led weekly Free Motion sessions for 15 years. I have given talks and workshops on body awareness topics across the U.S.  and am the author of Body Odyssey: Lessons from the Bones and Belly and The Secret Wisdom of a Woman’s Body: Freeing Yourself to Live Passionately and Age Fearlessly. \nI am also an avid champion for creative aging. Research shows that we all have a burst of artistic impulses in our older years and an urgent drive to tell our important stories. From my first job in a nursing home while I was in college to my current work serving senior living communities across the metropolitan area\, I’ve seen firsthand how this creative burst\, when guided by skilled teaching artists\, transforms lives. The stories\, resilience and creative capacities of older people come to life! Topic Expert\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota \nWorkshop – Feelings Friendly:  For all ages\n \nWhat’s Your Issue\nOctober 4-14\, 2018\nSquirrel Haus Arts\nSouth Minneapolis \nBarb Kobe\nEndangered Feelings\nOctober 13\, 2018\n10:00 am to noon\nLibrary \nCome spend 2 hours playing with emotions and feelings.\nMeet Barb’s feeling tools: Endangered Feelings puppets\nand feeling dolls\, “Numbfull and the Fulls”. Participate in group\nresearch of primary emotions. Discuss emotions and feelings\nin ways you have never done before. Learn how to express\nyour feelings in a variety of creative ways.  \nHere’s link to my Pat Samples expert\nhttp://www.patsamples.com/ \n__________________________________________________________________________________________\n\nBarb Kobe  Biography \nBarb Kobe is a Mixed Media Artist\, Professional Teaching Artist\, Author\, Mentor and Creativity Coach. She has a BA in Psychology with an emphasis in expressive arts\, as well as\, a Practioner Certification in Neuro Linguistic Programming. She is trained as an ARTbundance Creativity Coach and a Licensed Journey Path Facilitator. \nBarb Kobe is a Minnesota one-of-a-kind art and healing doll artist. She was a very sensitive child who found great comfort making art and playing with dolls. When she had children of her own she learned about emotional intelligence as she taught her children about their feelings. She developed and manufactured a set of puppets that helped in the expression of feelings. While making them she noticed that as she would think about that feeling\, where she felt it in her body and notice where she was expressing it in her life. \n  \n \nShe shared her creations with over one thousand children in elementary schools and learned that “when I hold a feeling doll in my hand or lap\, in other words\, outside of my body\, the children would easily share a feeling story”.  Barb transferred this awareness to her own personal feeling\, and healing dolls and has been making her emotional dolls ever since. Emotions and healing are her primary sources of inspiration and drive her doll and figurative art. She says\, “My dolls are figurative sculpture and emotional metaphors that express feelings\, beliefs and connections to body\, mind and spirit.  Sometimes I begin with a feeling\, a struggle\, or a wish to visualize some internal and invisible energy.  I do this to visually speak to it and to develop a relationship with a hidden aspect of myself.  At other times I simply delight in the playing with the materials\, colors and shapes\, seeing what comes from immersing myself in the creative process.  All of my dolls mirror some aspect of hidden personal beliefs and stories.” \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/calendar-event/10-1200-barb-kobe-endangered-feelings-adult-workshop-5/
LOCATION:Squirrel Haus\, 3450 Snelling Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:1-5:00    Wesley May – Identity Workshop – Library   $5
DESCRIPTION:_______________________________________________________________________________________Project Description:  Wesley May  Topic: Identity \nAt these exhibitions\, I demonstrate\, with all the care and concern of love\, my craft and technique and explain how it shows in each brush stroke. I speak of how we approach a blank canvas\, is similar to how we approach life\, either we step up and just do it\, or we stop\, hesitate not wanting to make a mistake. As we move through a painting\, what we thought might have been mistakes disappear as we continue to work on the painting\, and the more beautiful the paintings become\, the same with life\, what we thought were mistakes\, we can fix them and move on\, and the more beautiful people we become. I feel that sharing truths while creating images is visually expressing that which is in the heart and creates an experience of art with resounding ripples. I am spiritually grounded\, I walk my talk\, and I lead by example. \nWorkshop:  \nWorkshop: Join me in exploring your identity as we discover who we are by collaboratively creating an 8 X 10 foot mural in a 4 hour workshop.  I guide you through identifying your beliefs so you can understand who we are. Limit 10.  All Ages. Mural will be auctioned for the benefit of ACW.  Installation at the location of your choice. \nExpert Voice:\nDaniel May is a 22 year old from the Red Lake Chippewa tribe  and is a long time associate who has used the strategies developed by Wesley May to overcome  obstacles in his life. He will share his youth voice story with participants as part of the workshop. \n  \nBiography\nI am a Native American from the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota and a First Peoples Fund artist. I believe that an artist’s role in the community is to bring awareness of the voices that are rarely heard\, not to lead the charge of any cause\, but to unleash the potential of others through art. I travel around to art shows\, powwows\, and other community events and empower others through Live Exhibition paintings. Expressing truths as the paintings are created. I encourage children\, youth\, adults\, and elders to share with me\, their knowledge of art\, to become part of a kindred energy in the creation of each piece. Bringing awareness of art in our lives from the first brushstroke\, to building confidence in those that choose to include their voice. \n  \nUsing Creator given talents to serve others\, I demonstrate the simplicity of life through paint\, utilizing the four colors of the medicine wheel as my starting point\, where our roots grow\, to swirl outward to be more inclusive of all races\, all emotions\, and all parts of being.  As Anishinabe we have always been inclusive and non-judgmental\, always encouraging and doing our best. This is the way I live\, the way I paint\, the way I use my talent to serve people and the Creator.
URL:https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/calendar-event/1-500-wesley-may-identity-workshop-library-5/
LOCATION:Squirrel Haus\, 3450 Snelling Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:11-1:00    Layl McDill Device Persuasive Technologies  Workshop- Library $5
DESCRIPTION:Project Description and Workshop   – Layl McDill  Topic:   Persuasive Technologies\n\n“Do you feel a loss of control and/or feelings of timelessness when using the Internet or Smartphone?”\,  “Do you find yourself seeking more stimulating/interesting (e.g.\, exciting) material or content on the Internet or Smartphone? “\, “Are you using the Internet/Smartphone as a way of escaping from problems or relieving a bad mood\, (e.g.\, boredom\, frustration\, anxiety or depression)?”  These are three of the questions on the “Virtual Addiction Test” created by David Greenfield\, who runs the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction.   So many of us will answer yes to these questions and so many of us have some range of device addiction to deal with in our lives.  If we aren’t dealing with it ourselves it is likely that our children and teenagers are.  Everywhere you look people’s heads are bent down gazing into the ever scrolling screen of our devices.My project’s goal is awareness of device addiction.  We might know we spend a lot of time on our devices but we do we know we actually have the signs of a real addiction? How is the addiction affecting our lives or our children’s lives?  I will speak to a therapist about their experience with teens that must be separated from their phones in order to start intensive treatment for other addictions and depression.  How does this relationship with their phones effect these teen’s mental health?  What changes happen when they are free from all the phone’s stimulus.  What happens when the phones are given back?  What have they seen over the years as the use of smart phones has become so widespread?The art piece I plan to create with be interactive and ask the viewer to add to a “Device Monster” by thinking about their relationship to their devices and consider how their relationship with their device might effect their lives.  I work in polymer clay and my work is very playful and colorful.  My goal is to create a piece that draws you in with humor but gives the viewer an image that will stick in their mind when they ponder how social media\, aps and online games effect their lives.Authentic Voice:\nAngie Kalthoff is a K12 technology integrationist\, has a focus on elementary\, for a large public school district in central Minnesota. She previously taught English as a Second Language (ESL) for students who were new to the country. She has an interest in bringing Computational Thinking(CT) to the elementary classroom. Outside of her full time job she is a consultant and trainer for education technology companies. Her focus is meaningful technology integration where she creates opportunities for technology creation rather than consumption with devices. \n  \nWorkshop: \nWe will start with a conversation about our own personal relationship to our devices- What would you like to change. What is positive about such things as social media and other smart phone aps?  What are the negatives?  How do you feel different after too much “device time”?  Then we will get away from the virtual world and experience hands on COLOR in the form of polymer clay.  Learn a few step by step techniques that you can use to create a small sculpture of your own “Device Monster”.  This creature will then be taken home and baked and set in a place where it can remind you what you don’t want to become when you get sucked into the virtual world.  Two hour workshop \nBiography \nLayl McDill \nI use wonderment as a mechanism to show the things we live with everyday in a new perspective\, like the green hills you drive by everyday or the laundry hanging on the line. When you are surrounded by my polymer clay sculptures it is as if you are seeing the world through a patterned lens where the mundane is much more precious and mysterious. \nMy technique and materials are also very mysterious. I use primarily polymer clay with the ancient technique of millefiore. Tiny images that cover every surface of my sculptures inevitably make the viewer wonder “How did she do that?” And even though I have been doing it for more than twenty years\, it still seems amazing that I can create a tiny picture inside a chunk of clay. \nI have spent my artistic career rendering versions of the world we live in into windows of wonderment. With my most recent work I hope to tingle the viewer’s imagination towards opening their mind to seeing something in a new perspective. In one of my recent pieces\, “The Root of the Problem\,” a tree grows above a bulb of roots filled with antique mirrors. “Air Celebration” is a joyful piece that makes you think about our most precious invisible necessity.  Both of these pieces speak of awareness or even possibly give a subtle nudge towards activism to change our impact on the earth. \nViewers are drawn to the magic and wonder of my work. They will be not only fascinated by the technique but presented with some thoughts about ways to look at the world we live in and given their daily dose of wonderment. \n \n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Member 
URL:https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/calendar-event/11-100-layl-mcdill-device-persuasive-technologies-workshop-library-5/
LOCATION:Squirrel Haus\, 3450 Snelling Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:1:00-3:00    Barbara Bridges – Recovery  Workshop  $5
DESCRIPTION:Project Description    Barbara Bridges Topic:  RECOVERY   Today\, I’m Alright.   \n \nProject Description    Barbara Bridges Topic:  RECOVERY   Today\, I’m Alright.   \nRECOVERY. If you are reading this word\, “RECOVERY” it would be unusual if you do NOT know anyone who WAS\, IS\, or you wish WERE\, in RECOVERY. What does that word actually mean when connected to trauma? I chose to use the word RECOVERY because my series is a message of hope.   Your trauma is not terminal. You are not broken. You can create your own life rafts of hope and resilience with practical strategies \nArt to Change the World’s first event\, See. Say. DO. Intends to change the world by using art to deliver a message of hope and serving as a catalyst for positive concrete change. Please open all the cupboards and drawers\, consider what you see and take one of the contents\, if invited.  Leave your reflections and comments in the art box and attend our workshop! \nIn my project on Recovery\, my team members are Marya Hornbacher\, an author who is in recovery from addiction  http://www.maryahornbacher.com/ and David Swarthout\, a psychotherapist specializing in addiction. Marya has already influenced my thinking. http://www.drdavidswarthout.com/ She indicated when people ask her if she is “in recovery” she responds with strength\, contentment\, and peace of mind “Today\, I’m alright.”  I decided to name the work after this insight. Personally\, I have experienced addiction (food) and my friends and family have also been challenged.  It would be difficult to find anyone who does NOT have this issue in their lives- we just don’t talk about it – so we suffer alone. I now believe my loved ones are sick of people treating them like it is all over-that they are recovered.  I now know that Today- they are alright.  This new insight has informed the direction of my large 5‘X 5’ W X 7 ‘ work. The sculpture has  influenced the workshop design which will  engage our audience moving forward. https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/barbara-bridges/ \nWorkshop: \nOur workshop invites EVERYONE who has a connection with TRAUMA to join us for two hours of resource sharing\, art-making\, conversation and most importantly – identifying strategies for change.  This workshop welcomes all people who have had their life touched by trauma: People\, and friends and loved ones\, recovering from disordered eating\, gambling\, chemicals\, alcohol\, or sex addictions and people recovering from death\, divorce\, cults or abuse. \nParticipants will be invited to select a recovery talisman from the drawers and cupboards of TODAY to share at the workshop and then take home to help in their ongoing recovery. Includes Higher Power sculptures\, wranklets and TODAY\, I’m Alright t-shirts. \nRegister with Barbara or at the check-in table or online:\nhttps://www.arttochangetheworld.org/calendar-event/100-300-barbara-bridges-recovery-workshop-kitchen-5/     Join our October 14 Workshop: Register \nDavid Swarthout\, http://www.drdavidswarthout.com/ a psychotherapist specializing in addiction.\n \n \n  \nHow the art gets made. Journal  \n \n\nRead about Artist as Intervenor. \nI can see I need a few larger antique boxes so I am off to Savers (40% off for the over 55 crowd on Tuesday on objects that are already being sold for 10 cents on the dollar). \nAugust 8\, 2018 \nNeed YOUR feedback! The last month has brought many visitors to the studio with feedback on my Recovery sculpture\, “Today\, I’m Alright” and many stolen moments early in the morning and late at night for studio time. My Tuesday visits to Savers to enjoy the 40% off the already 80% off geezer discounts on found objects have been particularly fruitful. As many of you know… I believe that I am simply an intervener in the journeys of the objects I adopt for my sculptures. I create a new memory for them to take forward with their new message. Each participant will go to the drawers and cupboards to choose a talisman to discuss at the workshop and then take home with them to help in their recovery. Read more about the sculpture http://bridgescreate.com/installation/Here are the Recovery Talismans I have so far. I need an idea for sex addiction. Need recommendations for books which have helped in your recovery. What am I missing? \n\nHigher Power Door knobs\nNasty Women bi-valves\nLoss of a Child Babies\nDrops of hair of dog\nContentment Stones\nDivorce hearts\nRe-Birth Skulls\nAddiction phone lifelines\nFiles to smooth the edges\nPlush Therapy animals\nImpossible Barbies\nOdds Suck poker chips\nDevice Monstors\nNIBCO Rings\nSkeleton Key to Biology\nYinYang balls\nCancer Hats\nRecovery Wranklets\nHeart Stitch Card\nNeed Sex Addiction object\nNeed Prayer Cards \nBooks in “Today I’m Alright” Library. Suggestions? \n365 Days of Walking the Red Road By Terri Jean\nMeditations for People Who Worry By Anne Wilson Schaef\nEverything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask By Anton Treuer\nWasted By Marya Hornbacher\nAwesome Respect to the Homies Poems by Joseph Allen\, Megan Chlebeck\, Carolyn Dotterweich\, Jon McKenna\, Emily Cozine\, \, Tommy Griffiths\, Barb Neal\, Allie Holden and Delrico Bishop\nThe Four Agreements By Don Miguel Ruiz\nThe Red Road to Wellbriety\nAdult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents By Lindsay C. Gibson\, PsyD \n\n\nRead More \n__________________________________________________________________________________ \n Biography   Barbara Rogers Bridges  612 845-0416 www.arttochangetheworld.org              \nhttp://bridgescreate.com  drb@bridgescreate.com\nBarbara is the Founder and Director of Art to Change the World. \nBarbara has been an artist and a teacher/college professor for over 40 years. Her social practice sculptures have been exhibited in Maine\, Miami\, the Virgin Islands\, Maryland\, Chicago\, Mexico\, Spain\, Canada\, and throughout Minnesota. Bridges taught K-12 art in Minnesota\, Maine\, and the Virgin Islands. She was voted Art Teacher of the Year twice in Minnesota. She is a sculptor on a mission to demonstrate how art can serve as a catalyst for social change and is committed to creating\, and empowering others to create\, high quality art objects which honor their powerful message. \nBarbara has partnered with various Minnesota institutions developing curriculum.  These include the Minneapolis school district\, the Minnesota Online High School\, Perpich Center\, the Walker Art Center\, the Mpls. Institute of Art\, the Weisman Museum\, and the Minnesota Museum of Art. ArtsconnectED.org \nBarbara has served as a professor for over twenty years at the university of Minnesota and Bemidji State University and has contributed in a variety of ways. She was the architect of the unique DLiTE (Distributed Learning in Teacher Education)  – a hybrid online K-8 teacher licensure partnership program and the FasTrack secondary initiative designed for previously degreed candidates who wish to teach high school. The combined programs serve 250 teacher licensure students per semester\, average age 35\, working\, and place bound with children. Read More: http://bridgescreate.com \n1. Reflecting Pool http://bridgescreate.com/installation/reflection-pool/  2.Three Waves http://bridgescreate.com/artwork/3450/\n3.Transcending Race http://bridgescreate.com/artwork/transcending-race/ 4.Ode to Gluten http://bridgescreate.com/installation/ode-to-gluten/
URL:https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/calendar-event/100-300-barbara-bridges-recovery-workshop-kitchen-5/
LOCATION:Squirrel Haus\, 3450 Snelling Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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