Jan 9 -Practicing Presence: Time Capsules

As we enter another new year, reflections on "time" can lead us into a deeper experience of the "now". Our special guest artist and JFKU adjunct faculty member Margaret Lindsey will host this evening's creative reverie on the tempos and turnings we experience as time. Please join us!

For more information about Margaret Lindsey: http://www.artransforms.com/artists/lindsey/index.html

image: Pharoah by Jay Defeo

December 12: Divine Purpose & Passion- Dream Candles

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung

December’s ArtDate explores purpose and passion through dream-work, meditation and collage. While holding our deepest, heartfelt intentions, we’ll create a Dream Candle to reflect our unique, divine purpose. The Dream Candle serves as a metaphorical vessel of our own inner light, shining the way if the path grows dark. Used in personal ritual, Dream Candles can remind us to keep our creative passions burning, even on the darkest nights.

Pictures from the Altered Books ArtDate

We had loads of fun during the book making Art Date, as you can see in these pictures... I am still amazed by the results!

November: Gifts & Gratitude- Altered Book Journals

“I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.”

- Fred Rogers
(aka Mr. Rogers)

Create A Gift of Gratitude!

November’s ArtDate is an expression of gratitude for our own inherent gifts and life’s blessings. Using a variety of collage and mixed-media techniques, you’ll create an altered book-journal to hold the musings, memories and messages of your divine self and all that you love. An ongoing practice in presence (and presents!) from your soul to your self, the altered book is a gift of your own creativity, abundance and love.

The MadHatters ArtDate!

Here are some highlights from our "Mad Hats!" ArtDate- Twas an extraordinary display of crafty creativity and colorful character conjuring! Plus some playful, deep soul work was done, fer sure! Thanks to all for sharing, and baring, your secret selves!

October: Shadow Selves & Secret Identities: Mad Hats!

Friday, October 10, 2008 7:30-10:00 pm


"To confront a person with his own shadow
is to show him his own light."
- Carl Jung

Come celebrate your "secret self" and create a quirky, mad hat to match!

Tonight we will playfully explore the shadow archetype and ways in which its repression inhibits our creativity. By bringing unacceptable or so-called "dark" aspects of our own psyche to light, we integrate and grow towards authentic expression and wholeness. Rediscover and don your "darker identity" in a safe, accepting, silly atmosphere. Who knew being bad could be so much fun?

Season 2: Calendar of ArtDates

Second Fridays 7:30-10pm in studio 2*

OCTOBER 10 Shadow Selves & Secret Identities: Mad Hats

NOVEMBER 14 Gifts & Gratitude: Altered Book Journals

DECEMBER 12 Divine Purpose & Passion: Dream Candles

JANUARY 9 Practicing Presence: Time Capsules

FEBRUARY 13 Relationship & Ritual: Love Altars

MARCH 13 Vibrant Energy: Ink, Brush, Paper

APRIL 10 Sacred Earth: Collaborative Mandalas

MAY 8 Playful Spirit: Body Improv* (in studio 1)

April: Body Improv with Seth Eisen

For April, we're doing a different kind of ArtDate-- with a special guest host, Seth Eisen!

Let loose in the body and allow the subconscious mind guide you. Led by JFK faculty member and performer, Seth Eisen and students from JFK’s specialization in Movement Improvisation and Poetics, this evening will start with easy warm ups then move into a playful improv, using the body and voice as the primary media of expression. Get ready for an the evening of unexpected wisdom and hilarious spontaneity as we strengthen the mind-body connection and deepen intuitive impulses.

For more information about performing artist Seth Eisen's work, check out:

www.eyezen.org

March: Tall Tales on Paper

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way...
things I had no words for." -Georgia O'Keefe

Friday, March 28th we'll delve into personal journey and creative myth in a playful night of expressive painting. Come explore your own beginnings, middles and ends, as you paint a story, true or imagined, and share it (or not) with others. Tempera paint, oil pastels, brushes and paper will be on hand for individual or collaborative works.

(Feel free to bring your own supplies- acrylics, support surface and/or brushes if you prefer!)

February: Poetic Possibilities for the Planet

"Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart...
Who looks outside, dreams
who looks inside, awakens."

- Carl Jung

This Month's Theme:
Poetic Possibilities for the Planet

Through a creative, collaborative collage, we'll explore our deepest intentions for our shared world.

January: Time Capsules

"Art is not a mirror to reflect reality,

but a hammer with which to shape it."

- Bertolt Brecht

This month's theme is "TIME Capsules", inspired by the western New Year and the Joseph Cornell exhibtion at SFMoMA (which ended this month).

http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=264

Create a unique mixed-media shadow box that represents a pocket of time. There will be plently of magazines, tin boxes, and trinkets on hand to work with, but *feel free to bring your own inspired oddities and/or supplies to use or donate to the party.