tapping the vibrations of the muse

if your muse has gone dormant and creativity seems to have gone underground ... this workshop with Leslie Ebert, light & vibrational photographer will remind your muse that spring has sprung!  Creativity & new growth are all around us.  Join us at sage gallery portland on Sunday, March 6th from 2:00 - 5:00 for an inspirational collaging workshop.

$50 for workshop & supplies

Feel free to bring some favorite magazines, glue sticks & any other inspirational items that call to you.  Snacks & tea provided.

Muse

Verb: To consider something thoughtfully

Noun: A source of artistic inspiration

One origin of the word muse is the 14th Century Middle English musen, which meant to mutter, gaze meditatively on, and be astonished.  This is a great description of what we do in museums.  In mythology, the Muses were nine goddesses who symbolized the arts and sciences. Today, a muse is a person or place that serves as an artist's inspiration.  Writers, painters, musicians, and other artists may have muses. Muse can also refer to thinking deeply. If you muse about something, you're giving it serious thought. You can't muse in five seconds. Musing, by definition, takes time.  Artists muse on certain ideas for years.  These photos represent the things and ideas that I muse on, and that have been sources of inspiration for me.  I hope they inspire musing in you as well.

* Do you have a dream that remains unfulfilled year after year?

* Or perhaps dreams from long ago that have been “put away”?

* Maybe you are looking for something new to dream about and bring in to your life?

Kerry Lee, Certified Intentional Creativity™ Teacher & Coach from the San Francisco Bay area will guide us to find some new insight in to your inner wisdoms that you may not accessed before.

Anyone can create their own similar yet completely personal painting with this guided step-by-step method- and there is no experienced needed! Just and open heart and an open mind for the possibilities of something new. 

~ Have you always wanted to paint but haven’t known where to start?

~ Or are you already an artist and looking for something new, or a way to release a creative block?

~ Are you ready to give yourself a one-day get-away from the routine to discover new or additional insight in to yourself?

~ To literally play with paint using a step by step guided method that allows you to be as creative with as you’d like? 

~ What would it be like to know you could not make mistakes? 

~ Are you ready to go in to the new changing season feeling refreshed, peaceful and inspired? 

If you said yes to even one of these then we invite you to come join us to start the New Year with a day of personal insight, color and fun. Discover and paint the symbolic Dream Weaver in you! We’ll also incorporate the beautiful scents and transformative properties of pure essentials oils throughout the day.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

 Red Thread Voices was birthed in early 2014, as I became more and more intrigued by the presence of Lilith and her importance for contemporary women. In my role as a Goddess Guide, I had become increasingly aware of the difficulties women encounter when they try to articulate their desire, their embodied truths, their lived experience. I saw all the ways in which we stifle and silence ourselves. And I saw the roots of that in the collective conditioning that informs what it means to be a woman in the 21st Century.

Artist Statement: My photographs are spiritual metaphors that explore the relationship between self, other and the sometimes vast space in between, which both contain them and set them free from one another. The combinations resonate willfully yet unknowingly with each other, expanding past the borders that confine them, creating a new space with metaphysical boundaries. The ambiguous relationship is both mine with the subject and the viewers with the relationship between images, creating an emotional rather than physical connection between pairings, hopefully asking more questions than they answer.