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Regenerations: Expressions - An Open Air Art Show
Participants of the five-part series Regenerations: Cultivating Connections to Earth, Art & Activism display their visual and written expressions developed throughout the course of five months in an outdoor public art gallery in an easily accessed wilderness location. Come have a glass of celebratory wine with us, speak with the artists and engage in an inspiring dialogue about activating all of our creative expressions for the greater good of our physical planet. Expressions: An Open Air Art Show takes place Friday, October 6 from 5 – 7 p.m. More information visit www.earthartactivism.com. About the “Regenerations: Cultivating Connections to Earth, Art & Activism” series To regenerate means to bring into renewed existence, to replace that which is injured, and give it a new and more vigorous life. Absorb yourself into Nature. Be still. Reconnect. Regenerations: Cultivating Connections to Earth, Art & Activism is an active investigation of our relationships to Nature, community, creative expression and outreach through outdoor immersion, writing and visual art. All are invited to come back into your relationship with the earth through this five-part series based in all-day outdoor hiking experiences. Held one day a month from June through October, the cumulative sessions explore the practices of stillness and noticing, journaling and brainstorming, and constructing temporal works of art in the landscape. Play with the inherent metaphor and symbolism found in Nature, sculpt with natural and introduced objects in the landscape, channel creative skills to express raw emotion, experiment with mixed media artmaking and word play. Utilize these inspired activities in the visual and written arts as a medium and processing tool for: re-connecting with the natural world; identifying our individual and social spectrums of comfort and fear; learning about local issues affecting our environment; exploring art as a social practice; and finding positive resolution through creative expression and activism. Collaboratively taught by visual artist Ivy Walker and writer Molly Murfee, each session revolves around a different topic and takes place in a different wilderness setting allowing participants to explore the depth of topics through being wholly engaged and immersed in the changing weather and elements of landscape. Participants who choose have the opportunity to communicate their visual and written expressions developed throughout the sessions in a local open air, public art display at the culmination of the series. An additional opportunity further takes these expressions, or representations of them, and sends them out into the larger global community of legislatures, industry representatives and other relevant audiences as a positive change creative outreach. Who May Participate? All are welcome to participate – community members, travelers, undergraduate and graduate students, teachers and part-time residents. Continuing Education Units and academic credit available for an extra fee. Registration: Regenerations: Cultivating Connections to Earth, Art & Activism is designed to be taken as a full series with each session building on the other. While taking the full series is strongly encouraged, participants may also choose sessions individually. Each session is $120 plus a $5 materials fee. For more information or to register please contact Extended Studies: Taylor 303; 970-943-2885; or online at www.western.edu/extendedstudies. MONTHLY TOPICS Sessions meet once a month June through October beginning at 9 a.m. and returning between 3 and 5 p.m. for a six hour immersion per session. June 11 Connecting in Nature: Stillness & Noticing Slow down. Tap in. And allow the modern world to fall away. Through silence, stillness and observation, reconnect to the deep resource of Nature. Process what you find there through imaginative visual and written art exercises that allow your senses and the floodgates of creativity to open, exploring complexity within the simple. July 16 Nature as Healer: Finding the Regenerative Creative Resource Identify your personal “Nature as source” through investigating concepts of beauty, solace and appreciation. How does Nature support you? What does it have to teach you? Notice how Nature arrives to relationship with you. Celebrate these sources through art and words that recognize and honor place. Aug 20 Nature & Despair: Accompanying & Transforming Grief Acknowledge the difficulty of despair that is a part of being awake to these turbulent times and destruction of the environment. Explore how to creatively honor the wisdom of grief that can propel the hero’s and heroine’s journey forward towards empowerment and positive action. Learn how to process and express these raw emotions through land + art sculpture projects and powerful yet organized writing. Sept 10 Creative Voice in Nature: Activating Your Expression Explore how Nature can intersect with and support your creative vision. Ponder the concept of expression, how it moves through you and what you feel compelled to express while in collaboration with the natural world. What do you want to say about your relationship to Nature? Your joy or despair in it? How do you take these concepts and translate them? Oct 1 Creativity & Nature Activism: Inspiration, Approaches and Actions Investigate historical and contemporary approaches for creatively engaged activism within the visual and written arts. Experiment with expressing your creative vision that incorporates your connection to Nature and playful activism as a way to shift culture towards a more compassionate, sustainable relationship with the Earth. Oct 6 Expressions: An Open Air Art Show Participants who choose have the opportunity to display their visual and written expressions developed throughout the sessions in an outdoor public art gallery in an easily accessed wilderness location. During Expressions: An Open Air Art Show the community may wander amongst the projects inciting discussion with the artist participants and each other. Regenerations is conducted in partnership with Western State Colorado University and Coldharbour Institute.
Date and Time
Friday Oct 6, 2017
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MDT
Friday, October 6. 5 - 7 p.m.
Location
Backcountry of Crested Butte
Fees/Admission
Free
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Contact Information
970-444-2218.
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