First annual Encausticamp art retreat in Oregon!

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Showing posts with label workshops. Show all posts

Thursday, April 7, 2011

EncaustiCamp bloggerama; Crystal Neubauer!

‘When you share your strengths you create competition. When you share your weaknesses you create community.” ~Rick Warren
Recently I have been sharing a dialogue about a dream of developing a series of workshops and retreats where women can go deeper in their creative lives, a place where they will be supported, encouraged, and strengthened in their identity and worth as a woman and come away with the tools they need to begin to trust the voice they hear inside to guide them. A place that feels more like a community of friends who have gathered for a weekend of fun and fellowship then just a series of art-project oriented workshops.

The process of using art as a tool in healing from the past and uncovering my true identity has been such an integral part of changing my life that I’ve begun to share it with other women in some of my art workshops, uncertain of how they would respond or receive it knowing they were expecting to simply learn how to create a specific project. But each time I’ve included something as simple as a breathing technique I learned in my own journey, I find at least one woman who writes to say it was the most important thing she learned that day.

As the dialogue with my artist-women-friends begins to solidify into a clearer vision of a deeper more meaningful art retreat experience and dates and locations begin to be penciled in on our calendars, I’ve wrestled with letting go of my desire to teach at some of the larger more well-established venues, but then an email shows up in my inbox telling me of how the breathing technique I shared became a lifeline during a family crisis and I know in my heart this is the direction I was intended to go.

This July I will have my first formal opportunity during a two-hour breakout session at EncaustiCamp to share what I have learned along the way. I will bring a kit for each student who wishes to participate, that will include collage materials to be used as we walk through exercises designed to release that “inner-self” and allow one to experience what it means to “hear” or “listen to” their own voice and allow it to tell their story. The tools I hope to pass on in this exercise will go beyond paper and glue. This uncovering, discovering and releasing-of-self, is a journey so many women find themselves in the midst of and often without the resources or knowledge of what to do with all of these unexpected feelings and emotions. I will come, not as an expert or teacher, but a fellow sojourner sharing what I have learned along the way.

Of course, encaustic art will be the main focus of EncaustiCamp, but I am excited that the intention is to create an atmosphere that will be safe, cozy, intimate and restorative. This is where art becomes more then just a pretty picture; this is where it becomes a seed through which inner-healing can flow.


Thursday, February 24, 2011

sharing, sharing, sharing!


Have you seen this yet?! Thank you Deryn! www.encausticamp.com
http://somethingsublime.typepad.com/something_sublime_from_th/2011/01/encausticamp-2011.html

Monday, November 8, 2010

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We've just had the great joy of adding Tonia Davenport (www.toniadavenport.typepad.com) to the lineup for EncaustiCamp 2011. She will be joining us as an assistant; this rounds out our need for workshop assistants and I am overjoyed to have her on board! With just one more instructor to confirm, we are well on our way to fully staffed~and with anticipation, I hope to have this element resolved by the end of the month. (see side bar for the full lineup and blog links thus far)
In the meantime, early registration is open through pbsartist@aol.com only. Visit the site (www.encausticamp.com), check out the information as it is so far, and if you know you are in and want to secure your spot, send Patricia an email. You will be able to submit your 'first choice' options for workshops as first in line registers as soon as descriptions and final instructor go live in December. If questions about fees, payment methods or lodging options arise, please inquire so that I can clarify and give you the best I can give!
thank you for joining us. It is going to be big~ in love. trish