Description
What happens when we pause to pay closer attention to our relationships with the earth and each other? This three-day workshop offers meditative entrances into these sacred connections through guided exercises in experimental sound, writing, somatic engagement, and making ceremonial objects with beeswax and cloth. Join visual artist Zoë Cohen and poet Donna Henderson for a deep dive into the present. Together we will tap into the power of drone sounds, humming, beehives, water, words, cento poetry, and beeswax as we collectively invite the earth to heal us.
About the Instructor
Zoë Cohen is a contemporary abstract artist and educator working with paper and paint, ink, collage, beeswax, words and worn garments to address loss and repair in the 21st century. Born in Chicago, Cohen has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1980. She holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago and a BFA in ceramics, with honors, from University of Oregon. She has exhibited in Albuquerque, Portland, Chicago, Connecticut, San Francisco and Seattle, including an exhibit juried by art critic and curator, Lucy Lippard. Her work is held in private collections in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle,
Atlanta, and NY. She has been teaching workshops throughout the Pacific Northwest since 2015. Her students continue to amaze and inspire.
Learn more www.zcohenstudio.com
Poet and artist Donna Henderson is the author of four collections of poems. She is particularly interested in forms and practices of collage in art and in poetry, and her passion for artistic collaboration engages her regularly in co-creating works with other artists, musicians, and writers. In 2007, Donna and three other poets co-founded Oregon’s Airlie Press, a shared-work collective which continues to publish beautiful books of poetry in close collaboration with the poets themselves.
Learn More
donnacatehenderson.com
Materials List
You will need to bring:
Provided by instructors:
Beeswax
Extra fabric