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Zentangle Workshop

With Certified Zentangle Teacher

Deb Kopeschny

Wednesday September 22

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

AM Gallery, Milton Mall

Do you have a passion for doodling or just want try tangling?

Zentangle created by Rick and Marie Roberts combines the relaxation of zen and the art of drawing doodles. This recent craze has been sweeping the internet and artists everywhere are creating 3.5” square zentangles all over the world. Come and join us for an evening of learning some basic tangles and relaxation.

Cost: $35 for members, includes Zentangle kit

         $40 for non members, includes Zentangle kit

Contact to sign up: Donna Funnell   dfunnell@sympatico.ca

Minimum: 6 participants

No materials required

www.zentangle.com for more information

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 Please find below the descriptions for October and November workshops. contact Donna Funnell to sign up- or webmaster : jenny@thepandas.ca

GROW!

SANDRA’S OPEN STUDIO

WEDNESDAYS

STARTING APRIL 14, 2010

9:30 AM TO 12:30 PM

Explore the WONDER you felt as a child and find the spontaneous expression and artistic freedom that is your true creative spirit.

Curious collage, free flowing inventiveness, a whimsical use of materials, fearless colour combinations and a wonderful collection of paper ephemera,  wherever the creative muse leads us, we’ll follow.  Each week as we experiment with a new technique:  we’ll print, layer, stitch, paint, embellish, distress and reinvent until we are fully immersed.  Wherever you are in your artistic journey, the Studio doors are open and I invite you to come in and play.

ONLY $20 PER SESSION

CLASSES INCLUDE MATERIALS

REGISTER TODAY

CONTACT SANDRA SPAGNUOLO

905-854-5624

 OR spagnuolo@xplornet.com

Sybil Rampen

Sandra Spagnuolo-VP

                                                           Nan Gent-Trip coordinator

We loved our time with Sybil Rampen at Joshua Creek Heritage Centre.

We used the printing press and experimented with water colour printing. We all produced masterpieces!

We explored the wonderful gallery and were totally inspired to create more another day.

Attendees must register 5 days prior to workshop date. Phone commitments will be charged to FASM members whether attended or not as space and artists must be confirmed prior to workshop date. Non-members must pay 5 days prior to class. Full refund on cancelled classes if insufficient attendees. Limit of 14 per class. PLEASE BRING YOUR LUNCH.

REGISTRATION:  MONA CORBY phone 905-689-1976 email: don.corby@sympatico.ca
Please make cheques payable to FASM and send to:
FASM c/o Mona Corby 26 Carlisle Rd, RR #1 Freelton ON L0R 1K0
FASM MEMBER $45, NON-MEMBER $55

SIGNING UP FOR A FASM COURSE…

Attendees must register 5 days prior to workshop date. Phone commitments will be charged to FASM members whether attended or not as space and artists must be confirmed prior to workshop date. Non-members must pay 5 days prior to class. Full refund on cancelled classes if insufficient attendees. Limit of 14 per class. PLEASE BRING YOUR LUNCH.

REGISTRATION:  MONA CORBY phone 905-689-1976 email: don.corby@sympatico.ca
Please make cheques payable to FASM and send to:
FASM c/o Mona Corby 26 Carlisle Rd, RR #1 Freelton ON L0R 1K0
FASM MEMBER $45, NON-MEMBER $55

All workshops will be held at:
Grace Anglican Church, 317 Main Street Milton, unless otherwise notified

SYMBOLS & IMAGERY
HEALING THROUGH ART THERAPY ”Getting Rid of the Block”

Saturday, November 22nd. 9:30 am to 3:30 pm.
DARLA FISHER-ODJIG

Canadian Native Fine Artist, Art Therapist, D.T.A.T.I, Mental Health Therapist
http://fisherodjigstudio.spaces.live.com/http://fisherodjigstudio.spaces.live.com/

What is Art Therapy?

Clinical Rationale

Art Therapy is a form of psychotherapeutic processing with the emphasis on spontaneous symbolic representation. This encompasses the use of both verbal and nonverbal communication (simple art materials-paints, pastels, markers etc.) to facilitate assessment and therapeutic connectedness of a holistic nature re: mind, heart, body and spirit of the individual.
Extraction

The bright vibrant colors represent a need for recognition, validation. The repetitiveness of the hand imaging  may suggest that by repeating the emotional experience (trauma related) the issue may be altered or changed. The red signifies the anger emanating within. Also the yellow is reflective of the hope and calmness existing dually as a coping mechanism. The affect brought forth regarding the black was indicative of the power within and central to the trauma itself, the positioning of it represented that it was safely tucked and nurtured by the anger (red). Protected and screened by all other emotions within. By extracting these images the client was able to process through issues that were draining energy and blocking the individuals creative sense. Spontaneous imaging allowed restrictive movement otherwise bound to a sense of release without judgment or need for perfection and restraint.

Benefits

Art is an alternative therapy through imaging and spontaneity giving psychological release as awareness; acknowledgment and acceptance warrant a vision into managing what is processed regarding psychological blocks (barriers). This safe environment and holding place becomes a vessel in which the individual can express his or her issues by non-verbal means. It is believe that “art therapy represents unconscious hereditary factors of primordial origin,” past forced character mapping that through the art and its symbolic imagery allows for a phenomenon to occur.  This lends to a less intrusive experience and much safer tool for engaging and experiencing issues that may be blocking an artist’s creative light. It is an epiphany of phenomenon, enhancing the individuals’ connectedness within themselves thus enabling healthy external acceptance of environmental factors and a healthier interaction with others. (Getting out of the way of yourself).

Art and symbols also have been a means of communication by the Aboriginal people through rock paintings, through mother earth, through ceremony. Their connection with the earth by way of mind, heart (emotion), body and spirit is important and this is relayed through symbols and art. The pictographs are but one way that the history was preserved etched into the walls of a rock, buried in the belly of mother earth, protected and preserved and kept safe. Part of “Creative Intellect” is guiding and teaching creativity from birth to elder. This is done through storytelling and paintings. These are all part of imaging-imagining, being creative and allowing what is in our hearts and our minds onto paper.
Longfellow was deeply interested in pictography, and gave the best and briefest description of nine symbols that has ever been compiled.  It is given in the following verse from Hiawatha,

“For the earth he drew a straight line,
For the sky a bow above it;
White the space between for day-time,
Filled with little stars for night-time;
On the left a point for sunrise,
On the right a point for sunset,
On the top a point for noontide,
And for rain and cloudy weather
Waving lines descending from it.”
William Tomkins

http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/native/sign/pictographs.htm

D. Fisher Odjig finished her formal education in Art Therapy at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute in 2003. Her internship consisted of counseling children, adolescence and adult individuals through symbolic imaging which included a 1500 hour practicum. The symbolic imaging proved successful between not only children but also adults as this modality promotes an alternative to verbal therapy and emphasizes creative abstraction toword stimulating the mind and its need for creative thought process. D. Fisher Odjigs’ work consists of one on one counseling, child and parent and group facilitation regarding behavioral problems and identity issues in both. Boundary setting, behavioral modification and self esteem issues are part of the art therapy process