VOCARE: DEEPENING CREATIVE VOICE

Materials Included.

Registration Deadline: April 10, 2018

COURSE DESCRIPTION

If you are wanting to focus your art practice, find your next project, or get more deeply connected to your more-true artistic voice, this workshop is for you.

“Vocare” is the latin word meaning “to call”. Art, poetry, music and movement are all ways of listening to and expressing the “call” that arises from a deeper truth and that reveals life to itself. This retreat is designed to put you in touch with the “call” that wants to come through you and your art.

You are an emerging or professional artist ready for your art to come from a more uniquely-you place. You are comfortable in your medium. This workshop is not for those looking for instruction in art technique. In this retreat, you will bring your own supplies and set up your mini-art-studio for the week in Sunbury Shores’ multi-purpose art studio. We will engage in practices for listening for and expressing your own art voice — guided meditation, movement, nature rambles, and a unique “poetry-dive experience” – an immersion in music and spoken poems designed to loosen up the constriction of your creative channel.

Recommended pre-work:

· select three of your recent works to bring that represent a “thread” that you’ve been following in your practice.

· bring a few sources of art inspiration for you — textures, colours, writings, others artists’ work.

Workshop Flow:

Please plan on participating for the full time.

Each day will include:

· a few hours of studio time

· several hours of guided experiences with music, poetry, movement and nature

· some sharing time with others.

Workshop Flow: Each workshop is customized to the participants. A typical flow includes:

· On day one, you’ll be “beholding”: taking in your own and others’ work with fresh eyes — letting it impress you and move you — connecting with sources of inspiration, and then moving that into your studio time.

· On days two and three, you will be opening, opening, opening. Poetry diving will take you into the land of creative leaps; silent nature walks will open you to the quiet whispers, movement to music will jostle and shake loose the usual constrictions held in the body that tighten the creative flow. Daily silent studio time will be an opportunity to play and be affected by what comes forth.

· Day four will be a crystallization of what is taking form through you, and an opportunity to share with your fellow artists and practice articulating what you are taking away. You will go back to your own studio with a set of practices to stay attuned to your own “Vocare”.

Take aways:

– Deepening of your artist voice

– Personal practices for staying true to your voice

– Sketches, maquettes and smaller pieces you’ve done to seed your evolution as an artist

Materials:

Students: bring your own favourite and experimental materials (must be non-toxic) and substrates, journal and pens/pencils, sitting device (back jack or meditation cushion/bench) if feasible, water bottle, hiking shoes with socks and long pants, wet weather outer wear

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Anne Wright is an abstract expressionist artist (annewrightartist.com) working primarily in encaustic beeswax and mixed media. She is also a master-level Integral Coach and facilitator and was a senior teacher with Integral Coaching Canada for 8 years. As a coach, she has supported the evolution of countless leaders and communities (change-artistry.com). Her coaching and art work are often inspired by modern and classical mystical poets (Bass, Oliver, Howe, Zwicky, Whyte, Kinnell, Rilke, Heaney, Lawrence, Rumi). She is a senior student of spiritual guide, Kim Rosen (Saved by a Poem), which supports both her art and coaching. In June 2017, Anne was one of five artists chosen for St. Andrews’ Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts (KIRA). Her art has been exhibited at Kingsbrae Gardens, St. Andrews, Muse Gallery, Toronto and Ottawa Art Gallery as well as at her home studio in Ottawa. Anne’s greatest joy is rambling through a day with her grandkids, Elliot and Lydia, and her grand-dog Dexter.