I'm delighted to share (with permission of my students) the results of the two 4 day residential Intensive Workshops I taught at my Studio-Enclave in Tucson, Arizona the past two weeks. The first class was a "Reunion" class, and it was wonderful to have students from last year's Workshop return to make more masks, and to enlarge their vision, with new masks, and new stories about the masks.
The second class was equally as prolific, both in the work they produced and what the visioning revealed individually and for the group through the process of the masks. I'm delighted indeed, and intend to offer the same classes again next year. Bravo to the Mask artists of this year!
“We give our mythic side scant attention these days and so a great deal escapes us and we no longer understand our own actions. In most cultures, theatre and dance are considered holy rituals, but in the United States, these arts have become strangely secular.”
Leslie Saxon West, Choreographer, METAMORPHOSES (The myths of Ovid)
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Masks from the Reunion Class (including my own Spider Woman mask)
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| "Grandmother Moon" by Sue Ellen Parkinson |
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| "Crow Woman" by Ananda |
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"Flora" by Patty West
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| "Mask of Time" by Chaya Kornreich |
“Creativity is the Blue Heron within us waiting to fly;
through her imagination, all things become possible.”
Nadia Janice Brown
