2017 Woodlanders Gathering
Self, Community, Nature Schedule
at Dan Mack's Studio, 14 Welling Ave, Warwick, NY
and the adjacent 3 Pines Nature Place
July 28 and 29, 10am to 4pm
July 30, 10am Closing at Rich Pillar's Forest
during the Warwick Summer Arts Festival
**** There are Evening Events both Nights ****
AREAS to EXPLORE in Dan's Open Studio
Lightly Guided Encounters with chance, coincidence, accident and Unconscious Intelligence through fire, water, earth
air; talking, eating together, finding and making things. MORE Bring things to swap, share, shed..some work samples to show
DIVINATION Scrying and Kapnomancy
Native Plant Divination with David Hughes
DERIVE Wandering, Noting What’s Here? Now? Select one thing to put on a block
INTUITIVE CARVING: Stones and Bark
THE MATRIX Community Tree Loom
LOOSE PARTS mache, flooring, CD cases, [paint chip samples, laminate samples, extra tiles
MARKING Collage on Cards, Caps, Accordion Books, Masks with flowers, berries, dirt, charcoal, inks, flame, rust, stone pigments, thumbprints, home-made brushes. We did a Divination Deck
JOINING natural and found materials using barks, yarn, wire, string, thread, floss (used and new)
COMING : Dave Wiener, Ginger Schmidt, Andrea Colman, Lizzie Colman, Cynthia Fletcher, Rich Pillar, Dan Mack, Nancy Krim, Trudy Moses, Laurie Seeman, Jim and Mary Caufield, David Hughes, Jen Rydell, Ali Davis. Some have since taken on their Surreal Names: Amaranth M. Truly, Feathery Clinch, Corsula Eldan Mann and Limna DeKac