Arts and Illness weekly meetings
Meets at times most convenient for those interested
at Dan's well-stocked Warwick studio. Cost is $20/hr
All of us are artists and all of us experience illness.
For several years, Dan Mack has been developing workshops in
“the language of healing by making.". He has taught in hospitals, retreat centers and many different school and workshop settings.
In this weekly drop-in workshop, he shares the many techniques he has developed as he guides you through different exercises. This workshop is good for artists who have come to suspect that the act of making may be more important than what’s made and that making in the company of others enriches all involved. We make two and three dimensional objects linked to the well-being of ourselves, others and the earth.
Dan's Studio is really a laboratory... a mix of the technical, the spiritual and the intuitive. It is a protected place where people can be, rest and begin to discover ways of expressing themselves with materials and tools.
"Matter is Spirit moving slowly enough to be seen."
Jesuit mystic Teilhard de Chardin
What Happens in this Workshop or Laboratory?
We learn to use new tools and try new techniques of making and self expression
We get to share what we know with others.
We make work around various themes that seem attractive, such as:
Joining and Binding
Altars and Shrines
Boxes and Bowls
Leather, Fur, Rawhide
Vexing Memories
Webs, Nets and Matrixes
wounds and bandages
keys and locks
adding and subtracting
lead and gold
charcoal
coins and stamps
hunting and fishing
Eating, Cooking
small and smaller; Homeopathic
precious and common
staffs, wands and dorjes
bones and teeth
nests, roots, branches
aromas and colors
magnetism
mirrors
frames
clothing
The Dollar Store
Water, Air, Earth and Fire
Masks
Eyes and seeing
Visiting Thin Places
Scratching, incising, carving
mark-making
Finding
Gifting