Daniel Mack

Rustic Furnishings

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