From my June 2022 artist residency with Venezia Contemporanea in Venice, Italy, I offered an international Spontaneous Creation Making session.
Participants from the farthest corners of North America all the way to Italy participated.
Early June 2022, our group of Chicagoland artist-healers offered an "With(In) Nature" Artist Retreat to the past/current artists of the Going Dutch Festival, run by Side Street Studio Arts.
We led a morning of creative rituals and healing workshops with three workshops, focused on breath work, movement exploration, and spontaneous creation.
We chose SpringBird Cottage for our workshop site, as this is where we all first met each in 2021, as facilitated by Erin Rehberg and the 2021 Going Dutch Festival.
This Artist Retreat focused on land stewardship and connecting with the lands of SpringBird.
SPONTANEOUS CREATION IS BACK!
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 Spontaneous Creation Making Program
Creativity Will Set Us Free
Join artist, researcher, and teacher Hallie Morrison over Zoom for meditation, communal connection, and personal time to spontaneously create, in your own home.
No experience required. Age 16+ welcome. RSVP via the Contact page.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88491729048
No experience required. Age 16+ welcome. RSVP via the Contact page.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88491729048
These workshops encourage community engagement and meaningful connection for a growing international group, and creators can share their creations at the end of each session and allow others to respond. This arts and restoration practice has been developed by Studio M*, a collaborative research creation lab intersecting arts, culture and healing: https://studiom.space/about/
"Art inspires and informs as we gather and dwell [in] art as a practice of 'wit(h)nessing' that can lead to deepened understandings of creative calls to action in the current crisis of our world today (Studio M*)."
These workshops are supported by Side Street Studio Arts, of Elgin, IL, USA.
Proud creators at the Fall kick-off session, 10/18/21.
CREATE WITH(IN) NATURE
Spontaneous Creation Making met in-person for the first time! My usual workshops/gatherings focus on "Spontaneous Creation Making" and have always been entirely virtual. At SpringBird in West Dundee, IL, I had the honor of leading a local group of seven through the SCM practice, using natural materials. We focused on land stewardship and I asked the group to create gifts to Nature, through co-inquiry, discussion, meditation, and spontaneous creation.
As taught to me by my Studio M* mentors, the SCM practice has evolved through communal co-inquiry directly resulting from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Barbara Bickel, Ph.D. and R. Michael Fisher, Ph.D. sought to facilitate communal tools for collective support/ healing during the beyond-frightening times of lockdown--and the practice grew to be so meaningful and healing for all involved, that I've been driven to continue offering the practice as a workshop series throughout 2022.
Winter 2020 - Spring 2021 Spontaneous Creation Program
CREATIVITY WILL SET YOU FREE.
Join teaching artist Hallie Morrison and Side Street every other Sunday for FREE, virtual
"Spontaneous Creation Making" workshops over Zoom.
Each 1.5-2 hour session includes a communal practice of short meditation, journaling, and time to create something in any medium in your own space. These workshops foster community engagement, and creators can share their creations at the end of each session and allow others to consciously respond. This practice has been developed by Studio M*, a collaborative research creation lab intersecting arts, culture and healing: https://studiom.space/about/
"Art inspires and informs as we gather and dwell [in] art as a practice of 'wit(h)nessing' that can lead to deepened understandings of creative calls to action in the current crisis of our world today (Studio M*)."
Age 16+ welcome! No experience required. Come to all or one "happening."
These workshops are supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
For more information visit: Spontaneous Creation Workshop Series.
Spontaneous collage by Sue Raven
