Northwind Art Creative Work/Playtime Open Studio - at Fort - SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1:00PM - 5:00PM PDT

Creative Work/Playtime Open Studio

SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1:00PM - 5:00PM PDT

Regular price

LEVEL: All - Beginner to Advanced/Professional
AGE GROUP: Adult (ages 18+) or supervised younger kids
LOCATION: Building 324C, Fort Worden, Port Townsend. 

DESCRIPTION   Do creative stuff and celebrate spring! Join host Glo Lamson in this nurturing and fun open studio. Mess around with provided collage materials or bring whatever supplies you want to play/work with. Come with an idea of something you want to do or make, or let the moment and the community environment inspire you! You never know what might show up until you give yourself time and space to explore.

SUPPLY INFORMATION
Collage materials will be provided, or bring any of your own materials that you want to work with!

• Northwind Art School is equipped with most common supplies for you to use including brushes, water containers, pencils, palettes, scrap paper etc.

FREE and suggested donation $20+ at the door or at checkout online via the "add donation” function at Northwind Art website, all funds raised will go toward the Northwind Art scholarship fund!  And anything you give is appreciated!

Come for the entire time or pop in & out as you wish. Or just stop by to say hello! 

Don's Pharmacy offer Northwind Art School students a 10% discount on art supplies. (If you sign up thru Northwind’s website)

ABOUT GLO  Aka Gloria Lamson is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been central in her life for more than 50 years. During that time, she has a history of making jewelry, doing photography, creating artist books, abstract paintings, some sculpture, and temporary, site responsive installations and interactions which she documents with photographs. She graduated from Evergreen State College with a specialization in photography. Years later she earned an MFA in Arts and Consciousness from JFK University.

 Her work has been shown at the art museums of Bellevue, Tacoma, and Oakland as well as in many galleries. She has done numerous public temporary site responsive installations in studios, galleries, store fronts, art parks, and in the natural environments of Alaska, California, Washington, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Her creative work has been an important stimulus for connection, growth and healing in her life. She hopes to share, support, and facilitate conscious creativity in others so they may know these gifts also. It is her belief that working creatively in this way can help us become more authentic, enabling us feel more deeply connected to ourselves and others. Also that it can help us experience greater peace within ourselves, which enables us to bring a more peaceful presence to the world we share. 

 Blog: https://glorialamson.blogspot.com/  , Instagram @glolamson  , Website under construction -  GloriaLamson.com

Images from Jan. 6, Northwind Art Open Working Studio - another Open Studio at the Fort - March 31 (1-5 pm)

Photos from the Jan.6 evening.

I believe a good time was had by all :-)  

Open Creative Working Studio Offering --Jan. 6 - 4pm-8 at Fort Worden

 

Inside - Outside. Photographic Multiples

Much of my artwork comes from my intention to weave together the worlds within me with the worlds around me.  It offers me a way of reconcile inner and outer reality.  These are some recently created 'multiples' which move in that vein, combining several photographs to create new images.

I am in the midst of creating a new website....but some other multiples can be seen in this blog  June 12, 2021 

The Land Sees

Liminal Zone Descent

Line Dance

Between Rock and Hard Place

Open Creative Working Studio

Within & Between ~ Work in Progress

 ~ Reflections from the weaving of my art & life ~

It's been ages since I've posted anything online and I don't imagine I'm alone in being sick of so much computer time/work.  However, if you want to see what I've been reflecting on, here is a link to a google presentation of work in progress.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ub9LRekCcPMwvbfmTOrTHW2KISa8_bLhcLqYLudiGRY/edit?usp=sharing

 Art as a Way…

 

HOMECOMING, a Yoga + Creativity Retreat Spring Equinox Weekend 2022

 1:00 pm  Friday, March 18, to 12:00 pm  Sunday, March 20   

At Madrona MindBody Institute.  Fort Worden, Port Townsend, WA 

https://madronamindbody.com/all-events/homecoming-a-yoga-creativity-retreat

This spring come home to yourself with “HOMECOMING,” a Yoga + Creativity Retreat that invites you to be playful, curious and tune into your inner voice.

Five yoga and movement classes, suitable for all levels, will be led by Yoga Therapist Renee Klein, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT.

Throughout the weekend you’ll be working with your own copy of Deborah Milton’s beautifully illustrated workbook, “Journal Home,” in which you can write, draw, color and collage, for wherever your creativity leads you. Let yourself be surprised and inspired as you explore your interior landscape, discovering new insights. Practice following your voice of intuition, allowing the unknown to emerge while you wonder, wander and respond. Your newfound sense of being home within yourself will let you emerge beautifully into the light of spring!

Artist and creative guide Glo Lamson will help facilitate your process and the creation of a group mandala or collage, perhaps inspired by our collective creative thoughts as well as items collected from the natural world around us at beautiful Fort Worden State Park.

This retreat is open to a maximum of 16 fully vaccinated participants and held in Madrona’s 2,200-square-foot ballroom that allows for ample space and health. To ensure additional safety and reassurance, we will provide all participants with a non-invasive rapid Covid test (at our cost) at Madrona immediately prior to the workshop.

COST:

Residential Retreat fee:

Two night’s private room lodging at one of Fort Worden State Park’s accommodations, two breakfasts, one dinner, one lunch and your Journal Home workbook, $485.

98368 Local Residential Retreat fee:

(includes all of the above but no lodging or breakfasts) $240.

Register by January 15 for a 5% discount.

For more info and registration go to:

https://madronamindbody.com/all-events/homecoming-a-yoga-creativity-retreat


   Renee Klein

After years of ballet, fitness and other forms of movement, Renee discovered the life-changing practice of yoga.

She invites you to explore this magnificent practice where bodies, minds, hearts and spirits can be enriched and healed. She teaches in a manner accessible to all—the yoga newcomer and the advanced student.

Renee's initial training was in the therapeutic Viniyoga lineage with Anne Basco. Additional studies have included numerous curriculums with notable yogis such as Gary Kraftsow, Angela Farmer, Richard Miller, and Mikunda Stiles.

Subsequently she earned her Yoga Therapist credentials (E-RYT 500) through Ananda Seva Mission. She also earned the prestigious yoga credentials of C-IAYT, certified with the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and is a Certified Senior Fitness Instructor through the American Sports & Fitness Association.

She is indebted to all these yogis and organizations, but mostly she is indebted to her students, from whom she continues to learn and grow.

   Glo Lamson

Glo Lamson (aka Gloria) is an interdisciplinary artist, whose creative practice has been central to her life for 50 some years. Her creative work has served as a major source of connection, integration, healing, adventure, and growth in her life.

Moving between nature and psyche, she is interested in bringing the inside out, and the outside in, seeking to invoke wakefulness and renewed connection to the worlds within and around us.

Through the years she has taught, mentored, and coached people in realizing their own unique creativity to nurture their lives. Lamson has an MFA in Arts and Consciousness from JFK University. She is committed to helping others experience their creativity as a connective, healing force.

Photographs in Small Expressions Exhibit at Northwind Art - Jan. 30, 2022

  Two of my photographs (below) were chosen for the current Small Expressions Show.

 

https://www.northwindart.org/news/northwind-art-celebrates-20-years-of-small-expressions
    Northwind Art is celebrating the 20th year of Small Expressions 20, a juried exhibit of small format artworks from regional artists executed within the last three years—but with a few twists. Juror Jaleesa Johnston has been invited to jury all art entries in person, on-site, rather than online, making for a much more immediate experience. Small Expressions is at Jeanette Best Gallery, 701 Water Street, open Thursday-Monday, noon-5 pm and runs from Dec. 2, 2021-Jan. 30, 2022.
    While the artworks may be small in size, measuring no more than 16 inches in any direction, they are expansive in variety, style, and medium. In an exciting twist, for this exhibit, artwork that sells may be taken away during the run of the show, which will provide a dynamic element to the changing installation.

Magic Happens

Lifting Off     

  

Encaustic photograph of white glove bird  (sold)

Art show & activities with Dying Matters Guild. Nov. 20-21, 2021

 I showed several photographs and offered a 'Story Drawer' for the silent auction 

at the special event put on Dying Matters Guild & Strait Up Magazine at the

 Cotton Building in Port Townsend.  The poster for the event is below.  

Included in the event were an art show, a community altar (in which offerings were encouraged), a Death Cafe (a facilitated conversation related to thoughts around death & dying), a silent auction, meditation, resources and readings from the upcoming issue of the local Strait Up magazine.   

For more details checkout   http://www.dyingmattersguild.com, the sponsoring organization.

A couple of my photographs in the show were

The Question

Negotiating

Dear One

Photographic Multiples

Lately I've been returning to my roots in photography.  Weaving between past and present images in my archive of photographs to make new creations.  This current interest began with the recent 'Story Drawers' or, actually a long time ago...like with the image I created for the cover of the 'And/Or' magazine, for the then And/Or Gallery in Seattle, Washington.

2021 multiples  include these below

SPRING RENEWAL: Yoga + Creativity with Renee Klein & Glo Lamson

  Friday, March 19, 2021 6:00 pm through Sunday, March 21, 2021 11:00 am

**you can double click one of the pages below and it will open up both pages and the writing becomes sharper and more clear.  

 Meet for 8 Hours over 3 days.

 For more information and registration:

 https://madronamindbody.com/new-events/spring-renewal-2021  

*** Use LINK BELOW for more information and registration   https://madronamindbody.com/new-events/spring-renewal-2021 

"Story Drawers" included in Contemporary Photography Exhibit at Grover Gallery, Port Townsend, WA

                                                                                                               'Dear One'

                           

                                                                                'Play time'

‘Story Drawer’ Statement

With ‘Story Drawers’ I explore creating ‘mini-installations’ which I make in my studio, which allows me a more self-sustaining creative process. As I had several old drawers on my work bench, they became obvious containers in which to grow this new work. ‘Story Drawers’ excites me to re-contextualize past images in new ways.

‘Dear One’ began growing in my mind 10 years ago when I found this buck lying in my back yard. He looked so alive…but he wasn’t. His presence spoke to me of mysteries, of life, death and everything between. I felt compelled to photograph a human relationship with him. I kept his horns wanting to do something special with them, to honor him and life itself. His was my first story drawer which I think of as a kind of altar.

‘Play-Time’ grew out of a photograph from a group of images entitled ‘Landing Language’. In this series I spelled out words on the ground with white cotton gloves, the kind used to handle precious objects. I photographed them as a part of their surrounding environment. Wanting to explore the idea of ‘playing around’ in my studio, I began with the word ‘play’ then followed the lead of various definitions of the word.

Contemporary Photography Exhibit 

This juried exhibit features 42 fine art photographs covering street, nature, portrait and abstract themes from participants in the popular long-running “Print Night” community of photographers. Includes work by

The monthly “Print Night” event was established by Port Townsend School of the Arts faculty Rick York in collaboration with photographer Chuck Moses in 2018 and has remained an enduring collaborative art group even as pandemic restrictions necessitated the move to a virtual setting. The group meets regularly to share work, discuss photography history, current trends and enjoy the community of fellow professional and aspiring photographers.

Watch the virtual tour - https://youtu.be/4FGlAjHbQBM

Participating Photographers:  Ginny Banks, Betsy Carlson, Jeff Eichen, Kathy Fridstein, Brian Goodman, Allan Jones, Jon Kaplan, Johanna King, Kate Kinney, Gloria Lamson, Allegra McFarland, Mitchel Osborn, Nels Peterson, Lynn Sorensen, Kerry Tremain, Joe Tysl, and Rick York.

     December 31–March 1, 2021 

Grover Gallery, 237 Taylor Street, Port Townsend. 

    Gallery hours are Thursday-Sunday 12-5

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***   https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/01/18/art-gallery-little-free-library/     Excited by this article and want to spread the idea  :-)  kinda like a story drawer!