Photos from the Jan.6 evening.
I believe a good time was had by all :-)
Mar 8, 2024
Oct 18, 2023
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
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| The Land Sees |
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| Liminal Zone Descent |
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| Line Dance |
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| Between Rock and Hard Place |
Mar 12, 2023
Dec 4, 2022
Art as a way - Online presentation
~ 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 an online (Venmo) presentation for The Grunewald Guild https://www.grunewaldguild.com/ in Leavenworth of my work in progress - 'Art as a Way" (30 min.) https://vimeo.com/801755531
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| Art as a Way… |
Jan 11, 2022
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
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.
Renee KleinAfter 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 LamsonGlo 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.
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
Jun 12, 2021
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
Jan 22, 2021
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
Jan 14, 2021
"Story Drawers" included in Contemporary Photography Exhibit at Grover Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
‘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
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
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!
Sep 5, 2020
'Ode to the Light Within' - September Public installation, 675 Tyler St., Port Townsend, WA
“Ode to the Light Within”
These luminous figures give visibility to my belief that within each of us there exists a kind of light that encourages us to be our ‘best’ selves. My hope is that this poetic, figurative rendering supports that light within us and encourages us to offer it out to the world through the quality of our interactions. Our thoughts, feelings and acts of kindness can spark compassion, tolerance, equanimity and empathy for ourselves, each other and for the earth.
May we all be well.
Materials used for this installation are clothes dryer, venting hoses and glittery bird, scare tape along with several of my photographs made by scratching into slide film.
I have much gratitude to the North Peninsula Chapter Surface Design Association, https://sda-np.com/ for the opportunity to use their window exhibition space to realize this installation which has been brewing within me for some years.
Creating ‘Ode to the Light Within’ in this space felt a bit like a homecoming for me, reminding me of other installations I created in that window from 2010-2016
http://glorialamson.blogspot.com/2016/04/changes-and-what-if-window.html .
I welcome your thoughts, comments and questions via email, at glolamson at gmail.com
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