Posts Tagged ‘creativity’
Your Springtime Creative Muse
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard This weekend, I wandered throughout my neighborhood, slowing way, way down to see my familiar environment through a different lens, traveling in my own backyard. As spring begins to…
Read MoreSpring Oncology Art and Healing Workshop
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. This spring, stretch into your mind-body-soul connection and join us for our spring oncology art and healing workshop. Finding the Quiet in the Roar: Creating Sanctuary Thursdays, March 14, 21 & 28 and April 4, 11, 18 & 25 11:30am – 1:30pm Our physical world…
Read MoreWordless Wednesdays – Mandala in El Espinal
In El Espinal, Oaxaca, Mexico, nature inspired this mandala of curled sepals, vivid pink tufts, creamy white flowers, stones and seeds. If this were your mandala, what would you title it? Share your ideas below.
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Grant Awarded to Healing Icons Traveling Art Exhibitions
Our staff worked very hard on our proposal for the South Carolina Artists’ Ventures Initiative Grant, which is offered by the wonderfully terrific state agency The South Carolina Arts Commission. Our efforts were rewarded! Healing Icons received a grant of $5,000 to fund our traveling art exhibition project, collectively titled Sometimes Words Art Not Enough. S.C. Artists’…
Read MoreFinding Our Inner Phosphorescence: Creative Insights
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus The more often we share our inner journeys with others, the more we find a commonality in what it is to be human. We at Healing Icons…
Read MoreBecome a Collector of Words, A Creator of Images…
Last Saturday, participants came from Atlanta, Charleston, Hartsville and Columbia to the Columbia Museum of Art to pause from the hectic pace of life and delve into the creative process. They came in search of inner phosphorescence, that luminescent energy that enlivens and inspires the direction of our lives. The catalyst for this workshop was the exhibition…
Read MoreFinding Your Inner Phosphorescence
Last month, I had an unintentional retrospective exhibition at Benedict College that included works from over a 20-year period— unintentional in that I thought the exhibition was scheduled for 2011, not 2010, so I had to scurry around to gather up enough work for a cohesive show, adding in older work I hadn’t planned on…
Read MoreWelcome to the Healing Icons Blog
Welcome! This blog will highlight the ongoing and upcoming projects of Healing Icons as well as provide a space for thoughts, prompts and insights into living with cancer, grief and the transformative, healing power of art. Community is a powerful force. By communing with others who are dealing with the same challenges and fears, by learning…
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