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My talks and workshops often explore the strange and beautiful process of discovering, grappling with, healing, and embracing one’s identity. Intense interior journeys often flow beneath our exteriors. My talks and workshops draw us all in to a deeper empathetic experience with our humanity.
Much of my creative facilitation and workshops explore issues related to spiritual identity healing, multicultural identity, generational story excavation, trauma awareness and healing, mental health awareness, and using art therapy to grow through chronic health conditions.
This workshop is a guided creative exercise for participants to embody and reflect on their personal experiences with supplied writing prompts and art materials. By exploring mindful awareness of the heart, breath and body, we will excavate our stories and channel them into new realizations. The workshop concludes with the opportunity for participants to share their creative pieces and insights if they choose.
Materials will be provided, but please feel free to bring your favorite pens, journals or other art making implements. Dress comfortably to sit for periods up to 10-15 minutes and to move gently between creative exercises.
Hosted by the Frick Pittsburgh
This dynamic workshop explored the imagery and symbolism of Chinese porcelain through a new permanent collection installation and through painting a personal piece of decorative art to take home.
Dawn Brean, the Frick’s Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, led participants in a personal tour of the Frick’s Chinese Porcelain installation. Pittsburgh artists Alison Zapata and Sara Tang led a hands-on ceramics painting workshop.
This workshop is a guided creative exercise for participants to chart personal experiences of their choosing in a map format, and then to create an expressive art piece based on their map. Mapping these experiences (which may include chronic illness, childhood, medical, personal, traumatic, positive, developmental, professional, etc.) in a creative medium channels new realizations and ways of understanding one's story.
SIP N’ SKETCH
Sip n' Sketch - providing creative collaboration opportunities for professionals across all mediums.
Sip n’ Sketch, Pittsburgh was dissolved in 2018.
Over 37 gatherings in over 10 public and private businesses, co-working spaces, and homes provided creative community opportunities.
These Pittsburgh gatherings were held weekly, and provided a casual, safe, and inclusive space in which to connect, relax, and create in any medium of choice.
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Sip n' Sketch Pittsburgh
Photographs by Victoria Sterling.