Sacred Shapes: The Geometry of Women

(This is my beautiful pregnant subject Ewa as Kupula, Polish Goddess of medicinal plants...photo by me.)

I am offering pregnancy, mother and baby and multi-generational family portraits for our May is Mother's Month show...all photo sessions will have one photo chosen to be on display for the show May 19th. Celebrate your pregnancy with a portrait of you and your baby or honor your grandparent/s with a family portrait!



Sacred Shapes: The Geometry of Women
@ Danton Studio: Center for Art Making and Well Being
May 2013
Friday May 3rd reception 7pm – Images of Women, Children and Families
May 10th, 11th, 17th, & 18th birth panel/circle, workshops and classes
Sunday May 19th 4-7pm reception of all artwork from classes & ‘award’ ceremony for mentors

*Celebrate Motherhood, Families, and Mentors with Art Classes all Through May*

"Sacred Shapes: The Geometry of Women”
A month celebrating mothers, families and mentors with classes and workshops. The show highlights the empowerment of a sacred birth and the initiation of motherhood. The show celebrates the men and women who have inspired us as mentors, teachers and adoptive parents. It chronicles with portraits for pregnant, new moms and families offered to the public. Sacred Shapes creates an environment to tell stories, from the Flowering Shapes of Motherhood tree, to the Shrine of Mentors. From pregnancy portraits to the Your Body is Your Temple hanging mobiles. Sacred Shapes seeks to show the perfection of organic femininity and how we fit into the cycles of life. The Geometry of Women shows women’s relationships to their families and their communities, as well as woman in relationship to self.

Friday May 3rd
Reception –Images of women, children and families – with signup sheets for upcoming classes

Friday May 10th
Women’s Night Out – It Takes a Village Women’s Circle - teas & tonics - Birth Panel – doula and midwife panel discussion on birth and women’s health, acupuncture for women's health, Rory Eames on pregnancy and women’s health, Katrina’s bellydancing for female health, Colleen Magnus and Paige Riley discuss facilitating the needs of modern teens, raising the children of the village, bullying, and issues facing teens, Pandora Peoples discusses female health from a mind-body perspective. Teachers discuss their upcoming classes.

Saturday May 11th
Your Body is your Temple - Belly/Torso Casting – 10am to 2pm
with deer Sullivan and Paige Riley –
Clay Temple Building with Alexis Katchmar – 10am to 2pm

Writing on Birth – 5 to 8pm
Class taught by Nicola Burnell

Friday May 17th
Baby Yoga with Caroline McClutcheon - 9 to 10am
It Takes a Village - Mentorship Shrine – Thank You to A Mentor Art

Saturday May 18th
Flowering Motherhood – Birth and Rebirth Stories in the form of giant flowers – 10am to 2pm
With Susan Danton and Pandora Peoples

Sunday May 19th
Reception for Student Work and Awards Ceremony 4-7pm
Music from Dinah Mellin


Neato Installations include:
1. Images of Mothers, Children and Families
- accepting submissions, selected works

2.Pregnancy, Mother & Child, & Multigenerational Photo Portraits
– portrait services offered by Pandora Peoples

3. Mentorship Shrine – Plaster of Paris Boat with Wood Collage Shields
– for teachers, mentors, aunts, grandmothers, non-mother mothers
- teacher Cindy Sauers?, plus stories of mentorship relationship. We will take a photo of the shield, to include with the writing, contained within the boat. There will be a nice photo op during the ceremony.

4. Flowering Shapes of Motherhood Tree - Bouquet of Flowers –
Birth and Rebirth Stories – stories of flowering motherhood - flower birth stories workshop taught by Susan Danton & Pandora Peoples
Flowering tree will be mounted in papier mache "vase"

5. Your Body is Your Temple
- Belly Casts with teacher deer Sullivan with Paige Riley
- Clay Temples with teacher Alexis Katchmar…self-hardening clay

6. Spring Nest – Bring the Kids, help create our installation.