Weaving Women's Lives: Encounters in Cloth

Saturday, April 26
10 am - 4 pm (1 hour break for lunch)
$100 ($90 Jung Center members)
A boxed lunch is included with the registration fee.

Explore textile mythology and discover how textiles express a symbolic language between hand, heart, and spirit. In this workshop, through both slide lecture and hands on creative projects that invite reflection, participants will find their own connection to this rich heritage.

Women weave their life stories in the cloth they create, dye, knit, stitch and quilt. Historically, across cultures, a woman's character, creativity, age, status, and power was once communicated in the cloth she made. It was an unspoken visual language tying together physical and spiritual realities. Cloth weaves together ancestry, blessings, healing, strength, and protection of the soul as we live the tapestry of our lives.

In this workshop, we will contemplate the spiritual thread of creation innate in all of us, sewing meaning into our life's journey. No artistic experience required. We will use non-traditional mixed media and art materials to express our own stories. Please contact The Jung Center for a list of basic supplies.

Donna Durbin, MFA, is a professional fiber artist, speaker, and teacher. Studying the "call of cloth" as her art medium for twenty years, she discovered a valuable woman's history of spiritual roots and feminine wisdom. Her art installation "Lifting the Veil: Love and Marriage" received a 2003 CACHH grant. Donna received her MFA in Fibers from TWU in 1991 and continues to exhibit and create artwork for public, corporate, and private collections.

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