The Artists Project
In the spirit of creating a more intentional partnership with authors and artists and to provide viewers of my Facebook page, the spirit that moves me, with a direct connection with the artists responsible for creating such beauty, I have reached out to women artists whose work deeply inspires me.
The Artists Project will profile artists (visual artists as well as writers/authors) who have been carefully selected for their works related to transition, women’s ways of knowing, feminine authority, feminine mythology, or living a wholehearted life. Please check out my Facebook page to follow the series, and you can review artist bios below.
The Artists Project will profile artists (visual artists as well as writers/authors) who have been carefully selected for their works related to transition, women’s ways of knowing, feminine authority, feminine mythology, or living a wholehearted life. Please check out my Facebook page to follow the series, and you can review artist bios below.
June ~
Lara Veleda Vesta
Lara Veleda Vesta is an artist, storyteller and educator transforming chronic illness into a path of healing and reclaiming. She is the author of The Moon Divas Oracle, illustrator of The Moon Divas Oracle Cards and The Runes Revealed and is currently working on an illuminated manuscript exploring death transitions. She also offers classes by donation at The Wild Soul School, where explorations include folk magic, ancestral connection, self-initiation and ritual practice. To learn more and weave/create: laravesta.co
Lara Veleda Vesta is an artist, storyteller and educator transforming chronic illness into a path of healing and reclaiming. She is the author of The Moon Divas Oracle, illustrator of The Moon Divas Oracle Cards and The Runes Revealed and is currently working on an illuminated manuscript exploring death transitions. She also offers classes by donation at The Wild Soul School, where explorations include folk magic, ancestral connection, self-initiation and ritual practice. To learn more and weave/create: laravesta.co
May ~
Lorena Carrington
Lorena Carrington is a photographic artist and illustrator with an interest in lost and forgotten fairy tales. She exhibits widely and has work in national and international collections. She also runs workshops and give talks on art, illustration, and the relationship between text and image. She grew up in a library and art studio so, after working as a photographer and practicing artist for nearly twenty years, creating books feels like coming home. She recently illustrated Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women, feminist fairy tales retold by Kate Forsyth, and is currently working on the next few books. lorenacarrington.com
Lorena Carrington is a photographic artist and illustrator with an interest in lost and forgotten fairy tales. She exhibits widely and has work in national and international collections. She also runs workshops and give talks on art, illustration, and the relationship between text and image. She grew up in a library and art studio so, after working as a photographer and practicing artist for nearly twenty years, creating books feels like coming home. She recently illustrated Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women, feminist fairy tales retold by Kate Forsyth, and is currently working on the next few books. lorenacarrington.com
February ~
Harriet Lerner
Harriet Lerner, PH.D is one of our nation’s most loved and respected relationship experts. Renowned for her work on the psychology of women and family relationships, she served as a staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic for several decades. A distinguished lecturer, consultant, and psychotherapist, she is the author of numerous scholarly articles and popular books, including the New York Times bestseller The Dance of Anger, which has sold several million copies with 25 foreign translations. Her new book, just out in paperback, is Why Won't You Apologize? Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts. She and her husband live in Lawrence, Kansas and have two grown sons. harrietlerner.com
Harriet Lerner, PH.D is one of our nation’s most loved and respected relationship experts. Renowned for her work on the psychology of women and family relationships, she served as a staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic for several decades. A distinguished lecturer, consultant, and psychotherapist, she is the author of numerous scholarly articles and popular books, including the New York Times bestseller The Dance of Anger, which has sold several million copies with 25 foreign translations. Her new book, just out in paperback, is Why Won't You Apologize? Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts. She and her husband live in Lawrence, Kansas and have two grown sons. harrietlerner.com
Gabrielle Brown
Gabrielle Brown has been painting since she was a young child and in recent years has begun creating wood sculptures. Born in 1994, Brown was raised in the countryside outside of Hampton, New Brunswick Canada. Growing up by the riverside and spending time in nature has always played an important inspirational role in her work. She is fascinated by human nature and utilizes herself as the main subject in each piece. Realistic life experiences of struggle and prosperous moments are the story line in all of her work, narrating both darkness and light. Gabrielle's art is constantly shifting and moving forward both as a theme and as she strives to demonstrate the revival of the human condition. Find her on Facebook or at her website: gabriellebrownart.com
Gabrielle Brown has been painting since she was a young child and in recent years has begun creating wood sculptures. Born in 1994, Brown was raised in the countryside outside of Hampton, New Brunswick Canada. Growing up by the riverside and spending time in nature has always played an important inspirational role in her work. She is fascinated by human nature and utilizes herself as the main subject in each piece. Realistic life experiences of struggle and prosperous moments are the story line in all of her work, narrating both darkness and light. Gabrielle's art is constantly shifting and moving forward both as a theme and as she strives to demonstrate the revival of the human condition. Find her on Facebook or at her website: gabriellebrownart.com
Artists for 2017:
October ~
Pixie Lighthorse
Pixie Lighthorse is the author of the Prayers of Honoring series and Boundaries & Protection. Lighthorse received her training in western shamanism between 2003-2012. She was born in California, growing up among ranches, farms, animals and wildlife. She studied literature and art at Cal State Northridge and several other higher learning institutions. She is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Feminine and earth-centered sensibilities are the cornerstones of her work. She lives on a ranch in Central Oregon with her partner and two children. pixielighthorse.com Instagram: @pixielighthorse
Pixie Lighthorse is the author of the Prayers of Honoring series and Boundaries & Protection. Lighthorse received her training in western shamanism between 2003-2012. She was born in California, growing up among ranches, farms, animals and wildlife. She studied literature and art at Cal State Northridge and several other higher learning institutions. She is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Feminine and earth-centered sensibilities are the cornerstones of her work. She lives on a ranch in Central Oregon with her partner and two children. pixielighthorse.com Instagram: @pixielighthorse
Amara Hollow Bones
Amara Hollow Bones’s creations emerge from an intimacy with the earth; from life in the Great Lakes and the Klamath River -- of wild mountains, rivers, streams, and forests through the seasons, reflecting the quiet magic alive everywhere. They are expressions of love for place, telling stories of return to earth, of the thriving beautiful forests, and the wounded places that no longer exist in the ways they were once known. They are spells, songs, stories and prayers for the forests, wild animals, foods and medicines, the wild ramblings of reconnecting to earth-wisdom; of healing trauma, ancestry, self and community. amarahollowbones.com
Amara Hollow Bones’s creations emerge from an intimacy with the earth; from life in the Great Lakes and the Klamath River -- of wild mountains, rivers, streams, and forests through the seasons, reflecting the quiet magic alive everywhere. They are expressions of love for place, telling stories of return to earth, of the thriving beautiful forests, and the wounded places that no longer exist in the ways they were once known. They are spells, songs, stories and prayers for the forests, wild animals, foods and medicines, the wild ramblings of reconnecting to earth-wisdom; of healing trauma, ancestry, self and community. amarahollowbones.com
Christina Baldwin
Christina Baldwin is a writer, teacher, and seminar presenter of 40+ years experience. She is a pioneering leader who has shaped modern movements in reflective writing, storytelling, and collaborative dialogue. She is the author of eight books including Life’s Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, Storycatcher, Making Sense of our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story, Calling the Circle, and The Circle Way (co-authored with Ann Linnea). peerspirit.com
Christina Baldwin is a writer, teacher, and seminar presenter of 40+ years experience. She is a pioneering leader who has shaped modern movements in reflective writing, storytelling, and collaborative dialogue. She is the author of eight books including Life’s Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, Storycatcher, Making Sense of our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story, Calling the Circle, and The Circle Way (co-authored with Ann Linnea). peerspirit.com
Darby Lahger
Darby Lahger is an American artist and a visual storyteller who resides in Sweden with her family in the forest of Dalarna in an old timber home from the 1700's. Although Lagher is best known for her photography, she explores various mediums and has started a focus on charcoal and graphite drawings. Her drawings are reminiscent of old folklore illustrations and darker aspects of the human condition. Find her on Instagram, Facebook, or at her website here: darbylahger.com.
Darby Lahger is an American artist and a visual storyteller who resides in Sweden with her family in the forest of Dalarna in an old timber home from the 1700's. Although Lagher is best known for her photography, she explores various mediums and has started a focus on charcoal and graphite drawings. Her drawings are reminiscent of old folklore illustrations and darker aspects of the human condition. Find her on Instagram, Facebook, or at her website here: darbylahger.com.
August ~
Natalia Drepina
Natalia Drepina was born November 19, 1989, in Lipetsk, Russia. She is a poet and a photographer who specializes in female portrait photography and emotional self-portraits. On the faces of her subjects, their gestures, and in their eyes, there is a story and Natalia is the author. A self-taught photographer working in Russia, Natalia Drepina is often also the subject of her own work. She takes photographs since 2009. Her style is characterized by the bleakness, fragility and minor mood of the past. nataliadrepina.tumblr.com
Natalia Drepina was born November 19, 1989, in Lipetsk, Russia. She is a poet and a photographer who specializes in female portrait photography and emotional self-portraits. On the faces of her subjects, their gestures, and in their eyes, there is a story and Natalia is the author. A self-taught photographer working in Russia, Natalia Drepina is often also the subject of her own work. She takes photographs since 2009. Her style is characterized by the bleakness, fragility and minor mood of the past. nataliadrepina.tumblr.com
Lucy Pierce
Lucy Pierce is a mother, artist and writer living in the Yarra Valley, Australia. Her work is born of dream and myth, vision and dance, song and circle, motherhood and eroticism, grief and quest. It is seeded in the places within that long for healing and for wholeness, an apprenticeship to the soul, a serenade of love and deep gratitude to that which is sought within her longing. Her art tries to give form to what is on the edge of knowing within her, an offering from the dark shadows, a fumbling for the light, a wooing of the mytho-poetic river that is woven through her being, keening for a truth, yearning towards awakening. lucypierce.com
Lucy Pierce is a mother, artist and writer living in the Yarra Valley, Australia. Her work is born of dream and myth, vision and dance, song and circle, motherhood and eroticism, grief and quest. It is seeded in the places within that long for healing and for wholeness, an apprenticeship to the soul, a serenade of love and deep gratitude to that which is sought within her longing. Her art tries to give form to what is on the edge of knowing within her, an offering from the dark shadows, a fumbling for the light, a wooing of the mytho-poetic river that is woven through her being, keening for a truth, yearning towards awakening. lucypierce.com
Massimilla & Bud Harris
Massimilla Harris, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst with a practice in Asheville, North Carolina for the past 25 years. She holds a doctorate in Psychology and is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She is also an author, teacher, award-winning quilter, and certified Solisten Provider. Developed by Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis, Solisten is a special kind of music therapy that, along with Jungian analysis, enables Dr. Harris to help people bring mind and body together to release their full potentials. budharris.com
Bud Harris, Ph.D., originally became a businessman and successfully owned his own business before returning to school to become a psychotherapist. After earning his Ph.D. in psychology and practicing as a psychotherapist and psychologist, he experienced the call to further his growth and become a Jungian analyst. He then moved to Zürich, Switzerland where he trained for over five years and graduated from the C. G. Jung Institute. He is the author of ten books, lectures widely, and practices as a Jungian analyst in Asheville, North Carolina. budharris.com
Massimilla Harris, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst with a practice in Asheville, North Carolina for the past 25 years. She holds a doctorate in Psychology and is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She is also an author, teacher, award-winning quilter, and certified Solisten Provider. Developed by Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis, Solisten is a special kind of music therapy that, along with Jungian analysis, enables Dr. Harris to help people bring mind and body together to release their full potentials. budharris.com
Bud Harris, Ph.D., originally became a businessman and successfully owned his own business before returning to school to become a psychotherapist. After earning his Ph.D. in psychology and practicing as a psychotherapist and psychologist, he experienced the call to further his growth and become a Jungian analyst. He then moved to Zürich, Switzerland where he trained for over five years and graduated from the C. G. Jung Institute. He is the author of ten books, lectures widely, and practices as a Jungian analyst in Asheville, North Carolina. budharris.com
July ~
Favianna Rodriguez
Favianna Rodriguez is a transdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and organizer based in Oakland, California. Her work and collaborative initiatives address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. Favianna lectures globally on intersection of art, social justice and cultural equity to catalyze social change, and leads art interventions in communities around the country. Rodriguez collaborates deeply with social movement groups around the country to co-create art that’s resilient, empowering and transformative. She is the Executive Director of CultureStrike , a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights. In 2012, she was featured in a documentary series by Pharrell Williams titled “Migration is Beautiful” which addressed how artists responded to failed immigrant policy in the United States. In 2016, she received a prestigious Robert Rauschenberg Fellowship. favianna.com
Favianna Rodriguez is a transdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and organizer based in Oakland, California. Her work and collaborative initiatives address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. Favianna lectures globally on intersection of art, social justice and cultural equity to catalyze social change, and leads art interventions in communities around the country. Rodriguez collaborates deeply with social movement groups around the country to co-create art that’s resilient, empowering and transformative. She is the Executive Director of CultureStrike , a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights. In 2012, she was featured in a documentary series by Pharrell Williams titled “Migration is Beautiful” which addressed how artists responded to failed immigrant policy in the United States. In 2016, she received a prestigious Robert Rauschenberg Fellowship. favianna.com
Annahid Dashtgard
Annahid Dashtgard (MEd) is co-founder of Anima Leadership, an award-winning consulting company that believes when people feel like they matter and belong the extraordinary becomes possible. Annahid has managed national political campaigns, advised on policy and led a number of organizational development initiatives. She brings an in-depth knowledge of both psychological and political forces involved in creating widespread social change. She is a published author, public speaker and media spokesperson on topics related to democracy, citizen engagement, belonging and diversity. Her most challenging and fulfilling leadership experience to date, however, has been her 2 toddlers teaching her about motherhood! AnimaLeadership.com.
Annahid Dashtgard (MEd) is co-founder of Anima Leadership, an award-winning consulting company that believes when people feel like they matter and belong the extraordinary becomes possible. Annahid has managed national political campaigns, advised on policy and led a number of organizational development initiatives. She brings an in-depth knowledge of both psychological and political forces involved in creating widespread social change. She is a published author, public speaker and media spokesperson on topics related to democracy, citizen engagement, belonging and diversity. Her most challenging and fulfilling leadership experience to date, however, has been her 2 toddlers teaching her about motherhood! AnimaLeadership.com.
Katie Hoffman
Katie Hoffman's oil paintings meld abstraction with figurative imagery, particularly images of women and animals. She is influenced by Jungian archetypes, fairy tales, and religious mythologies. She has been exhibiting and selling her work in galleries and cultural centers across Colorado since earning a BFA in 2004. Her work has been featured in national and international publications. Visit her website at katiehoffman.com
Katie Hoffman's oil paintings meld abstraction with figurative imagery, particularly images of women and animals. She is influenced by Jungian archetypes, fairy tales, and religious mythologies. She has been exhibiting and selling her work in galleries and cultural centers across Colorado since earning a BFA in 2004. Her work has been featured in national and international publications. Visit her website at katiehoffman.com
Elizabeth Lesser
Elizabeth Lesser is the author of The Seekers Guide, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow (both from Random House), and Marrow: A Love Story (Harper Collins). She is the cofounder of Omega Institute, recognized internationally for its workshops and conferences in health, wellness, spirituality, creativity, and social change. Prior to her work at Omega, she was a midwife and childbirth educator. She attended Barnard College and San Francisco State University, and lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her family. Webssite: elizabethlesser.org Facebook: facebook.com/ElizLesser/ Twitter: @ElizabethLesser
Elizabeth Lesser is the author of The Seekers Guide, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow (both from Random House), and Marrow: A Love Story (Harper Collins). She is the cofounder of Omega Institute, recognized internationally for its workshops and conferences in health, wellness, spirituality, creativity, and social change. Prior to her work at Omega, she was a midwife and childbirth educator. She attended Barnard College and San Francisco State University, and lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her family. Webssite: elizabethlesser.org Facebook: facebook.com/ElizLesser/ Twitter: @ElizabethLesser
June ~
On the Art of Lee Lawson by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Lee Lawson's gifts as an artist are evident not only in her superb technical skills, nor only in the ethereal palette she creates for her work. Even more so her gifts derive from an ability that is older than time… the ability to envision. She has clear memory of things that dance hide, misbehave, dream, sleep, appear and disappear in the human psyche. In myths and dreams, the unconscious, both collective and personal, is often symbolically portrayed as a great body of water. Lee Lawson's work clearly reflects those oceans that surge and thrive beneath our mundane consciousness. She is as much a shapechanger as she is an artist; a human being one moment, a sea creature the next. Only a person who navigates the interior life on a regular basis can consistently bring such spare but evocative images to canvas. Her work, most richly viewed as both inner and outer seeing, testifies to the fact that she is a rare artist especially skilled in bringing to the surface mysterious yet clearly stated first person accounts of the deep imaginal world. leelawson.com
Lee Lawson's gifts as an artist are evident not only in her superb technical skills, nor only in the ethereal palette she creates for her work. Even more so her gifts derive from an ability that is older than time… the ability to envision. She has clear memory of things that dance hide, misbehave, dream, sleep, appear and disappear in the human psyche. In myths and dreams, the unconscious, both collective and personal, is often symbolically portrayed as a great body of water. Lee Lawson's work clearly reflects those oceans that surge and thrive beneath our mundane consciousness. She is as much a shapechanger as she is an artist; a human being one moment, a sea creature the next. Only a person who navigates the interior life on a regular basis can consistently bring such spare but evocative images to canvas. Her work, most richly viewed as both inner and outer seeing, testifies to the fact that she is a rare artist especially skilled in bringing to the surface mysterious yet clearly stated first person accounts of the deep imaginal world. leelawson.com
Layla Saad
Layla Saad is a writer and mentor for spiritual women doing sacred work. Through her writings, mentoring and podcast, she guides women who are on the spiritual-entrepreneurial journey of owning their sovereignty, speaking their truth and changing lives and paradigms through their work. Her work explores womanhood, spirituality, creativity, business, sacred activism and how we can live & lead as the most powerful expression of our truest selves. Layla is a devotee of the priestess path and the Divine Feminine. wildmysticwoman.com
Layla Saad is a writer and mentor for spiritual women doing sacred work. Through her writings, mentoring and podcast, she guides women who are on the spiritual-entrepreneurial journey of owning their sovereignty, speaking their truth and changing lives and paradigms through their work. Her work explores womanhood, spirituality, creativity, business, sacred activism and how we can live & lead as the most powerful expression of our truest selves. Layla is a devotee of the priestess path and the Divine Feminine. wildmysticwoman.com
Shiloh Sophia
Shiloh Sophia lives life as a great adventure! For 25 years she has dedicated herself to art as a tool for transformation. Through paintings, poetry and teachings she reaches thousands throughout the world providing encouragement for the journey. She is the leader of a revolutionary education movement focused in Intentional Creativity; as offered in the Color of Woman Teacher Training. In collaboration with her husband Jonathan, she runs the Cosmic Cowgirls Ranch with a gallery, classroom, farm, vineyard and lodge in California. She can be found most mornings having tea with her Muse and kitties, Frida and Diego. Poetry and Paintings, Workshops, Movement, Facebook.
Shiloh Sophia lives life as a great adventure! For 25 years she has dedicated herself to art as a tool for transformation. Through paintings, poetry and teachings she reaches thousands throughout the world providing encouragement for the journey. She is the leader of a revolutionary education movement focused in Intentional Creativity; as offered in the Color of Woman Teacher Training. In collaboration with her husband Jonathan, she runs the Cosmic Cowgirls Ranch with a gallery, classroom, farm, vineyard and lodge in California. She can be found most mornings having tea with her Muse and kitties, Frida and Diego. Poetry and Paintings, Workshops, Movement, Facebook.
May ~
Tami Lynn Kent
Tami Lynn Kent is the founder of Holistic Pelvic Care for women and author of Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body, Mothering From Your Center, and Wild Creative: Igniting your Passion & Potential in Work, Home & Life. She is also a mother to three beautiful sons. Tami is passionate about teaching women to cultivate the creative energy meant to flow through all aspects of a woman's life and access this beauty and wildness within. Find out more at wildfeminine.com.
Tami Lynn Kent is the founder of Holistic Pelvic Care for women and author of Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body, Mothering From Your Center, and Wild Creative: Igniting your Passion & Potential in Work, Home & Life. She is also a mother to three beautiful sons. Tami is passionate about teaching women to cultivate the creative energy meant to flow through all aspects of a woman's life and access this beauty and wildness within. Find out more at wildfeminine.com.
Leticia Banegas
Leticia Banegas is a Honduran artist who started painting first as a hobby. Then in in 2012, she decided to take the plunge and become a full-time artist. As her greatest passion, it was the best decision she ever made. Her paintings of women depict a magical realm somewhere between heaven and earth. She derives inspiration from the generations of women in her family whose stories are rich, complex and for some, almost surreal. The magical presence of these women and other feminine archetypes can be found throughout her work. leticiabanegasartista.weebly.com
Leticia Banegas is a Honduran artist who started painting first as a hobby. Then in in 2012, she decided to take the plunge and become a full-time artist. As her greatest passion, it was the best decision she ever made. Her paintings of women depict a magical realm somewhere between heaven and earth. She derives inspiration from the generations of women in her family whose stories are rich, complex and for some, almost surreal. The magical presence of these women and other feminine archetypes can be found throughout her work. leticiabanegasartista.weebly.com
Kaveri Patel
Kaveri Patel, DO, is a practicing family physician interested in Eastern and Western healing modalities. She enjoys resting at the intersection of creativity, compassion, and connection on a busy day to hear the Sacred Feminine Kind Voice within. This voice informs and inspires her writing, parenting, and healing. Her greatest teachers are her family. Kaveri’s poems have been published in various anthologies, and more information about her books, classes, and musings can be found here.
Kaveri Patel, DO, is a practicing family physician interested in Eastern and Western healing modalities. She enjoys resting at the intersection of creativity, compassion, and connection on a busy day to hear the Sacred Feminine Kind Voice within. This voice informs and inspires her writing, parenting, and healing. Her greatest teachers are her family. Kaveri’s poems have been published in various anthologies, and more information about her books, classes, and musings can be found here.
Daria Petrilli
Daria Petrilli was born in 1970 and graduated as an illustrator at The Istituto Europeo di Design in 1995. She’s lived and worked in Rome as a freelancer in the field of editorial illustration for many years, specifically in the field of illustration for children’s books, both in Italy and on the international market. Her work has been used in advertising campaigns, books, covers, packaging, illustrations, for schools, and in encyclopedias. Her art has won or been selected in numerous competitions and exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
Daria Petrilli was born in 1970 and graduated as an illustrator at The Istituto Europeo di Design in 1995. She’s lived and worked in Rome as a freelancer in the field of editorial illustration for many years, specifically in the field of illustration for children’s books, both in Italy and on the international market. Her work has been used in advertising campaigns, books, covers, packaging, illustrations, for schools, and in encyclopedias. Her art has won or been selected in numerous competitions and exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
April ~
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, activist and the author of thirteen influential books in over ninety foreign editions, notably Goddesses in Everywoman, Urgent Message From Mother, The Millionth Circle. She is an internationally known speaker and workshop leader, was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF and is in private practice in Mill Valley, CA. Her advocacy of a UN 5th World Conference on Women (5WCW) is based on the premise that grassroots activism creates political will, and that peace and sustainability in the home and in the world begins with equality and empowerment of women. jeanbolen.com
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, activist and the author of thirteen influential books in over ninety foreign editions, notably Goddesses in Everywoman, Urgent Message From Mother, The Millionth Circle. She is an internationally known speaker and workshop leader, was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF and is in private practice in Mill Valley, CA. Her advocacy of a UN 5th World Conference on Women (5WCW) is based on the premise that grassroots activism creates political will, and that peace and sustainability in the home and in the world begins with equality and empowerment of women. jeanbolen.com
Leah Piken Kolidas
Leah Piken Kolidas is an artist living near Boston, MA with her husband, Andrew, and their two children, Annabelle and Alex. Leah has been making art since she was just two years old. She used to love to “drawf a wady” (draw a lady). Today, she still finds the female form plays a primary role in her artwork, which explores dreamlike imagery and the stories of her own life in acrylic paint and collage. Leah sells artwork on her website BlueTreeArtGallery.com and runs the annual Art Every Day Month Challenge in November at CreativeEveryDay.com.
Leah Piken Kolidas is an artist living near Boston, MA with her husband, Andrew, and their two children, Annabelle and Alex. Leah has been making art since she was just two years old. She used to love to “drawf a wady” (draw a lady). Today, she still finds the female form plays a primary role in her artwork, which explores dreamlike imagery and the stories of her own life in acrylic paint and collage. Leah sells artwork on her website BlueTreeArtGallery.com and runs the annual Art Every Day Month Challenge in November at CreativeEveryDay.com.
Sarah Treanor
Sarah Treanor has a passion for the meaning behind art. Losing both parents and her fiance by the age of 30, she has been using creativity to evolve her concept of grief for over 20 years. Through her own personal art and facilitating workshops, she strives to inspire others to express their struggles. For Sarah, creating is about giving things new purpose... “Putting your struggles into something creative gives them new meaning in your world.” streanor.com
Sarah Treanor has a passion for the meaning behind art. Losing both parents and her fiance by the age of 30, she has been using creativity to evolve her concept of grief for over 20 years. Through her own personal art and facilitating workshops, she strives to inspire others to express their struggles. For Sarah, creating is about giving things new purpose... “Putting your struggles into something creative gives them new meaning in your world.” streanor.com
Jalaja Bonheim
Jalaja Bonheim, Ph.D. is one of the world’s foremost experts in the use of circle gatherings as a tool for healing and empowering women. She has trained hundreds of leaders in the US and the Middle East, where she unites Jewish and Palestinian women. She is the author of five books including Aphrodite’s Daughters: Women’s Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul and The Sacred Ego: Making Peace with Ourselves and Our World, which won the Nautilus Award for best book of 2015. jalajabonheim.com
Jalaja Bonheim, Ph.D. is one of the world’s foremost experts in the use of circle gatherings as a tool for healing and empowering women. She has trained hundreds of leaders in the US and the Middle East, where she unites Jewish and Palestinian women. She is the author of five books including Aphrodite’s Daughters: Women’s Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul and The Sacred Ego: Making Peace with Ourselves and Our World, which won the Nautilus Award for best book of 2015. jalajabonheim.com
March ~
Sharon Blackie
Dr. Sharon Blackie is a writer of acclaimed fiction and nonfiction, a psychologist who has specialised both in neuroscience and narrative, and a mythologist with a specialisation in Celtic Studies. Her unique approach to working with myth and folklore highlights the insights these traditions can offer into authentic and meaningful ways of being founded on a deep sense of belonging to place, and rootedness in the land. Her most recent book, If Women Rose Rooted, offers up a new Heroine’s Journey for this challenging age of social and ecological crisis. www.sharonblackie.net
Dr. Sharon Blackie is a writer of acclaimed fiction and nonfiction, a psychologist who has specialised both in neuroscience and narrative, and a mythologist with a specialisation in Celtic Studies. Her unique approach to working with myth and folklore highlights the insights these traditions can offer into authentic and meaningful ways of being founded on a deep sense of belonging to place, and rootedness in the land. Her most recent book, If Women Rose Rooted, offers up a new Heroine’s Journey for this challenging age of social and ecological crisis. www.sharonblackie.net
Lucy Campbell
Lucy Campbell was born in Perth in 1977 and currently lives near Stirling, although she has travelled widely and her influences range from the allegorical and surreal Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo, to the illustrations of John Bauer, Edmund Dulac and Vladislav Erko. Lucy has collectors all over the world and increasingly works on private commissions. Her images have regularly been sought out for use in conjunction with psychotherapy and shamanic therapies, and in recent years she has shifted the focus of her work ever more towards providing a tool for healing. Visit her website here.
Lucy Campbell was born in Perth in 1977 and currently lives near Stirling, although she has travelled widely and her influences range from the allegorical and surreal Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo, to the illustrations of John Bauer, Edmund Dulac and Vladislav Erko. Lucy has collectors all over the world and increasingly works on private commissions. Her images have regularly been sought out for use in conjunction with psychotherapy and shamanic therapies, and in recent years she has shifted the focus of her work ever more towards providing a tool for healing. Visit her website here.
Emma Restall Orr
Emma Restall Orr is author of ‘Kissing the Hag: the dark goddess and the unacceptable nature of woman’, ‘Living with Honour: a Pagan ethics’, ‘The Wakeful World: animism, mind and the self in nature’, together with other books on Druidry and countless articles and essays in journals and compilations. An animist who believes passionately in the sanctity of all nature, an anarchist who believes passionately in personal responsibility and co-operative action, Emma lives in the heart of England, running a nature reserve and natural burial ground with her partner of 35 years. Find her at emmarestallorr.org and sunrisingburialground.co.uk.
Emma Restall Orr is author of ‘Kissing the Hag: the dark goddess and the unacceptable nature of woman’, ‘Living with Honour: a Pagan ethics’, ‘The Wakeful World: animism, mind and the self in nature’, together with other books on Druidry and countless articles and essays in journals and compilations. An animist who believes passionately in the sanctity of all nature, an anarchist who believes passionately in personal responsibility and co-operative action, Emma lives in the heart of England, running a nature reserve and natural burial ground with her partner of 35 years. Find her at emmarestallorr.org and sunrisingburialground.co.uk.
Anne Siems
Anne Siems’ work has moved from semi-abstract botanical drawings to young women and children on wood panel. The thread here being her fascination and awe of life on this planet and the connectedness she feels to all. In her work she tries to be as honest and true to herself as she can without losing discernment. She aims as best as she can for sincerity, intimacy and openness in her paintings. In them she finds the beginning of something that touches the universal. It is a place where others can touch the magic and sensuality that gets exposed in the process. She hopes that the viewer attains a visceral experience, and in her work is looking to find the point in which we feel a certain ache – the ache caused by the knowledge that life is full of light and dark, sacred and profane, beauty and ugliness, life and death. annesiems.com
Anne Siems’ work has moved from semi-abstract botanical drawings to young women and children on wood panel. The thread here being her fascination and awe of life on this planet and the connectedness she feels to all. In her work she tries to be as honest and true to herself as she can without losing discernment. She aims as best as she can for sincerity, intimacy and openness in her paintings. In them she finds the beginning of something that touches the universal. It is a place where others can touch the magic and sensuality that gets exposed in the process. She hopes that the viewer attains a visceral experience, and in her work is looking to find the point in which we feel a certain ache – the ache caused by the knowledge that life is full of light and dark, sacred and profane, beauty and ugliness, life and death. annesiems.com
February ~
Maureen Murdock
Maureen Murdock, Ph.D. is the author of the best-selling book, The Heroine’s Journey, her response to Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces. She is also the author of Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory; Fathers’ Daughters: Breaking the Ties that Bind; Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children; The Heroine’s Journey Workbook and a Kindle short entitled The Emergence of Bipolar Disorder: A Mother’s Perspective. You can read her blog about the criminal justice system and mental illness on her website.
Maureen Murdock, Ph.D. is the author of the best-selling book, The Heroine’s Journey, her response to Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces. She is also the author of Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory; Fathers’ Daughters: Breaking the Ties that Bind; Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children; The Heroine’s Journey Workbook and a Kindle short entitled The Emergence of Bipolar Disorder: A Mother’s Perspective. You can read her blog about the criminal justice system and mental illness on her website.
Sharmon Davidson
Sharmon Davidson left the world of graphic design to focus on raising two beautiful children, while indulging her thirst for art by earning two more degrees. Intent on sharing her knowledge, she taught in the public schools, and began exhibiting her art throughout the U.S. Personal symbols and original techniques developed as she sought to communicate the mystery of the interconnection between all things. Her work has been featured in various publications, and has won awards in national and regional juried shows. She is currently represented by the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen Gallery in Berea, Kentucky. Visit her website to see her work.
Sharmon Davidson left the world of graphic design to focus on raising two beautiful children, while indulging her thirst for art by earning two more degrees. Intent on sharing her knowledge, she taught in the public schools, and began exhibiting her art throughout the U.S. Personal symbols and original techniques developed as she sought to communicate the mystery of the interconnection between all things. Her work has been featured in various publications, and has won awards in national and regional juried shows. She is currently represented by the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen Gallery in Berea, Kentucky. Visit her website to see her work.
Malgosia Halliop
Malgosia Halliop is passionate about transformative learning, deep nature connection, and the everyday practices of building wholehearted relationships and resilient communities. She is a voracious seeker of wisdom in all its forms and navigates her relationship to the world through myth and metaphor; tending spiritual and embodied connections to place; and making things with her hands. She has a graduate degree in adult education and community development, has completed apprenticeship and certification in wildlife tracking, and has in recent years been working within the Art of Mentoring movement in Ontario. She weaves her writing, creative and community work around homeschooling her two children. Some of her writing can be found on her blog Between These Rivers.
Malgosia Halliop is passionate about transformative learning, deep nature connection, and the everyday practices of building wholehearted relationships and resilient communities. She is a voracious seeker of wisdom in all its forms and navigates her relationship to the world through myth and metaphor; tending spiritual and embodied connections to place; and making things with her hands. She has a graduate degree in adult education and community development, has completed apprenticeship and certification in wildlife tracking, and has in recent years been working within the Art of Mentoring movement in Ontario. She weaves her writing, creative and community work around homeschooling her two children. Some of her writing can be found on her blog Between These Rivers.
Joanna Powell Colbert
Joanna Powell Colbert, creatrix of the Gaian Tarot and the Pentimento Tarot, has been an artist, teacher, and convener of circles for over thirty years. She was named by SageWoman magazine as one of the Wisdom Keepers of the Goddess Spirituality movement. Joanna teaches workshops and e-courses on earth-centered spirituality, seasonal contemplative practices, creativity as a devotional path, the Sacred Feminine, and using tarot as a tool for inner guidance and self-exploration. Visit her online at www.GaianSoul.com.
Joanna Powell Colbert, creatrix of the Gaian Tarot and the Pentimento Tarot, has been an artist, teacher, and convener of circles for over thirty years. She was named by SageWoman magazine as one of the Wisdom Keepers of the Goddess Spirituality movement. Joanna teaches workshops and e-courses on earth-centered spirituality, seasonal contemplative practices, creativity as a devotional path, the Sacred Feminine, and using tarot as a tool for inner guidance and self-exploration. Visit her online at www.GaianSoul.com.
Lucy H. Pearce
Lucy H. Pearce is a vibrant painter of lost archetypes of the feminine and author of five life-changing non-fiction books for women, including the Amazon bestsellers Burning Woman; The Rainbow Way - cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood and Moon Time - harness the ever-changing energy of your menstrual cycle. She is the founding editor of Womancraft Publishing. Lucy’s art, writing and transformational creative e-courses WORD+image and Your Authentic Voice can be found on her website lucyhpearce.com.
Lucy H. Pearce is a vibrant painter of lost archetypes of the feminine and author of five life-changing non-fiction books for women, including the Amazon bestsellers Burning Woman; The Rainbow Way - cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood and Moon Time - harness the ever-changing energy of your menstrual cycle. She is the founding editor of Womancraft Publishing. Lucy’s art, writing and transformational creative e-courses WORD+image and Your Authentic Voice can be found on her website lucyhpearce.com.
January ~
Gaia Orion
Gaia Orion has gained recognition by participating in many worldwide projects that are working toward constructive world change and by exhibiting internationally. In sharing the artwork and connecting with others she discovered that these transformational themes are part of a larger visionary movement that is active in society today... as deep ecology, social justice, conscious politic, alternative economy, and so on... Uniting our vision and natural talents can become a catalyst for individual and collective change so that we can move together toward a healthier humanity. Connect with Gaia at her webiste.
Gaia Orion has gained recognition by participating in many worldwide projects that are working toward constructive world change and by exhibiting internationally. In sharing the artwork and connecting with others she discovered that these transformational themes are part of a larger visionary movement that is active in society today... as deep ecology, social justice, conscious politic, alternative economy, and so on... Uniting our vision and natural talents can become a catalyst for individual and collective change so that we can move together toward a healthier humanity. Connect with Gaia at her webiste.
Toko-pa Turner
Toko-pa Turner is an artists, writer, and dreamworker. Blending the mystical tradition of Sufism in which she was raised with a Jungian approach to dreamwork, she founded the Dream School in 2001 from which hundreds of students have since graduated. Toko-pa has been interviewed by CNN News and BBC Radio and has a community of over 75,000 online readers. She is currently finishing a book on Belonging, which explores the themes of exile, embodiment and the search for belonging. Sometimes called a Midwife of the Psyche, Toko-pa’s work focuses on restoring the feminine, reconciling paradox, and facilitating sacred grief & ritual practice. You can find Toko-pa on her beloved Facebook page Dreamwork with Toko-pa or on her website.
Toko-pa Turner is an artists, writer, and dreamworker. Blending the mystical tradition of Sufism in which she was raised with a Jungian approach to dreamwork, she founded the Dream School in 2001 from which hundreds of students have since graduated. Toko-pa has been interviewed by CNN News and BBC Radio and has a community of over 75,000 online readers. She is currently finishing a book on Belonging, which explores the themes of exile, embodiment and the search for belonging. Sometimes called a Midwife of the Psyche, Toko-pa’s work focuses on restoring the feminine, reconciling paradox, and facilitating sacred grief & ritual practice. You can find Toko-pa on her beloved Facebook page Dreamwork with Toko-pa or on her website.
Sarah La Rosa
Sarah La Rosa is a Divine Feminine writer, a spiritual guide and a medicine woman of the soul. She is the author of 'Her Strange Angels: A book of invocations, beauty words and divine presence' and founder of the Her Strange Angels community. Her deep passion is to bring healing love to the wounded and fearful heart, through sacred poetry, meditations and soulfully honest conversation. In person, Sarah maintains a bodywork practice, where she blends massage therapy, energy healing and soul work. Connect with Sarah at her website, on Facebook or Instagram.
Sarah La Rosa is a Divine Feminine writer, a spiritual guide and a medicine woman of the soul. She is the author of 'Her Strange Angels: A book of invocations, beauty words and divine presence' and founder of the Her Strange Angels community. Her deep passion is to bring healing love to the wounded and fearful heart, through sacred poetry, meditations and soulfully honest conversation. In person, Sarah maintains a bodywork practice, where she blends massage therapy, energy healing and soul work. Connect with Sarah at her website, on Facebook or Instagram.
Jeanie Tomanek
Jeanie Tomanek didn’t start painting full time until she was fifty. She wanted to tell allegorical stories about women and was especially inspired by poetry, myths and folktales. She loves to show the strength and optimistic attributes of women. Even when they are in a quandary or in danger, she always tries to show a glimmer of hope and wisdom—that they will solve the riddle and make it through, stronger and with dignity. Being bald and shorn of any particular identity, they become all women. Connect with Jeanie at her website.
Jeanie Tomanek didn’t start painting full time until she was fifty. She wanted to tell allegorical stories about women and was especially inspired by poetry, myths and folktales. She loves to show the strength and optimistic attributes of women. Even when they are in a quandary or in danger, she always tries to show a glimmer of hope and wisdom—that they will solve the riddle and make it through, stronger and with dignity. Being bald and shorn of any particular identity, they become all women. Connect with Jeanie at her website.