Fabric Art Designs
Exhibitions, Classes & Workshops

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Cindy Male Art and Yoga Studios and Gallery

ZemiZen goes to Beaufort County, SC

Zemi/Zen Fabric Installation, Fashion Walk, and Cultural Lecture

Zemi/Zen Cultural Exhibit and Lecture, Art Works Gallery, Friday, July 16th from 6:00 to 8:00.

Display of Japanese Wedding Kimono, Juxtaposition of the Taino Heart and the Zen Head Fabric design and Fashion Design by Cindy Male.

Funded in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Beaufort County and the Virgin Islands Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necesarialy reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Creativity Classes at Arts Council of Beaufort County
July 18 - July 23, 2010 | 843-379-2787

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Creativity Workshop will be held Monday thru Friday evenings July 18- 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. This workshop is to encourage all to relax into their creativity and to learn to use the creative process to bring about change in their lives Participants will take a creativity test, investigate their own personal creative aspects, find their own personal creative outlet, explore possible interests and media for art making, learn how to guide personal creative exploration, and finally, learn how famous artists of the past have used their creativity to bring about change. $180 for all five classes. Sign up by calling 843-379-2787 Scroll Down for more specific information on the goals of the class.

Partially Sponsored by the Arts Council of Beaufort County

~ SEE YOU THERE ! ~

You Tube Video on Art, Creativity, and Consciousness

Art as Meditation

Art & Consciousness Workshop / ACBC
Expanding Perception / Strengthening the Intuitive

Drawing from life requires the individual to focus. Learned drawing skills (and they are skills, not gifts one is born with) allow an individual to move from a left brain, time oriented, self absorbed, active, beta brain state to one more receptive, inclusive, and slower in frequency. There are biofeedback programs for youth with Attention Deficit Disorder that help children with this syndrome to recognize when they are performing in a lower frequency brain state. Drawing is a skill that addresses ATTENTION, strengthening the Intuitive.

Art as Appropriation

Art & Consciousness Workshop / ACBC
Synthesizing information / Association of Meanings

Image making involves an individual with the total self. It reflects all aspects of the individual’s knowledge, intellectual and emotional, learned and inherent, conscious and unconscious. When knowledge is combined with new information, associations are expanded and understanding is broadened.

Art as Visualization

Art & Consciousness Workshop / ACBC
Going Inward / Opening and Acceptance / Strengthening

Scientific studies of the brain have proven that the same parts of the brain that are actively involved in recognition of a place or person are also active whether the individual is mentally visualizing the image of the person or place or actually seeing the person or place. Seeing with the mind’s eye can be encouraged and improved through art experiences. Seeing with the mind’s eye strengthens commitment that improves confidence of expression.

Art & Creativity

Art & Consciousness Workshop / ACBC
Eight Aspects of a Creative Individual / Creativity Test

Creativity is the act of moving beyond the already established into new realms. Creativity can take an individual into areas of awareness totally new to a society or extend an individual’s understanding, preparing him/her for productive change. Participants in this section of the workshop will take a creativity test and evaluate themselves in terms of eight aspects of the creative individual.

Art and Intention

Art & Consciousness Workshop / ACBC
Finding your Expressive Self through Self Awareness

In the artistic process, the act of creative decision to making requires self to awareness. Self to awareness leads to self to discovery. Each completed work of art can lead to an idea for another work. Eventually, the very endeavor of working creatively leads to having an intention prior to beginning the piece. If an individual can recognize and complete an intention in their art, they can transfer that concept to life. Thus, an individual can learn to live with intention.

Art & Transformation

Art & Consciousness Workshop / ACBC
Tools for Change / Evaluation on a Transformative Level

When an individual begins to recognize and resolve artistic issues on paper, it will naturally follow that one will be able to recognize and solve problems in life. Successful problem solving strengthens confidence in one’s ability to make changes on a transformational level. Scientific studies of the frontal lobal area of the brain have lead to the conclusion that this section of the brain is involved in the ability of persons to see consequences of their actions. To be able to see consequences of one’s actions is a result of successful problem solving. New studies have shown that this area of the brain is activated through meditation, giving a sense of peace and compassion. It is my belief that this is also the area of the brain that is involved in psychic intuitive knowledge. Further studies have revealed that this area of the brain increases in gray matter at several stages of an individual’s life. One of those stages of increased gray matter is during adolescence. However, if the increased gray matter is not used, it decreases again in size. The artistic process strengthens all of the frontal lobal capacities.