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 This unique and rare opportunity to gather and connect with the wild places will be an experience unlike any other. Art workshops, daily excursions, and evening events are designed to awaken creativity, help you delight in the unexpected, and stoke the inner fires of courage and daring. 

Amy, Marianne and Dianne will team teach, intertwining their individual artistic skills and expertise. Daily art making workshops will focus on viewing nature as a visual metaphor and seeing with an artist eye. Classes will be held in the recently remodeled Cicada Shed and an outdoor canopy. We will forage natural materials to create and photograph Imagination Gardens in bowls of black sand; Earth Icons evoking vessels, mothers, or warriors; and Nature Mandalas that transform the commonplace into awesome designs. Your photos will be transferred to paper and fabric that you color with botanicals and natural dyes. Using mark making tools crafted from foraged nature, we will capture the impressions and moods inspired by Caddo Lake with Chinese watercolors, sumi and oak gall ink. We will find words to respond to the landscape, combining them with objects and your drawings to create a unique-as-you fabric scroll. We will also experiment with cyanotypes and mixed media collage. Everything you need will be provided. 

 Each night after dinner, we will gather at the outdoor Circle to share stories and enjoy performances of poetry and dance by Dianne, such as those she presented at various international venues including most recently, the Argos Theatre Festival and the Delphi Economic Forum in Greece. We are delighted that on one of these nights, nature will treat us to a super moon! 

The registration fee includes a private boat tour of the lake and a visit to the Caddo Lake State Park. A field trip to Jefferson, Texas, just happens to coincide with the Texas Big Foot Conference!