We’ve changed the schedule up a bit and Dream Tending will now begin on October 3. We’ve edited the copy below to reflect that update.

Join us in October 2011 for Dream Tending, a four-week, online workshop led by Kelly Barton, Michelle Ensminger, & Mishelle Lane.

Class price is $49 and includes daily posts  (Monday through Friday) and weekly activities in multimedia art, storytelling and photography to tend your own dreams in times of transition. In addition, there will be a creative toolkit section included in each week’s lessons. Class begins October 3.

NOTE: Registration for Dream Tending is now closed. Please consider joining us for one of our upcoming courses.

Course Description

Life is a series of transitions, and navigating through those transitions can be tricky. Tending your most precious dreams in the midst of life’s transitions is trickier still. How do you learn to honor where you are and practice self-care, while at the same time maintaining focus on your dreams?

During this course, we’ll provide helpful tools you can use to nurture your dreams as you wade through life’s transitions. We’ll share our personal perspectives of transition and discuss ways you can keep your creative life fertile. Utilizing photography, art, and writing exercises, you’ll open yourself to the constancy and flow of dream tending  and discover that the fruit of dream tending is an enriched, meaningful, and awakened life.

Supply List

digital camera (camera phone is perfectly fine)
journal or notebook
pens, pencils, and crayons
markers
acrylic paints
found paper
stencils
glue stick or modpodge
a little mood music

Instructors

Kelly Barton is a mixed media artist and graphic designer from her home base of middle Indiana. She is inspired by the inner-workings of a girl’s nutty mind and believes that growing up girl is enough inspiration for any artist. She features her artwork in her eclectic mixed media art pieces, funky notecards, spunky jewelry baubles, and fun tee-shirts available on her Etsy shop. Kelly created Kelly Barton Art +Design to remind people that we’re all connected, and because she believes we all need a bit of happy.

Kelly’s art has appeared in several national shows, including CORE: The Art and Design of the Torso (2009),the Enormous Tiny Art Show (2008), and Visions of Squam I and II (2009, 2010). Kelly’s work appeared on the cover of Underwired Magazine in March 2008, and she is a contributor to the book Inner Excavation: Exploring Your Self Through Photography, Poetry and Mixed Media (published by North Light Books).

 

Michelle Ensminger loves poetry, photography, and dates with her 8 year old son. A West Texas native, you can often find her curled up in a makeshift fort writing her way through the messiness of life. Michelle always strives to nurture her creative spirit and pursue an authentic spiritual path in the midst of motherhood and working an 8-5 job. She believes writing can heal and awaken us to life, that stillness holds great power, and in the sacred act of honoring the present moment.  She is currently taking a hiatus from blogging, but she is a regular, monthly contributor for Wish Studio. You can find more of her on Flickr and Facebook.

 

Mishelle Lane can’t not photograph. She must. Photography, and the tools that go along with it, are an integral part of who she is. From the moment as a young girl when her grandfather handed her his Canon point-and-shoot and showed her how to load the film, until her senior year when she carried around a boxy, silver SLR to document student life, to the Polaroid that sparked her portrait studio career in the early nineties. In 2007, she jumped back into photography with a self portrait Project 365 on her blog, Secret Agent Mama. That year painted the portrait of the busy mother. It also led to new found love of story telling through, both, words and photos. Her evolution continued on through 2009 when she launched Mishelle Lane Photography. Her repertoire includes portrait photography for families, children, couples, and individuals, event photography of all kinds, and impressionistic art.

Mishelle has been featured on a panel at Blissdom ‘09 in Nashville, TN; instructing a photo-walk at the 2009 Type-A Mom Conference in Asheville, NC; leading a collaborative Wisdom Workshop at Blissdom ‘10; and speaking about photography at BlogHer ’10 in New York City, NY.  Most recently she co-led another Wisdom Workshop at Blissdom ’11 in Nashville, TN as was chosen as one of the Photography Tribe Leaders for conference photography.

 

NOTE: Registration for Dream Tending is now closed. Please consider joining us for one of our upcoming courses.