Mask Making Workshops
Many years ago during an impasse in my life, I took some time off and explored every creative outlet I was attracted to. I wrote stories, played music, made collages and made a series of paper-mache masks in order to somehow reach a deeper perspective and give my life a new direcrtion.
During that time I was seeing a Jungian Analyst and did some powerful work with the imagery evoked by these masks. Subsequently I pursued mask-making as an expressive art and continued throughout graduate school and after, studying and taking workshops with fine mask-makers.
I continue to work with mask-making and have led classes from time to time. The experience has been richly rewarding both for me and for my students. There is something wonderfully dynamic and paradoxical about masks, which have the ability to both hide and reveal. there is value in mirroring one's own inner world and great pleasure in giving form to the products of one's own imagination.
Although it takes time to make a good mask, no previous skill is required. In fact, often the individual who thinks she/he is the least creative, comes up with the most charming and magical mask.
I supply most of the basic materials and the studio environment itself, which becomes a wonderful container for the creative process.
During that time I was seeing a Jungian Analyst and did some powerful work with the imagery evoked by these masks. Subsequently I pursued mask-making as an expressive art and continued throughout graduate school and after, studying and taking workshops with fine mask-makers.
I continue to work with mask-making and have led classes from time to time. The experience has been richly rewarding both for me and for my students. There is something wonderfully dynamic and paradoxical about masks, which have the ability to both hide and reveal. there is value in mirroring one's own inner world and great pleasure in giving form to the products of one's own imagination.
Although it takes time to make a good mask, no previous skill is required. In fact, often the individual who thinks she/he is the least creative, comes up with the most charming and magical mask.
I supply most of the basic materials and the studio environment itself, which becomes a wonderful container for the creative process.