MAY YOU HAVE A
BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY SEASON,
A HEALTHY NEW YEAR,
And Enjoy making ART.....
EVERYDAY,
EVERYWHERE,
With EVERYTHING!
(including empty toilet paper rolls)

Some of our favorite links from this year....
http://www.eightprinciples.com/
movie about i...

We met in New York, saw the Statue of Liberty and shopped until Birta found Toys R Us.....

Happy to announce that one special piece of my private art collection has found a new home in the Blue Room of the American Jazz Museum, located at 1616 E 18th KCMO. This recently renovated area is where the historic roots of KC jazz began. The Blue Room is a smoke free bar in the museum with histor...

This winter I broke my arm while I was working on a sculpture. I recruited some Kansas City Art Institute fiber students to help in the studio. They were excited about working on costumes for the school's big annual fundraiser. They were making all sorts of mythological creatures, beasts and angels....

The first time I went to Booneville, I decieded to build a sweatlodge. Charles liked it so much he recruited his grand kids to help build a permanent one. This is the hedge wood frame. Today, I was just looking for more information on this Native American tradition when the phone rang. Another frien...

An artist named Charles has 20 acres of nature in Booneville. He likes to share it with other artists. A tar paper shack is the guest house. It is made of tar paper and bottles, skulls, bones antlers, bird wings and rusty stuff with cardboard boxes from cereal and cookies and candy wrappers and labe...

Last Thursday was the First of Summer, this Thursday is the First of May; both are holidays, and the neighboring town Thingeyri is making the most of them. They are starting a project to rekindle their Viking heritage. They have recieved some grant funding for the next three years to bring specialis...

SUNDAY....SUN day...eternal life force...directions...radiance
This was my group. We talked about the sun and what it felt like. Warm, comforting like a Mother. Without the sun there would be no life. We wanted to do something that would continue on after the workshop was over. Somthing that would ...

Saturday... with ANNA SIGRIDUR OLAFSDOTTIR
Time, Boundaries, Structure, Laws, Responsibility
What my group worked on was the time concept. The main thing in that aspect was to realize how valuable time is and how important it was for them to use their time wisely. It also brought to frocus their r...

THURSDAY...with HERA OLAFSDOTTIR
Thursday is Thor's day...Norse Jupiter
Space, Balance, Curiosity, Storytelling, Make sense of information.
Theater in the Attic!!
We had the theme Thursday, and that’s Jupiter. SPACE....First we explored what space is to us. We were thinking about the universe. B...

 WEDNESDAY...with ANNA INGOLFSDOTTIR
Wednesday is Woden's day... MERCURY....AIR...IDEAS...BREATH...WORD MAGIC
In the group with the issue of air, breath, lungs, wind, and words, we started with a pranayama and allowed ourselves to explore how our bodies expanded while inhale and contracted with e...

TUESDAY...with HILDUR JOHANNESDOTTIR
Tuesday is Mars Day or Tiw in Norse Mythology...
FIRE...Energy, Desires, Compassion, Action, Dance, Hero
What we did was start by listening to the music "Hekla" by Jón Leifs. We read and discussed some material we had about our theme. Meanwhile and afterwards...

MONDAY & FRIDAY
with Ólafur Egill and Bjarni Massi
Monday is MOON day....WATER...MOODS...EMOTIONS...
Friday is Freya's day...Norse Venus…EARTH, Beauty, Love, SovereigntyFrom Monday to Friday.
 
The themes we were offered to work with were Monday/Friday.  Earth and Water.  One of our group - L...

WARM UP GAMES
First was Oli's.....
Outside we played a game where the group divides in half forming two opposing lines. The first group secretely deciedes on a movie, they link arms and stomp toward the other group shouting "Here we come! Here we come!" They stop at a short distance from the "Othe...

THANK YOU to everyone for the great weekend!Saturday the group visited a cave and then soaked in the Blue Lagoon. Sunday was the art project....here's what happened...
Seven local artists were asked to be group leaders. We met a few days before the project and decieced to use the theme of creating ...