We encourage you in the grounding and joyful practice of working with your own hands.
Workshop Hospitality
Art, Making and Spiritual Direction
Project-Based Classes
You will find more information below about these offerings.
To learn more, take part, or develop a experiential learning tailored to your community, please write or call.
Workshop Hospitality
You are invited to stop by the Workshop this spring and summer on Tuesday, 9am-12noon and Wednesday, 4-7pm.
You are welcome to help with current projects, or ask me about something specific you would like to try to learn.
Right now I’m working on some small furniture and tools, as well as exploring relief and screen printing.
We can enjoy some contemplative tinkering or sketching, a prayer pause, a coffee break or a late afternoon snack.
Spiritual Tools for Artists, 2023-24
Rendering the Ground: An Art and Spiritual Direction Series
Anonymous Machinist in British Shipbuilding Plant
Art and other made-objects furnish revelation and practical guidance for us from unknown depths.
In this 7 session series, we will explore a diverse set of artistic themes, movements, and objects. Painting, carving, furniture, buildings, and more.
We hope to provide you art appreciation and spiritual direction in a kind and open-hearted group setting.
In a grounded and listening spirit, we will explore images about each month's genre or theme, and move to a single image for a short, focused visual meditation time.
We then gather up learnings and practical next steps. Our engagement with the art and one another opens us to movements of the Spirit in our more-whole being.
Our themes in 2023-24 were:
Painting Hospitality: Meals and Table Fellowship
Modern Arts and Crafts: Beautiful Utility
American Folk Art: Simplicity Reveals
Wood Carvings: Green Men and Wild Women
Houses, Inside and Out
Caves, Cathedrals and Barns
“Where the Wild Things Are”: Animals in Art
More information here soon about Visio and Technica Divina sessions for Fall 2024-Winter 2025.
You can sign up thru this link to the Priory Spirituality Center.
The Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, Diego Velasquez
Project-Based Classes
Candle-Holder
This class is intended for complete beginners, so that you gain familiarity with basic woodworking tools, materials, skills and safety, as well as confidence to pursue further learning and making. It is a nice way to prepare for the Christian season Advent, and other religious traditions in which light figure.
This class is very portable, and would be a lovely activity for church, youth group, scouts or others.
You will learn about:
wood and lumber dimensions,
how to measure, mark and cut to a line with a handsaw,
how to cut a simple joint with saw and chisel, gluing,
and how to bore a hole with a brace and bit.
You will also take home ideas of how to finish your project, and even build another!
Your candle-holder can be a perfect way to make times of prayer and celebration felt in new ways.
Community-Builds: Benches & More
