Class & Public Reception: Painting from the Divine Feminine with Batya Weinbaum
Venue: The Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd
Date: Saturday, June 1, 2013
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost:

Description:
The Jacksonville Center for the Arts offers Painting from the Divine Feminine with Batya Weinbaum on Saturday, June 1st. The class will be held from 10 am-6 pm and there will be a public reception from 6-8 pm.

Class Description:
In this workshop, participants of all ages and genders will have the opportunity to draw and paint from a range of images of goddesses from different cultures and to discuss their experiences making art from these powerful female images. Participants will explore what the archetypes from different cultures open up in their own psychologies, and after experimenting making their own images, will have the opportunity to present and discuss their images to the community in an open panel discussion and display in the evening.

The evening presentation and display will also include a talk by the instructor on visits to villages in India where many of the images she works with of Durga and Kali were collected. Information from research on the Divine Feminine and how the images operate in the lives of women artists in other cultures will be provided as a context for participants' experience.

Carl Jung and Erich Neumann both asserted that the self appeared enlarged by a god image of the same gender, which would mean in Jungian psychology a space for the Feminine Divine. Early women in this movement, including Marie Louise Von Franz, Esther Harding and Irene de Castillejo, began researching the importance of female divine images for female psychology, but it has only been since the rebirth of the women's spirituality movement in the mid eighties that the significance of women's own experience of the transpersonal Divine Feminine reemerged. The flowering of the women's spirituality movement and the implications of explorations of the Goddess as a self-image for women began to be explored as a vast variety f goddesses were rediscovered historically from earlier cultures that were more female-centered.

Materials Fee: $0
Minimum Enrollment, 3: Maximum Enrollment, 20
Minimum Age: Responsible Young Adult

The Jax is located at 220 Parkway Lane South in Floyd, Virginia ½ mile south of the stoplight on Route 8.

For more information, visit: http://jacksonvillecenter.org/2010-classes/06-june/painting-from-the-divine-feminine-twd060113/ or call 540-745-2784 or email info@jacksonvillecenter.org.