This unique art exhibit features large works by women who painted their bodies and then imprinted them on canvas through a 5-day process with Expressive Arts Therapist Pamela Underwood, based in Poway, Ca. The women continue to work on their body print through visual art, poetry, music and storytelling. Saturday, February 16th opening reception Imprint of Women; 2013 Bodywriting Exhibit, Underwood and, the artists will read short excerpts from their Bodywriting Retreat journals, share their experience of printing their nude body and then working with the image that arrived as a creative partner.
Opening Reception Saturday, February 16, 2013
4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
FREE Event!
Expressive Arts @ 32nd and Thorn
3201 Thorn Street
San Diego, CA 92104
(619) 251-8474
http://expressiveartssandiego.com
Show Dates: February 16 – April 13, 2013
During studio event hours or by appointment (619) 251-8474
Background on “The Bodywriting Retreat for Women”
The expressive arts Bodywriting Retreat concept was originally hatched in 1994 by Poway’s body-printing artist Pamela Underwood and San Diego’s professional writer Judy Reeves, thus the name Bodywriting. Underwood has continued to facilitate the retreats ever since. The participant’s work has been exhibited three times in the past 19 years, most recently at the South Florida Jugian Conference.
Bodywriting’s five day retreat provides a safe container for the creatively vulnerable group process of printing one’s nude body and then working with the print that arrives through dialog with the image; respectfully asking who has arrived and what it needs from the artist next. As a working partner with the image the participant responds through the expressive arts of journaling, movement, drumming, poetry and artistic feedback. Visual arts techniques of Intuitive Collage, printmaking, drawing, mixed media, acrylic and painting are used.
A strong sense of community is formed through helping each other in the studio, sharing meals, stories, drumming, walking the labyrinth and witnessing each other’s process. Artist/expressive arts therapist, Pamela Underwood expertly guides and maintains a sense of safety so that this intimately creative group process can take place and participants return to their lives resilient, inspired and restored, having gleaned new insight and direction.
Become part of this unique art-based community. Join us for The Bodywriting Retreat for Women in 2013!
Next Retreat Dates:
July 18-22 2013 in Poway, California at the beautiful Pamela Underwood Studios
October 24-28, 2013 in Taos New Mexico at the historically bohemian, Mabel Dodge Luhan House. www.pamelaunderwood.com