Languages Lost and Found
Missoula Art Museum
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February 10 through April 7, 2022 // Thursdays from 3 to 6 PM // FREE // Register HERE
During this winter session, teens will create art while traveling through history, culture, and their imaginations asking the question: What languages has our culture granted us access to, and what lost languages are calling to us? Learn about the Salish language, plant medicine language, the language of constellations, and the language of fine art in addition to other languages students wish to explore. Students will speak with working artists about how they developed a personal artistic language through trial and error. Explore color, sound, image, shape, brain science, and more while leaping down the rabbit hole of language. Teens will get hands-on experience organizing and preparing an exhibition of their individual and collaborative works of art in the Lela Autio Education Gallery at MAM. Register HERE |
Oracle card by Jen Bardsley, 2021
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Archetypes and Oracles
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A group show of oracle cards made by participants in my Zoom workshop, “Archetypes Among Us: Create Your Own Oracle Deck” (see below) during the COVID lockdowns of 2020-2021.
September 10—October 10, 2021
By Hand Collective Gallery
1110 Hawthorne Street
Missoula, MT 59802
September 10—October 10, 2021
By Hand Collective Gallery
1110 Hawthorne Street
Missoula, MT 59802
Archetypes Among Us:
Make Your Own Oracle Deck Workshop
This class will repeat if there is sufficient interest. Please reach out via the contact form below and I'll keep you posted about plans.
Six Thursdays • January 14 — February 18, 2021 • 6-8 p.m. • via Zoom
In this course, each participant will create a unique deck of cards based on archetypes and intended for personal use.
What are archetypes? Carl Jung described them as universal symbols that reach deep into humanity's collective unconscious. Emerging from the mists of instinct and even our animal selves, they are frequently encountered in dreams, art, literature, film, and everyday life. Archetypes are easily recognizable for their enduring ability to fascinate and communicate. We encounter the Father archetype in Mufasa (The Lion King), Yahweh, Pa Ingalls, and our own dads. Beauty takes shape as Aphrodite, Beyoncé, or the cutie-next-door. We meet the Trickster in Coyote, Robin Hood, Pippi Longstocking, or mischievous trick or treaters.
Each participant in the course will use their preferred techniques and talents to create a unique deck of cards. Collage, pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, photography, digital tools, printmaking or any other visual medium will do--even tiny shadow boxes in castoff candy tins would make fine 3D cards.
We are free to create our decks based on an existing series, such as the Tarot, I Ching, or zodiac. We may choose to work with more personal material, creating cards that represent archetypal milestones or figures in our autobiography; portraits of our inner "parts" or subpersonalities; or even a series of power objects we have owned or used. Your deck may be linked with a specific intention: letting go, healing, accessing guidance, etc. The only constraints to our work will be:
We will each determine a use for our deck, whether for divination, inner guidance, altar work, or as objects of meditation.
We will be sharing our inner process as we work with powerful symbols connected to personal stories. We agree to keep these conversations confidential within our group.
Several oracle decks, including some made for personal use, will be examined in order to spark ideas. Short periods of in-class journaling, sketching, or brainstorming will aid our deck creation, but students should expect to set aside at least 2-4 hours per week between classes to work on and complete their cards in time for presentation during the final class.
Each student should own a copy of The Book Of Symbols: Reflections On Archetypal Images published by (ARAS), Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism.
In preparation for the first class, plan to read up a bit on the basics of archetypes. You can use Wikipedia or other online resources or you can geek out on Carl Jung's Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, but go for a gut-level grasp, not a mental one.
Six Thursdays • January 14 — February 18, 2021 • 6-8 p.m. • via Zoom
In this course, each participant will create a unique deck of cards based on archetypes and intended for personal use.
What are archetypes? Carl Jung described them as universal symbols that reach deep into humanity's collective unconscious. Emerging from the mists of instinct and even our animal selves, they are frequently encountered in dreams, art, literature, film, and everyday life. Archetypes are easily recognizable for their enduring ability to fascinate and communicate. We encounter the Father archetype in Mufasa (The Lion King), Yahweh, Pa Ingalls, and our own dads. Beauty takes shape as Aphrodite, Beyoncé, or the cutie-next-door. We meet the Trickster in Coyote, Robin Hood, Pippi Longstocking, or mischievous trick or treaters.
Each participant in the course will use their preferred techniques and talents to create a unique deck of cards. Collage, pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, photography, digital tools, printmaking or any other visual medium will do--even tiny shadow boxes in castoff candy tins would make fine 3D cards.
We are free to create our decks based on an existing series, such as the Tarot, I Ching, or zodiac. We may choose to work with more personal material, creating cards that represent archetypal milestones or figures in our autobiography; portraits of our inner "parts" or subpersonalities; or even a series of power objects we have owned or used. Your deck may be linked with a specific intention: letting go, healing, accessing guidance, etc. The only constraints to our work will be:
- Each deck must be based on personal interpretations of universal, archetypal symbols.
- Each deck must form a series or cycle with personal meaning to you.
- We will create finished decks of 12-50 cards for presentation to the group during our last class. The size, medium, and level of detail is up to you. Stick figures can work if you feel you can't draw! If there are some cards too private to show the group, that's fine.
We will each determine a use for our deck, whether for divination, inner guidance, altar work, or as objects of meditation.
We will be sharing our inner process as we work with powerful symbols connected to personal stories. We agree to keep these conversations confidential within our group.
Several oracle decks, including some made for personal use, will be examined in order to spark ideas. Short periods of in-class journaling, sketching, or brainstorming will aid our deck creation, but students should expect to set aside at least 2-4 hours per week between classes to work on and complete their cards in time for presentation during the final class.
Each student should own a copy of The Book Of Symbols: Reflections On Archetypal Images published by (ARAS), Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism.
In preparation for the first class, plan to read up a bit on the basics of archetypes. You can use Wikipedia or other online resources or you can geek out on Carl Jung's Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, but go for a gut-level grasp, not a mental one.