Phone: 615.460.1161
2305 12th Ave. S.; Nashville, TN 37204
Mail: PO Box 121976; Nashville, TN 37212
2305 12th Ave. S.; Nashville, TN 37204
Mail: PO Box 121976; Nashville, TN 37212
Current & Upcoming Classes
Weekly Classes | ||
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Class Name
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Intermediate & Advanced Drawing Creative Arts Discovery and Practice - Winter 2012 Shifting Sands, Divining Balance Creative Arts Discovery and Practice - Spring 2012 The Visual Poem Artistic Explorations with Ancient Geometry Mixed Media Printmaking & Marbling |
Date
Wednesdays, Jan 11 - Feb 29 (8 Weeks) Wednesdays, Jan 11 - Feb 29 (8 Weeks) Thursdays, Jan 19 - Feb 23 (6 Weeks) Tuesdays, March 6 - 27 (4 Weeks) Thursdays, March 29 - May 3 (6 Weeks) Wednesdays, April 4 - 25 (4 Weeks) Tuesdays, May 1 - 22 (4 Weeks) Thursdays, May 3, 10, 17, June 7 (4 Weeks) |
Cost
$295 (Co-op $250) $295 (Co-op $250) $325/295 (Co-op 275/250) $100 (Co-op $85) $325/295 (Co-op 275/250) $195 (Co-op $170) $175 (Co-op $150) $225 (Co-op $190) |
Workshops | ||
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Date
Sunday, February 26, 1 - 6 pm Saturday, March 31, 10 am - 2 pm |
Cost
$75 (Co-op $65) $40 (Co-op $30) |
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Immersion Programs | ||
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Class Name
Total Engagement: Long Circle Artist Group |
Date
Feb 10-12, Mar 2-4, Apr 20-22, May 18-20 |
Cost
$365 ($310 Co-op) |
Before registering for any class or workshop,
please read our cancellation policy.
CANCELLATION POLICY
You may request a refund or credit (minus a non-refundable 10% cancellation fee) up to seven (7) days prior to the scheduled date of the class or workshop. No credit or refund is available after that date. Credits and refunds are also unavailable if you do not show up or if you leave an event early for any reason.
Please Note: Payment for all classes and workshops is due seven business days before date of the event. We cannot guarantee placement in a class or workshop until payment has been received. Tuition may be paid via PayPal (registration@eArtandSoul.com) or by mailing a check or money order to Art & Soul, PO Box 121976, Nashville, TN 37212.
Creative Arts Discovery and Practice - Winter 2012
Is your artist self longing for nourishment? Would you like to have a regular time set aside each week for your art? This class serves both beginners and ongoing students, providing a weekly space to practice your art, explore new territory and discover new possibilities.
Learn to trust your hands and your intuition as you put brush to paper, immerse your fingers in clay and arrange fabric, feathers and stone. For those interested in exploring media and techniques, demonstrations are offered in charcoal, pastels, tempera, acrylic, collage, watercolor, and intuitive play. Emphasis is given to students finding their own way in an inviting and non-judgmental atmosphere. Group discussions and dialogues with Arunima and Pat support your process.
Time & Date
Thursday mornings - taught by Arunima Orr & Pat Halper
January 19 - February 23 (6 weeks)
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Fee
$325 (Co-op $275)
Thursday evenings - taught by Pat Halper & Arunima Orr
January 19 - February 23 (6 weeks)
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Fee
$295 (Co-op $250)
Registration Deadline
Sunday, January 15
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Arunima:
Arunima Orr—painter, writer, performance artist and teacher—is founder and director of Art & Soul, a studio opened in 1988 and dedicated to artistic growth, creative development and healing and transformation through the arts.
About Pat:
Pat Halper has been playing and exploring at Art & Soul for seven years. In 2009, she received her Art & Soul Teacher certification after studying with founder, Arunima Orr. She is grateful for days spent with color, shapes and experimentation, and hopes to help others experience the magic she has found at Art & Soul.
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Creative Arts Discovery and Practice - Spring 2012
Is your artist self longing for nourishment? Would you like to have a regular time set aside each week for your art? This class serves both beginners and ongoing students, providing a weekly space to practice your art, explore new territory and discover new possibilities.
Learn to trust your hands and your intuition as you put brush to paper, immerse your fingers in clay and arrange fabric, feathers and stone. For those interested in exploring media and techniques, demonstrations are offered in charcoal, pastels, tempera, acrylic, collage, watercolor, and intuitive play. Emphasis is given to students finding their own way in an inviting and non-judgmental atmosphere. Group discussions and dialogues with Arunima and Pat support your process.
Time & Date
Thursday mornings - taught by Arunima Orr & Pat Halper
March 29 - May 3 (6 weeks)
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Fee
$325 (Co-op $275)
Thursday evenings - taught by Pat Halper & Arunima Orr
March 29 - May 3 (6 weeks)
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Fee
$295 (Co-op $250)
Registration Deadline
Sunday, March 25
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Arunima:
Arunima Orr—painter, writer, performance artist and teacher—is founder and director of Art & Soul, a studio opened in 1988 and dedicated to artistic growth, creative development and healing and transformation through the arts.
About Pat:
Pat Halper has been playing and exploring at Art & Soul for seven years. In 2009, she received her Art & Soul Teacher certification after studying with founder, Arunima Orr. She is grateful for days spent with color, shapes and experimentation, and hopes to help others experience the magic she has found at Art & Soul.
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Authentic Movement Workshop
taught by Arunima Orr
Does your body long to move freely from within, without judgment or inhibition? Authentic Movement is a practice that creates a safe and sacred space for the body to express itself and reveal its deepest knowing. Explorations in artmaking, writing and play support and ground this powerful experience. A nourishing connection with self and others occurs as we share this journey with fellow seekers in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect.
Time & Date
Sunday, February 26, 1 - 6 pm
Fee
$75 (Co-op $65)
Registration Deadline
Thursday, February 23
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Arunima:
Arunima Orr—painter, writer, performance artist and teacher—is founder and director of Art & Soul, a studio opened in 1988 and dedicated to artistic growth, creative development and healing and transformation through the arts.
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Total Engagement: The Long Circle Artist Group
taught by Arunima Orr
If you’re going to be an artist, all life is your subject. All your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see what you have. Art is total engagement.
~ Ben Shahn
The Long Circle Artist Group (LCAG) is an advanced group that exists to serve those who have demonstrated a commitment to their art life, and who wish to develop the practices, techniques, inner connections, vision, artistry and hardiness that will lead to creating works of art over time. Our artists are writers, musicians and storytellers, photographers and multimedia performers as well as visual artists in all visual arts media—drawing, painting, collage, clay and three-dimensional play and installation.
The LCAG meets on three-day weekends. In order to be a member of the LCAG, you must attend two of the four weekends scheduled in a session. You may attend all weekends, space permitting.
Prerequisite: Creative Arts Practice or Year-Long and approval of instructor.
Time & Date
February 10-12, March 2-4, April 20-22, May 18-20
Fee
Tuition: $365 ($310 Co-op) per weekend; discounted rate of $285 per weekend for co-op members attending 3 or more weekends.
Registration Deadline
One week before each session.
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Arunima:
Arunima Orr—painter, writer, performance artist and teacher—is founder and director of Art & Soul, a studio opened in 1988 and dedicated to artistic growth, creative development and healing and transformation through the arts.
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
taught by Deanie French
Drawing is a language as important as reading, but most people never learn it because of the bias in our society toward left-brain learning and processing. Drawing is our right-brain language, the balance to our left-brain verbal skills. Drawing is just as complex and sophisticated. It simply utilizes the gifts of the other side of our brain.
In this class, we will practice many right-brain exercises, based on the work of Betty Edwards, that will "shift" us into the right brain, which is the visual, spatial, concrete, relational, holistic part of the brain. Once there, drawing is a natural, flowing process. All humans possess the capacity to draw. It's about learning how to see and letting your hand follow your eye. We will also explore perspective, shading, proportion, and composition.
By the end of eight weeks, not only will you be amazed at your drawings,but you will also experience a sense of joy, empowerment and confidence that comes with meeting a challenge and acquiring new skills.
For beginning and intermediate students. No drawing experience necessary.
Time & Date
Wednesdays, January 11 - February 29 (8 weeks)
9:30 am - 12 noon
Fee
$295 (Co-op $250); additional fee for model TBA
Registration Deadline
Sunday, January 8
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Deanie:
Deanie French has been drawing and painting since early childhood. She holds a degree in Art Education from Rhode Island School of Design, and has taught for many years at Art & Soul, as well as being a co-op member. One of her favorite things is drawing people.
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Intermediate & Advanced Drawing
taught by Deanie French
“When we draw each precious object in life – cabbage, tree, stone, cup – we become intimate with the world and know it in a new way.”
~ Arunima Orr
This class will build on our previous exploration of contour, gesture, positive/negative shapes, perspective, light and shadow.
We will have an opportunity to create our own set-ups, work from the model, portraits, experiment with other media, work with scale ... including large scale drawings.
Prerequisite: previous drawing experience or familiarity with Betty Edwards' course Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain.
Time & Date
Wednesdays, January 11 - February 29 (8 weeks)
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Fee
$295 (Co-op $250) plus $30 model fee for 3 sessions (included in registration)
Registration Deadline
Sunday, January 8
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Deanie:
Deanie French has been drawing and painting since early childhood. She holds a degree in Art Education from Rhode Island School of Design, and has taught for many years at Art & Soul, as well as being a co-op member. One of her favorite things is drawing people.
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Shifting Sands, Divining Balance: movement, writing, and creative play
taught by Amanda Cantrell Roche
Being aware of and attentive to our center is vital in life. What keeps you balanced when all else is shifting around you? When do you need to take some risks and push yourself off balance?
Through movement, creative writing, and other reflective play we will traverse the terrain of centeredness, grounding, and unexpected trajectories. This journey toward deeper awareness supports the ability to sustain balance in both calm and stormy seas.
Time & Date
Tuesdays, March 6 - 27 (4 weeks)
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Fee
$100 (Co-op $85)
Registration Deadline
Sunday, March 4
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Amanda:
Amanda Cantrell Roche divides her time between dance, writing, mothering, activism and working as a Teaching Artist. Previous creative process/personal growth class series she has taught at Art & Soul include “Stoking the Fire” and “Filling the Cup”. Her alchemy is most powerful when she combines a trilogy of her deepest passions: dance, writing, and social justice. www.amandacroche.com
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Mixed Media Printmaking & Marbling
taught by Lesley Patterson-Marx
Students will create beautiful, abstract compositions through the aqueous printmaking medium better known as "paper marbling." Monoprint, collage, and polyester plate lithography will then be printed on top of the marbled compositions to create rich, layered imagery. The possibilities are endless for combining photographs, collage, and drawing into these works. This class is perfect for people with little or no printmaking experience, for seasoned printmakers who want to loosen up and work experimentally, or for those familiar with the techniques who need a refresher course.
Time & Date
Thursdays, May 3, 10, 17 & June 7 (4 weeks)
6:00 - 9:00 pm
Fee
$225 (Co-op $190); all supplies included
Registration Deadline
Sunday, April 29
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Lesley:
Lesley Patterson-Marx is a professional artist/printmaker who has exhibited work nationally and is featured in several publications. Lesley helped to found Plate Tone Printshop, a non-toxic, fine-art community print shop, and is a part-time instructor at University School of Nashville where she teaches book arts and printmaking.
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Artistic Explorations with Ancient Geometry (no math needed!)
taught by Noa Benamotz
"... the starting point of ancient geometric thought is not a network of intellectual definitions or abstractions, but instead a meditation upon a metaphysical unity, followed by an attempt to symbolize it visually."
~ Robert Lawlor, Sacred Geometry, Philosophy and Practice
Discover ancient visual practices from Greece, Egypt, India, China, Japan, Africa, and more. Explore the beauty and mystery of symmetry, simplicity, precision, and surprise through demonstration and hands-on play. Whether the experiences lead you to mystical or mathematical amazement, you will come away with techniques and “truths” often kept secret from all but the privileged few. And yet, anyone can do this; no math needed.
Time & Date
Tuesdays, May 1 - 22 (4 weeks)
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Fee
$175 (Co-op $150); optional materials fee, if you want to keep the tools: $10
Registration Deadline
Sunday, April 29
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Noa:
Noa Benamotz works with individuals of all ages. She helps honor and expand the natural potential for whole brain, whole person learning and being, by guiding and supporting a shift from fear to curiosity and from resistance to discovery in personal, professional, and academic realms. (www.MindfulLearningSolutions.com)
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wRites of Spring (a writing circle)
taught by Merrill Farnsworth with special guest Molly Felder
Long nights, cold toes, bare gray landscapes, hats, gloves, scarves and heavy coats - winter always yields to the luscious bloom of the rose and the tender flesh of the peach.
Just when long nights and chilly days are more than you can take, we’ll spend a few hours creating an ode to winter and embrace the poetry and prose of spring. Along with wordplay, imagery, and musical prompts from Merrill, special guest Molly Felder (vocalist and yoga teacher) will bring inspiring chants and poses into this writing circle. No previous writing or yoga experience necessary. All voices welcome! Wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring a sack lunch for a quick lunch break.
Time & Date
Saturday, March 31
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Fee
$40 (Co-op $30)
Registration Deadline
Sunday, March 25
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Merrill:
Born in Texas, Merrill was lared a poet in Sister Mary’s 6th grade classroom while living in Puerto Rico. Afro-Caribbean culture and Catholic mysticism followed her to South Carolina and then to Tennessee where she now works, writes and paints. Her collection of stories and paintings, Jezebel’s got the Blues ... and other works of imagination (slated to be published in 2012) was inspired by practices Merrill brings into her writing circles. (www.writingcircle.org)
About Molly:
Also a daughter of Texas, Molly is known for the vocal magic she creates as part of the vocal duo Swan Dive. After moving from Tennessee to live within a community of artists and musicians Molly was drawn to yoga, which she now practices and teaches in New Harmony, Indiana. Recent highlights for Molly included performing with musical artists Over The Rhine and Lucy Wainwright Roche aboard The Santa Fe Super Chief and three weeks in an ashram immersing herself more deeply into the practice of yoga.
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The Visual Poem: A Poetry and Mixed Media Mashup
faciliated by Kelly Falzone
Great poems should not only be read and heard, but also SEEN, HELD, TASTED and TOUCHED! This four week workshop gives writers and art makers a method for pushing poetry (your own OR favorites by others) off the simple notebook page and into an expressive form. Under the guidance of poet and bookmaker Kelly Falzone, you'll play with language and explore the potential of poems as art ... then work on individual projects to embody and sculpt poems in 2-D or 3-D - such as mini-books, collage, garments, dolls, jewelry, painting, mobiles, sculpture, assemblage and beyond. Class limited to five to eight participants. All levels welcome.
For first class, students should bring a notebook and a water bottle. Students may need/ide to bring materials of their own for individual projects as the course progresses.
Time & Date
Wednesdays April 4 - 25 (4 weeks)
5:30 - 8:30 pm
Fee
$165 (Co-op $140) plus $30 supply fee
Registration Deadline
Sunday, April 1
If you do not wish to pay with PayPal please email registration@eartandsoul.com along with your contact information.
About Kelly:
Born with scissors in one hand and a pencil in the other, award-winning poet and teaching artist Kelly Falzone has always been up to somethin'. Her love for language, paper, books, glue, magic, rock skipping, naps, maps, car trips, campfires, comedy, hikes, and late-night anything has helped her create a sensual and textural life.
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