"The Masks of the Goddess" are going to the Women & Spirituality Conference

 I am deeply honored to be the Keynote Speaker at this years 

40th Annual Women & Spirituality Conference
October 4th, 5th & 6th 2024
St. Mary’s University Cascade Meadows Campus,
Rochester, MN
Over 36 workshops to choose from, vendors, exhibitors and more.  So many women’s voices sharing their wisdom, offering their healing, together in community since 1981.  Explore the beauty of the land, experience art in the Maker’s Space, find solace in the Chaplain’s Corner and so much more!
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Join us for a special Ceremonial Evening
with Community Ritual Theatre, Music & the Masks of the Goddess 
Friday October 4th, 2024 at 7:00 pm
at the Chateau Theater in Rochester, MN

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“What the audience saw when a dancer looked through the eyes of the mask was the Goddess Herself,  ancient and yet contemporary, looking across time, across the miles.”.......... Diane Darling, Director, Playwright

"Myth comes alive as it enters the cauldron of evolution,  drawing new life from the storytellers who shape it.”..........Elizabeth Fuller,   The Independent Eye Theater                                                                                                 

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A Shrine (and a new book) for Spider Woman

 And a new version of SPIDER WOMAN'S HANDS, available through Blurb.com.

"Tse Che Nake, Thought Woman, 

the Spider

is sitting in Her room now

thinking up a good story.

I'm telling you the story

She is thinking."

.......Pueblo Proverb

A Shrine for the Lost: The Sixth Extinction​

Funded by the Puffin Foundation, my SHRINE FOR THE LOST:  THE  6TH EXTINCTION was installed November 1, 2022 for Dia de los Muertos.     It includes a Book, four 8 foot tall wall-hung Panels, and an accompanying Video made in collaboration with Tucson artist Kathy Keler. I am very grateful to Kathy for the video especially.

It will be shown at the 2023 Parliament of World Religions, and it is my hope that the installation will travel to other venues as an educational Memorial. 

                                              https://youtu.be/5GE5kxwhxFw                                             

New Masks

"Quan Yin"  

"Ceres"

                                                                 Lada, Ukrainian Goddess

Asaye,  Eithiopia

Butterfly Woman

Selkie

flower Deva

Spider Woman

Joanna Hearing Music - for Joanna Brouk

My friend the composer Joanna Brouk always said that she heard music before she wrote it down.  This painting is in honor of her.......I miss her very much.  She passed away in 2017.

Masks of the Goddess Workshops Offered in 2021

 

"Our Lady of the Shards" - Mosaic Shrines (2018 - 2019)

                 

  The Series is  collectively called "Our Lady of the Shards" as they are meant to honor that which has been buried, lost or broken, and is now re-surfacing to the contemporary world to tell us the ancient stories that we need now.   Working in a pottery studio, I saw many beautiful broken pottery shards lying about, and I began to think of artists sometimes being "mythic archeologists", uncovering and resurrecting the lost and forgotten lives and wisdom of the past, piecing it together to find the shapes and reveal the mysteries.  Or it could be said that the Spirits of the past are rising from the broken shards, insistant on being heard and honored, because they are once again truly needed.

Shrine to the Ancient Midwives

"Our Lady of the Forgotten Midwives"  remembers the enduring love of Millenia of Ancestral Midwives, the women whose hands brought each generation into the world.   

The Memory Keeper II

"The Memory Keeper" was inspired by a song called "Water from Another Time", which speaks eloquently of the wisdom and gifts of the elderly, and of previous times, needed to nourish each new generation.    

Our Lady of the Desert Spring

Our Lady of the Desert Spring is a bas relief ceramic mosaic that is  a  personal Icon loosely inspired by traditional  Catholic Iconic imagery.  It is meant to be accompanied by a prayer or poem, in both English and Spanish, and is also designed to include a  mosaic "frame" or border as part of the presentation.  "Our Lady of the Desert Spring" also represents an invocation to the "Numina" or "spirit of place" of the desert. Water is the true life blood of the desert,  its most precious resource.  

Hecate

The Black Madonna

The Black Madonna reflects my personal sense that this widely archetypal image, a source of many pilgrimages to sacred places throughout Europe for thousands of years,  represents the Earth Mother, the dark rich soil that sustains us

The Bone Goddess

Old Masks

The Memory Keeper I

The Weaver

Shrine for the Forgotten Midwives

Our Lady of the Waters