ALW Atelier
Art Engagements
Our art engagements take place online, at your site or at a local museum. Book us for a private program. Art experience is welcome but not necessary.
The Art of Seeing
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The Essential Detail Workshop
We look but how much do we see? Our perception is efficient and fast. Yet its very speed can blind us to the crucial details of our lives. In our workshop, you learn to slow down your perception to access subtle yet essential details. You energize your vision and uncover new ways of seeing.
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The Color Workshop
You finetune your ability to perceive color and understand its inner workings through guided interactions with masterpieces from the world’s great collections and a set of perceptual-art exercises. You explore, too, the emotional tenor of color and its interpretive associations while further cultivating your own creative voice.
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Pattern Play
Underlying what we see are essential geometries. As you gain a reading on such structural patterns, you access a big picture view,. From there, you consider, with greater ease, the interrelationship of all the parts. Such a holistic perspective provides you with tools for heightened creative thinking.
Courting the Imagination
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Dream Haikus
A haiku is an unrhymed poem consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. The Dream Haiku workshop invites you to connect to one of your dreams and use it as a source of inspiration to write a series of haikus. Dream Haikus brings greater awareness to your dreams, while the dream provides a poetic path to your writing.
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The Borgesian Library
The Borgesian Library workshop is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “The Library of Babel.” Borges describes a library that is infinite, with books representing every possible permutation of the alphabet. In our workshop, which also discusses some of the world’s greatest libraries, you imagine your own fictional library,
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Impossible Architecture
What would an underwater hospital look like? A floating zoo? In our Impossible Architecture workshop, you discover off-the-beaten-track buildings, which serve as sources of inspiration help you to enlarge your thinking. You let go of the bounds of reality and play at imagining the impossible.
Perceptual Wellbeing
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Embodied Seing
Connecting to our senses helps us gain a greater awareness of our bodies and feel more grounded. In our Embodied Seeing workshop, you access strategies to more easily embrace your five senses from your sense of touch to that of smell. You then allow for a healing sync with your body.
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The Search for the Center
What is at the center? Of ourselves? Of our lives? Of what we see? Through an exploration of selected artworks and hands-on creative exercises, you increase your capacity to identify centers in both your interior and exterior realities. Your heightened identification of centers helps you move out of peripheral wonderings towards your most essential dreams.
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The Contemplation Room
Through a guided exploration of a selection of the world’s masterpieces. you access artistic strategies to resolve the inherent tensions between contrasting forces in your vision. Such resolutions serve to enhance experiences of harmony and wellbeing.