Wednesday, March 2, 2005 - 4:12 AM CST

Proposal for Workshop "Dream Sculpture"

Presenter: Tara Arlene Innmon Phone: (day and night): 612-376-7779

Address: 2016 S. 27th St.

Minneapolis, MN 55406

Co-Presenter: Joy Purchase Phone: (day and night):

TITLE OF WORKSHOP: Dream Sculpture

TYPE OF WORKSHOP: Experiential

TYPE OF AUDIENCE: Adults, no background necessary

ABSTRACT OF WORKSHOP TOPIC: Dreams use symbols and stories to bring out our deepest desires and fears. The purpose of this workshop is to bring out and express the deep desires and knowledge about ourselves from the creative unconscious which connects us to our spiritual selves. The workshop is a combination of the artist's sharing slides and telling dream stories and the participants doing movement meditation and working with clay. The workshop ends with the participants sharing their stories from their clay pieces.

Biographical INFORMATION: Tara Arlene Innmon: Writer, past Visual artist and a performance artist, student at Hamline University in the MFA program in creative writing. She is a disabled woman, a past Registered occupational therapist. She has taken many workshops and has taken pieces from those to crate this workshop, including having worked with a Native American art therapist using this process to tell co-creation stories. She has presented this workshop at churches, a camp, a conference of Blind people, The Spiritual Frontiers conference, The Woman's Spirituality Conference, and the VSA International Conference in LA.

Co-presenter: Joy Purchase

DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP: "DREAM SCULPTURE"

20 minutes: Tara will share her "dream" slides and stories that express the transitions and healing she has done as a person going blind, as an incest survivor, and as a searcher for spiritual wholeness.

10 minutes: Guided meditation and movement: Starting with silence and awareness of breathing, participants will begin a standing guided meditation. From the inner focus of silence, participants will begin to move arms, hands, etc. (Not large movements around the room.)

20 minutes: Keeping this focus, participants will continue the movement to shape and sculpt clay into an art object/sculpture which will be a representation of that inner-directed movement.

20 minutes: Participants will be guided in sharing their stories that grow out of the process of working in the clay

5 minutes: Clean-up

Workshop Session Preference:

AVP and Room Requirements:

1. Slide projector and screen

2. Room without windows

3. Chairs or desks that can be moved to face screen and then be put in a circle. If using chairs will need a table to work on.

4. A room with water in the room or a bathroom nearby for cleaning up

Presenter will provide non-toxic clay and newspaper