March 15 Arrival to 21 Departure, 2009
Sas Colby & Christine Hemp
The Artist and the Poet in Mexico
5 days of instructions and 6 nights lodging (based on double occupancy) price is $1500.

Magical realism, vivid color, and wild imagination will be the focus of this week with artist-poet combo Sas Colby and Christine Hemp.

In the sensual landscape of Puerto Vallarta, we will explore the cross-over delights of writing and visual art, discovering how they feed one another. With Mexico as our muse, we’ll adventure into wordplay and free associating between the visual and the verbal.

Christine and Sas have taught together in New Mexico, California and in Southern France. In this year’s workshop, Mexico will be the catalyst for creative interaction. Mindful that we are traveling light, participants will be instructed to put together an art kit of supplies so that each will complete a sketchbook and a notebook full of art and writing from our week together.

No experience is necessary—just an appetite for creating art. 

Our Bios
Poet and essayist Christine Hemp has had a life-long passion for visual art and often collaborates with painters and sculptors. For six years she was a staff art writer for THE Magazine, Santa Fe’s Magazine of the Arts. She has received a recent Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for Literature, a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant, the Donald Murray Award at UC Davis, a residency at Vermont Studio Center, and an Iowa Award for Literary Non-Fiction. The first chapter of her award-winning prose manuscript recently appeared in the Iowa Review. Hemp is featured periodically on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition reading her commentary and poetry.

Read more about Christine at
www.christinehemp.com
Sas Colby has more than thirty years of experience making, exhibiting and teaching art. Her nontraditional mixed media artwork has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. Her traveling survey exhibition, Sas Colby: Twenty Years of Book Thinking was exhibited in 3 venues in 1995. Colby has been a visiting artist in Australian universities and at schools throughout this country. She is one of fifteen artists featured in “Living the Creative Life”, by Rice Freeman-Zachery. She has inspired many with her ability to make the creative process come alive. Sas divides her time between Taos, New Mexico and her home in Berkeley, California.

See her art at
www.sascolby.com


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