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18. Your Life as a River: A Book Arts Memoir

  • Athenaeum Music & Arts Library 1008 Wall Street La Jolla, CA 92037 (map)

Victoria Rabinowe

Sunday, 10 AM–3 PM
March 17
(1 day, 5 total hours of instruction)
La Jolla Studio
$95/105

The flow of water through a river is like the pure life force that flows through our lives. Using the river as a metaphor for your life, you will fill a meandering concertina book structure with cascading collages and liquid language. Through guided writing prompts and found imagery, you will cut through the canyons of your mind, drift into the undercurrents of memory, and wade in the still pools of your soul.

MATERIALS: A sheet of marbled paper; one sheet of Canson Mi-Teintes art paper, 19" x 25” (or comparable paper) that can be folded into a book; scissors, bone folder, glue; magazines with dramatic photography of landscape, art, architecture, fashion, anthropology, and world culture. Optional: X-Acto knife and mat; collage papers.

Victoria Rabinowe is an American artist, author, international educator, and director of the Dreaming Arts Studio in Santa Fe. She has taught thousands of artists, writers, and educators around the world to create mythic memoirs and to understand the language of dreams through poetry, prose, and book arts. She studied at Harvard, Emerson, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her artwork has been exhibited across the globe. www.victoriadreams.com

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Masks optional. If you have a fever, cough, or flu-like symptoms, please stay home.

Please note that our policy may change as new guidelines and recommendations become available. The safety of our students, faculty, and staff continues to be our highest priority.

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