Ananda Ashram Center for Sacred Art, Monroe, NY.
Lynne [Niradhara] outside the studio
NISDA, Nantucket Island, MA
My 1930s Singer Sewing Machine
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professional work
2005 - 2006 - Ananda Ashram, resident staff member, founder and facilitator of the Center for Sacred Art.
2002 - 2003 - FLUX artspace, NYC - initiated Idiosyncratic Eye Digital Art Quilt project with East Harlem Center and Children's Aid Society
1998 – 2002 Jubilee Art Ministry; facilitating spiritual art programs for women in prison at MCI-Framingham; including One Body Covered by Grace Quilt as community art project for inmates.
2002 - Peace Rehab Center of Nepal - art/ dinner fundraiser on Nantucket -- under the Social Service Act of Nepal PRC conducts education programs incl 6 mo to 1 yr courses in sewing for regions vulnerable to girl trafficking -
2001 - November - Health and Spirituality Conference with Thomas Moore at First Congregational Church Nantucket, Theraputic Art Session builiding portable shrines - rated highest of all 9 contributing therapist sessions
2000 - January - St Paul's Episcopalian Church of Nantucket - Labrynth building team, painter
1992 – 2002 Nantucket Island School for Design and the Arts, faculty; Textile Techniques, Expressive Art Quilt, Nature Quilt, Storytelling Quilt, Portrait Quilt, Mosaics; full season, and week long intensives
2001 – Grant sponsored by Sheriff Bretshneider to work with youth at risk for the purpose of affirming community art for public spaces on Nantucket beginning in August
2000-2002 – Nantucket Community School, faculty; mixed media art
2001-2002 – Artists Association of Nantucket, faculty; storytelling with salvage arts
2000 - 2001 Nantucket Island Community Wellness Fair, educator on art as therapy and spiritual expression
1997 – 1999 Albert G. Brock Center Noonday Lecture Series
1996 – 1999 Maria Mitchell Association Lecture Series; Simultaneous Realities and Jubilee themes
1997 – MA Quilt Documentation Project sponsored by Nantucket Historical Association
1997 – facilitated Nantucket Community Quilt for auction at Artists Assoc of Nantucket for Nantucket Arts Alliance and the Cultural Council for the Arts
1995 – 1996 James Hunt Barker Gallery special lectures/ coffee hour Meet the Artist Series
1995 – Murray Camp Quilt in connection with Maria Mitchell Library and the Nantucket Atheneum
1993 - 1994 Nantucket Teen Center special projects facilitator: Territorial Markings
1993 – Nantucket Elderhostel art - quilt instructor
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