http://artheals.libsyn.com A Project of the Arts and Healing Network, www.artheals.org en 2007 marydaniel@artheals.org Liberated Syndication - libsyn.com podcasts@libsyn.com (Liberated Syndication) Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:54:00 GMT 180 Interviews with artists and organizations using creativity as a catalyst for positive change. A podcast for anyone who wants to learn more about how creativity can be a catalyst for positive change. It features interviews with artists and organizations who are using art to heal themselves, their community, and the planet. This podcast is a project of the Arts and Healing Network, an online resource at www.artheals.org. It is hosted by Britt Bravo. arts, healing Arts and Healing Network marydaniel@artheals.org Mary Daniel Hobson http://libsyn.com/podcasts/artheals/images/ahnlogo4.jpg http://artheals.libsyn.com No http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=360914#
She is currently using the Internet to perform residencies, "without the international travel that spews jet fuel over the earth's waters." Virtual Cities and Oceans of If, and the on-going Virtual Concerts address global warming and geo-political conflicts by demonstrating, analyzing and interpreting the local impact of global warming at international real world sites.

You can learn more about Rahmani's work at www.ghostnets.com.

]]> environmental Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:54:00 GMT http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=360914# Arts and Healing Network No http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=342303# Arts and Healing Networkâs Web Site Coordinator, Reverend Tristy Taylor also works with individuals and groups using dreamwork, art-making, coaching, spiritual direction and meditation.  She holds a Masters degree from the Arts & Consciousness program at John F. Kennedy University, and was ordained in January 2005 after studying at The Chaplaincy Institute for Art and Interfaith Ministry. Reverend Taylor is also the co-Founder of the Church of Craft.

You can find out more about Reverend Taylor's work by going to trismegista.com and reading her blog, Create with Spirit. 
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The Arts & Healing Network is very pleased to announce that Rachel is  also the 2008 recipient of the AHN Award which is given annually to an  artist who is truly making a difference in the world. Rachel's most recent project, Choral Earth, is an outstanding example of the power of art to catalyze community and heal the earth.

This podcast features a conversation between Rachel and Mary Daniel Hobson, Director of the Arts and Healing Network.  To learn more about Rachelâs work, visit www.SingYourPart.com

Photo Credit: Irene Young
 
]]> Award Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:55:00 GMT http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=312396# Arts and Healing Network No http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=295402# Susan Leibovitz Steinman salvages materials directly from community waste streams to construct public art installations that connect common daily experiences to broader social issues. Projects include conceptual sculpture gardens that meld art, ecology and community action.

She also co-founded the Women Environmental Artists Directory.

You can learn more about Susan's work on her web site, steinmanstudio.com
]]> environmental Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:08:00 GMT http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=295402# Arts and Healing Network No http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=273898# John Fox, Certified Poetry Therapist, is a poet and author of Finding What You Didn't Lose:  Expressing Your Truth and Creativity through Poem-Making and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making.

He teaches regularly at the collegiate and post graduate level as an adjunct faculty member of the California Institute of Integral Studies, John F. Kennedy University, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, the University of California, Santa Cruz and Holy Names University.

His work reaches people in hospitals, churches and retreat centers.

John is an international leader in the movement of poetry therapy as an expressive art and medicine. He served as president of National Association of Poetry Therapy in 2003- 2005. He received The National Association for Poetry Therapy's Distinguished Service Award in 1995 and since that time, he has served as a mentor/supervisor in the field of poetry therapy.
]]> writing Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:12:00 GMT http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=273898# Arts and Healing Network No http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=261263# Women of Wisdom and Power. She practices what she teaches and lives in a Magic Cottage in San Francisco. She has written many books including Make Your Creative Dreams REAL, Prosperity Pie, Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed and A Creative Companion. You can visit her website at www.planetsark.com. ]]> creativity Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:23:00 GMT http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=261263# Arts and Healing Network No http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=250243#
She is the recipient of awards and grants that include a Visual Arts Fellowship from the California Arts Council in 2003, the 2001 Potrero Nuevo Prize, Noetic Arts Program Community Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission Market Street Art in Transit Commission and 12 California Arts Council Artist in Residence Grants for community-based public art projects in the San Francisco Bay Area AIDS support service community and in the City of Berkeley homeless women and children services community.

She was the Artist in Residence at San Francisco Recycling & Disposal, Inc. in the summer of 2004. Her artwork has been featured in numerous publications including Women Artists in the American West, edited by Susan Ressler, Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society, by Lucy Lippard, Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists, edited by Moira Roth and Site to Sight, Mapping Bay Area Visual Culture, edited by Lydia Mathiews.

She is currently Assistant Professor of Drawing at the University of San Francisco and co-directs with Professor Richard Kamler Arts Outreach: The Artist as Citizen, a year-long program which seeks to embed student art practitioners into communities to collaboratively engage in community-based art. She has also taught as a member of the Core Faculty as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Department of Arts and Consciousness at John F. Kennedy University and California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco Art Institute, California State University at Hayward and the University of New Mexico as well as at several California Community Colleges.

She is a recognized leader in the field of community-based public art and is the founder of Positive Art in 1988, an art project in the Bay Area AIDS community continuing to provide a model for many communities internationally. She has lectured extensively in art colleges, universities, professional conferences, galleries and museums throughout the United States.]]> Visual Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:36:00 GMT http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=250243# Arts and Healing Network No http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=221942#
To celebrate the award's anniversary, we asked each of the award winners to tell us a little bit about their work today, and why they think art is healing or a catalyst for positive change.  Some of their stories are short, some are long, but all of them are inspiring examples of the healing power of art:

1998 Bill Witherspoon
1999 Marilyn Wood
2000 Betsy Damon
2001 Bonnie Ora Sherk
2002 Lily Yeh
2003 Patricia Johanson
2004 Bill Talen
2005 Tim Lefens
2006 Anna Halperin
2007 Lynne Hull

The Arts and Healing Podcast is a project of The Arts and Healing Network, an online resource for people interested in the healing potential of art.  You can join the Arts and Healing Network community at artheals.org and you can contact us anytime at ahn@artheals.org.
]]> Award Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:30:00 GMT http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=221942# art, healing Arts and Healing Network No http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208172# Art in Action, Youth Leadership Training. She conducts the dance, theater, and anti-oppression workshops at the Art in Action camps.  She is also the Art and Media Director for Reclaim the Future at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland.

Alli is a co-founder of Dancers Without Borders, Another World in Possible Road Shows, and the twelve-year-old Radical Performance Fest. She also co-founded Art and Revolution, a national movement of artist and activists. She has been a presenter on radio shows, at conferences, and has taught art activism across the U.S. and Canada. Her essays have appeared in Democratizing the Global Economy, Global Uprising, Voices from the WTO, The Political Edge and How to Stop the Next War Now. Currently, Alli is working to complete her book, Movements for Mass Movements.]]> Performance Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:29:00 GMT http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208172# No http://artheals.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208165# Mary Daniel Hobson is the Director of the Arts and Healing Network. At the age of 14, she became captivated by photography and has been pursuing it ever since. Trained as an art historian, her work draws deep inspiration from Surrealism, in particular the work of Dora Maar. Whether creating intimate collages or bottling photographs, her mixed media photography explores inner geography and layered experience. Her work has been widely exhibited and is in collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Albuquerque Museum. She is also advisory faculty at the Arts & Consciousness Department at JFK University in Berkeley, CA, offering courses in Transformative Arts and Photography. You can see Danny's art on her web site, marydanielhobson.com

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