Connections is a public project produced for the Southern California Children’s Museum by the nonprofit Drawing Together in collaboration with four artists: Karen Godfrey and Mary Duman from Wrightwood and Amy Bauer and Emily Gallagher from Los Angeles. The exhibit and workshops aim to explore our connection to each other and the planet and address social isolation. Research has found that nearby nature can help us feel connected by offering socially isolated people an alternative way of feeling connected and overcoming the effect of low social connectedness.
Join Southern California Children’s Museum for several workshops and an exhibit that brings nature, imagination, and connection for little ones together! This project is made possible by an Impact Grant from the California Arts Council, a state granting agency.
Workshop: April 27th at 11:30 – Interconnected Wonders
The Interconnected Wonders workshop offers cooperative activities to experience a felt sense of our place in the larger web of life on Earth. Children will be invited to connect through a community connection action and imaginative play dress-up activity.
Karen Godfrey: As a mixed media artist, I am richly inspired and intrigued by the raw wild beauty inherent in the immense and minute wonders of Life itself. I am informed by the vast sensuality of the rhythmic seasons and cycle of Nature: The Spiral Dance of Birth, Life, Death, and Rebirth.
Amy Bauer: A lifelong maker, Amy Bauer is an artist, designer, educator, creator of Fun-A-Day-LA, and Creative Corps Grantee 23-24. Amy explores environmental themes and ties them into an investigation of the likenesses and frictions between her urban life and her folk art aesthetic.
Emily Gallagher: Emily Gallagher is a soprano and community-based artist living in Los Angeles. She has performed in the United States and Europe and works to unite communities through the arts through programming that is accessible and engaging for a diverse audience.
Mary Duman: Mary Duman is an experienced ceramics instructor and artist for over 30 years, who currently serves as a resident artist at Cobb Mountain Art and Ecology. Drawing inspiration from nature, ancient Celtic symbols, and the Wheel of the Year, her sculptures act as portals to ancestral wisdom.
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