Events and Publications
June & July 2025
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Thursday, June 26: Monica will be presenting for Volume 40 | PechaKucha Night Burlington!! Tickets are only $10 and will sell out, don't wait!
July 26: With a special thanks to Waterbury Arts Painting Peace: Community Ensō Painting and Medication will happen in Waterbury, VT in the coming months. See below for more details about the project.
Ongoing for June 2025: The Front cooperative gallery is celebrating it's 10 year anniversary with the Super Group Show #57 for Montpelier Art Walk. Every member ever has been invited to submit a piece and I've gratefully contributed. Love up this very special place so they can continue for another decade and more. Check out their website for ongoing events.
Postponed until June 2026: Ensō paintings will be on display at Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery for a pop-up exhibition in their front gallery!
July 26: With a special thanks to Waterbury Arts Painting Peace: Community Ensō Painting and Medication will happen in Waterbury, VT in the coming months. See below for more details about the project.
Ongoing for June 2025: The Front cooperative gallery is celebrating it's 10 year anniversary with the Super Group Show #57 for Montpelier Art Walk. Every member ever has been invited to submit a piece and I've gratefully contributed. Love up this very special place so they can continue for another decade and more. Check out their website for ongoing events.
Postponed until June 2026: Ensō paintings will be on display at Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery for a pop-up exhibition in their front gallery!
Painting Peace: Community Ensō Painting and Meditation
In Waterbury, VT, Saturday, July 26
The Painting Peace project will offers community members and visitors tourists an opportunity to explore this creative practice and participate in, hold space for and witness the painting of a large ensō.
There are many ways to cultivate peace in one’s self to then bring peace into the world. Painting a Zen circle, or ensō, is an ancient Japanese practice done with brush, ink and paper. It’s speculated that it was originally something a master did to witness their own mind or possibly a master painted one for a student to recognize the wordless expression of oneness. In contemporary times, Zen circles can be painted by anyone and have become a popular visual representation of peace.
This is an opportunity to pause and explore what's beyond everyday mental noise to cultivate the possibility for clarity.
There are many ways to cultivate peace in one’s self to then bring peace into the world. Painting a Zen circle, or ensō, is an ancient Japanese practice done with brush, ink and paper. It’s speculated that it was originally something a master did to witness their own mind or possibly a master painted one for a student to recognize the wordless expression of oneness. In contemporary times, Zen circles can be painted by anyone and have become a popular visual representation of peace.
This is an opportunity to pause and explore what's beyond everyday mental noise to cultivate the possibility for clarity.
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Montpelier Art Walk
August 2, 2024 T.W. Wood Gallery / Center For Arts And Learning Adult education classroom 46 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT |
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Project Details
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Event Schedule
4:30 - 5:30 Paint your own ensō or any spontaneous expression. With live music from special guest and local musician Ras Moshe Burnette from 5:00 - 5:30
5:30 - 5:45 Community meditation
5:45 - 6:15 Big ensō painting (community members can add paint to the paper before the circle is painted as a way of contributing their wishes for peace)
6:15 - 7:00 Paint your own ensō or any spontaneous expression
4:30 - 5:30 Paint your own ensō or any spontaneous expression. With live music from special guest and local musician Ras Moshe Burnette from 5:00 - 5:30
5:30 - 5:45 Community meditation
5:45 - 6:15 Big ensō painting (community members can add paint to the paper before the circle is painted as a way of contributing their wishes for peace)
6:15 - 7:00 Paint your own ensō or any spontaneous expression
Worcester Arts Festival
June 2024
Worcester, VT
June 2024
Worcester, VT
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