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Dear friends , I hope this finds you well and in good spirits !!!!
I am writing to inform you that I will be traveling to Haiti on March 31st for one month to offer my assistance in the current crisis there. I am aiming to raise $6000 dollars in the next 2 weeks to get this project off the ground. The goal of the project is to help Haitian artist's by establishing an online gallery of their work for sale.
You can help by purchasing a piece from our gallery featuring over 500 pieces of Haitian art or by making a donation to the project. The sale of these pieces will directly help the artists and their families.


Please contact me if you are interested in the project and want to get involved. Thank you for your generosity and support
many blessings


Sincerely


Jayson Fann , Dir. Big Sur Spirit Gardens
831-238-1056
Jayson@bigsurspiritgarden.com
Online Haitian Art Gallery

http://bigsurspiritgarden.com/Spirit_Garden_/Haitian_Arts_Fundraiser.html


make a donation by following the  link above

or by mail address below.


make donations payable to or
Big Sur Spirit Garden
Po Box 91
Big Sur, Cal. 93920


April in the Spirit Garden

Spirit Garden Artist in Residence

Wawi Amasha

Wawi Amasha is among an emerging generation of Kenyan artists working and living in the USA. She will be exhibiting and painting in the Spirit Garden for the entire month of April. Come by and meet her and see her work. She draws inspiration from her home country. Themes of her work mirrors varied aspects of Kenyan culture. She was born and raised by her grandmother in a small village in Embu district, about 220 miles from Nairobi, Kenya.

If you look carefully, you will find that she places a giraffe in most of her paintings. She does this in honor of her grandfather whose name "Ndwiga" in her language means giraffe.


Now Residing in Santa Monica, California, Wawi has devoted her life to her passion. She already has been featured in SOUL MAGAZINE, MIMI MAGAZINE and AFRICAN COLOURS.NET as one of the rising stars in the Africa Art scene. www.wawiamasha.com

Amasha wants to discover and explore different mediums in her efforts to provide inspiring art to her already growing fan base. But more importantly, she seeks to create art that will inspire people. She wants her art to promote Love, Peace, and unity for all humanity.

"The world is filled with so much pain and suffering, and I believe Art is supposed to heal us" -

Wawi Amasha

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Sunday April 11th 10:00 - 4:00

Exhibiting Artist in the Garden



Sironka of the Massai tribe of Kenya

Sironka received a Fulbright Award in 2000-01 to teach Batik Art workshops and Maasai Culture in the US and Europe. His Batiks and murals have been featured in museums, galleries and lodges throughout Kenya and South Africa. Sironka will be displaying his work for sale in the garden as well as demonstrating  Massai batik techniques.


 





The Massai, known as the 'people of cattle', are nilotic pastoralists who are found in the Rift valley plains of East Africa.  A Maasai by birth and tribe, Sironka was born in Narok, Kenya, and lives in the Ngong Hills region of the Kenyan Highlands. Sironka is a skilled artist and designer who creates beautiful color images through the mediums of Batiks and murals. Sironka's art interweaves the Maasai culture into his images as he portrays his people's culture truthfully, with dignity and beauty.



 C h r i s t y    H e n g s t

  Birds

on display in the Spirit Garden


"Birds in the Park" is a touring project, which involves the temporary installation of thirty to sixty porcelain birdlike forms on the ground.

 
Pecking around randomly, they might be taken for pigeons. They are, in a sense, carrier pigeons, as the forms carry images, text, and other documents, which have been printed with cobalt blue and fired into the surface.  The message they bear is an exploration of the beautiful and the horrible side by side. Originating with the shock and dismay I felt as the US government began the war with Iraq, and expanding to consider the phenomenon of war in general, the questions posed by the birds are about the humanness of us all.  How we are connected, and also the unthinkable ways in which that bond is disregarded.

    This work draws on years of experimentation with silk-screen printing onto clay.   I create the silk screens from photographs and documents, and use them to apply the image and text onto wet porcelain.  While the clay is still  flexible, I form the birds, and eventually fire them at a very high temperature.

    The project began in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where in the spring of 2009 the birds landed in about thirty locations; places like the farmer's market, City Hall, various parks, cafes and libraries.  Later, the birds began to fly farther afield, landing at places along the coast of California, in Central Park, NY, in a sculpture garden in New Orleans, at a University Plaza in Germany, in front of Chartres Cathedral in France, and even migrating so far as the Galapagos islands.  

 

 For past bird updates go to:  www.birdsinthepark.blogspot.com


         and much more...to be updated soon !!!!

 

April 2010

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