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Michele
Cassou is the
founder of an original approach to creative painting as a tool
for self-discovery. She is known internationally for her ground-breaking
work in exploring the spiritual dimensions of the creative process.
She is the co-founder of The Painting Experience in San Francisco
and has been teaching for over 30 years. Her work has proved
to be of interest to a wide range of disciplines including art,
psychology, education, therapy and meditative practices. Michele
Cassou is author of the book Life, Paint and Passion and Point
Zero Creativity Without Limits.
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Sas
Colby has been teaching
and exhibiting art for more than thirty years. Her art encompasses
diverse materials and forms, including textiles, photography and
painting. She is a pioneer in the artist’s book genre and
a spirited teacher. Sas’s classes foster discovery, experimentation
and unconventional approaches to making art. Sas Colby’s
art work is in the collection of the Australian National Gallery,
Canberra; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; and The Oakland Museum,
among others. She is represented by the Fenix Gallery in Taos.
You can see her artwork on-line at www.sascolby.com |
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Natalie
Goldberg is the author of ten books, including
Writing Down the Bones, which has sold over one million copies
and had been translated into twelve languages. She has also written
the beloved Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America, a memoir
about her Zen teacher. |
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Marcia
Rose is the founding and guiding teacher of The
Mountain Hermitage and founding teacher of Taos Mountain Sangha.
She has been studying and practicing the Buddha’s teachings
and meditation with Asian and Western teachers since 1970, primarily
in the Theravada-Vipassana (Path of the Elders) tradition. Her
own teaching reflects a clear influence from the Burmese Mahasi
Vipassana and the Pa Auk Forest Monastery lineages. She has also
studied and practiced in the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition with Tulku
Urgyen Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche.
Marcia was resident teacher for staff at the Insight Meditation
Society (IMS) in Barre, MA from 1991 to 1995. She is sometimes
one of the teachers for the annual three-month retreat at IMS,
and is currently on the teacher council and a visiting teacher
at The Forest Refuge in Barre, MA. Marcia also offers Vipassana
and Metta retreats in other U.S. and international venues, and
is dedicated to offering these ancient and timeless teachings
in ways that make them accessible and authentic for our contemporary
culture. |
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Harvey
Stein has taught at most of the major workshops
in the United States and has led workshops in Europe, South America
and Mexico since 1994. Besides currently teaching at the International
Center of Photography in New York City, he has been on the faculty
of the Rochester Institute of Technology, the New School University,
Drew University and Bridgeport University. He is the author of four
photographic books, his newest, Movimento: Glimpses of Italian Street
Life, was published in December, 2006. He has had 70 one-person
exhibits and has been in more than 135 group shows. His work is
in over 45 public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago,
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the
Denver Museum of Art, the Portland (OR) Museum of Art and the New
Orleans Museum of Art. He has traveled extensively throughout the
American Southwest in the past thirteen years. See some of Harvey’s
photography at his website, www.harveysteinphoto.com |
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