Instructor Profile:

Laura Atkinson has explored the links between art, visual imagery, and the symbolic realities of the dream state for many years. After a successful career as a photojournalist and computer specialist, she went on to study at Rhode Island School of Design and has instructed workshops through The Learning Connection in Providence and at the Warwick Museum of Art.  Her personal artwork has been showcased on both coasts of the United States. She brings with her exuberance for the beauty of light, interplay, form and design.  Laura is genuinely dedicated to inspiring and supporting the inner creativity of others though various mediums and methods of art-making.

Workshops for Children:

• Surrealist Techniques

• Learn to Draw

• Abstract Art for Beginners

• Recycled Sculpture

• Silk Painting

• X-treme Silk (Intermediate - in development)

• Creative Breath - Painting without a Brush

• Altered Art

Day and Evening Workshops for Adults:

• Tangerine Dreams - The Energy of Color
  (Co-instructed with Karen Feldman of Urban Eden)

• Silk Painting (Beginners)

• Silk Painting (Intermediate)

• Kirlian Photography

30/30 Dream Art Journaling

The 30/30 Dream Journal Technique is a method of combining traditional text journaling with visual images. The intention of this technique is that it can be used by both artists and non-artists in a creative way to use the images that appear in dreams.

Although artwork is a major component of this process, you do not need to be a professional artist to use this technique.  It is very important to realize that this is a process of personal discovery.  No one will be critiqued for artistic merit.  Every one us is creative in some fashion: whether it is finding a creative solution to a work problem, juggling a busy home life, scrap booking, writing, drawing, painting cooking…it is all part of the creative process. 

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