Altars of Creativity: Maintaining a Sacred Relationship with Your Arts Practice / Workshop


Start Date / Time: October 10, 2023 5:00 pm

End Date / Time: October 10, 2023 6:00 pm

Venue: Online Via Zoom

Price: Free with Registration

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About This Workshop
Come join poet, Lisbeth White as we kick-off Artist Trust’s 2023 Mental Health & Wellness month. This experimental journaling workshop will offer space, prompts, and tools to reconnect with and sustain your unique relationship to your creative work. Get ready to ease into our time together with guided meditation. Afterwards, Lisbeth will talk through ways we can feel grounded in our own creative work. This workshop is for artists of all disciplines and career stages.

Participants will need:

  • Paper (a journal or sketchbook), writing/drawing materials
  • A space that feels comfortable and private

About the Instructor

Lisbeth White is a writer and ritualist living on S’klallam and Chimacum lands near Port Townsend, WA. Her writing ethos orients at the sensual and sociopolitical intersections of healing, ancestry, mythopoetics, and connection to the natural world. Her debut poetry collection, American Sycamore (Perugia Press) was Finalist for the 2023 First Horizon Book Award. She is co-editor, along with Tamiko Beyer and Destiny Hemphill, of the anthology Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power (North Atlantic Books), and a founding member of the Red Thread Writers Collective, supporting PGM writers in rural Washington state.

About Artist Trust 
Artist Trust is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support and encourage artists working in all disciplines to enrich community life throughout Washington State. Since its founding in 1986, Artist Trust has invested over $10 million in individual artists through grant programs and provides a comprehensive suite of professional development training and resources to help artists achieve their career goals. Learn more at artisttrust.org.

Have Questions?
Email Program Manager Grace Nakahara.


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