2012 Workshops
This coming 2012 summer season we will be hosting the following workshops. -
1. PanTerra's Tao of Photography Workshop: June 7-10, 2012 Cancelled
2. Gluten-free Retreat 2012: July 24th & 25th, 2012
3. A Color-Making Workshop with Artist Tilke Elkins: Sept. 21-23, 2012
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PanTerra's Tao of Photography Workshop Cancelled
June 7 - 10, 2012
Chuck Feil is collaborating with well known photo-digital surrealist, Dale O'Dell, to present you with a workshop that combines the intuitive with post-processing. In other words, while improving your photography, you'll also be introduced to the new medium of 'digital art' to transform your imagery 'beyond photography' .
Part I: Developing a deep 'focus' with your personal photography. This will be accomplished with one-on-one critiques by Chuck and Dale in helping you to find your direction with your photography. You will be able to have work you bring as well as all the photography done on-location at the workshop critiqued. Critiques will be both technical and aesthetic; designed to help you choose your subject matter and approach to it, all the while making technical improvements to make the best imagery possible. Everyone will share their photography with the group for feedback on your personal goals. Part I is designed to enable the workshop student to make the best photo possible, discover your personal aesthetic and make imagery that is uniquely yours.
Part II: Post-Processing, From Photography to Digital Art. Get the most out of the images you create! Dale will demonstrate his deep knowledge of Adobe Photoshop™ in a user-friendly way allowing the student to transform their imagery from 'photography' to 'digital art.' Thanks to the Digital Revolution of photography a 'photograph' can be the starting point for post-processing digital art. Dale will introduce the student to concepts and thought-processes from other art-forms and show how they can be used in the digital environment to go 'beyond photography'.
Instructors:
Chuck Feil has been a professional photographer with forty-five years experience in editorial, corporate and advertising. He is also an author (of 11 aerial coffee table books), book publisher and co-owner of the PanTerra Gallery in Bisbee, Arizona. He has led the 'Tao of Photography' workshops for the past five years . www.panterragallery.com
Dale O'Dell is a digital artist and photographer with thirty years experience as a photographer, fine artist and educator. Dale received a degree in Photography from Sam Houston State University in 1982, has exhibited in over one-hundred exhibitions, and is published internationally. He has taught at universities and has led many workshops and seminars. He is the author of eleven photography books . www.dalephoto.com
What you will need to bring
You will need a digital camera. Any kind will do from an SLR to point & shoot. The ability for manual control and recording of a RAW file is helpful, but not necessary.
Any lenses you want, from wide-angle to telephoto.- A tripod.
A laptop computer with any version of Adobe Photoshop™ is especially useful for the 'digital art' portion of the workshop as well as editing your photos for critiques. A card-reader and thumbdrive for sharing photos is also needed.
A variety of clothing for warm days and cool nights. A positive attitude and a willingness to explore new visual ideas.
Workshop Fee: is $775.00 per person and includes lodging and meals. -
Deposit: $100.00 (non-refundable), due by April 1, 2012
Balance: $675.00 (refundable for medical reasons), due by May 1, 2012. -
Participants: will be limited to only 10
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Gluten-free Retreat 2012
July 24th & 25th, 2012
Beverly Omundson,CA, NTP, LLC
This event is for the person who is attempting to live a gluten free life. It is to inspire and give new ideas for food preparation.
There are many symptoms and situations that may bring a person to the realization that they feel and function better without gluten in their life.
Whether diagnosed as celiac or with a gluten sensitivity , if just by trial and error you have discovered the benefit of going without gluten in your diet, you are curious about going gluten free or even to support a loved on their path, this retreat is for you.
All menu items are gluten free.
Please keep in mind that the meals and snacks will be prepared in a location that gluten based items may have been prepared in. We will do our best diligence to not cross contaminate prepared foods. (eggs, seeds and nuts are used in some recipes. No corn or soy used)
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR/COOK:
I have been a practicing Nutritional Therapist, in Wilsonville, at Joy of Life Chiropractic for 3 years.
I love to cook, eat good food and to share nourishing food with others and have done so most of my adult life.
I have been walking the path of a gluten free life for over 20 years. As most people with this condition do I have stepped off and on the path numerous times. That was until I went to a wellness conference and the speaker impacted me profoundly with one sentence: WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE LACK OF HEALTH, ENERGY OR AN ILLNESS JUST SO YOU COULD CONSUME SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW MAKES YOU SICK?
That was my aha moment. I was continuing to eat my known reactive foods. I was secretly feeling sorry for myself because "no one else" cared about my choices. As a matter of fact people would encourage me to eat items that I knew would make me ill. Not with bad intentions. But I compare it to a person who can have one glass of wine verses the alcoholic which one glass of wine leads to a gallon jug of Gallo and greater illness.
I have so many tasty, great recipes along with my nutritional knowledge and experience that I want to share and support anyone I can on the path to gluten freedom.
YOGA and gut health: instructor TBA
Yoga is known to aide in digestion and in many ways guides a person toward greater well being.
Relaxation, meditation and healthy physical activity, all components of yoga, help center and relax the body.
A relaxed state of being helps support the digestive system and therefore better digestion.
With improved digestion your body is able to glean more nutrients from the food it is digesting.
A perfect fit for a gluten free retreat.
SOME DEMONSTRATION & MENU ITEMS:
GF Savory Scones GF Waffles (great as sandwich bread!)
Raw Fudge Nut Butter Bread (ways to use it)
Yummy power Nut Balls GF Crackers
Kombucha Krauts GF Bone Broth
Alternative Thickening Agents Foods to help support digestion and the gut
CLASS SCHEDULE: 5 classes
Each class will run approximately one to 1.5 hours
#1) Digestion and gut support:
In this class foods and beverages that support the digestive system and that can help promote healing of the gut will be discussed, demonstrated and of course sampled.
Includes Bone Broth, Krauts, Kombucha and soaking methods for better nutrition.
We will also discuss the "just a little bit" factor of how much gluten is too much for the sensitive digestive system.
#2) Comforting foods:
I think for many of us the items we miss the most are what we try to replicate in the GF world of cooking. In this class I will demo some of my favorite replacement recipes.
Includes GF Waffles, GF Crackers.
Choosing Nutrient dense recipes is a plus, we discuss this , blood sugar and how it relates to GF replacement foods.
#3) Desserts and treats:
Does this need any explanation? We all like a treat now and then but wouldn't it be nice to feel greater energy after consumption instead of sugar induced brain fog.
Includes Yummy Power Nut Bars, Quick Coconut pudding.
#4) More power to you:
Did you know we are a fat starved community? Good healthy fat that is. We all have perused the grocery isle for that quick GF grab, sometime compromising our health in other ways just to satisfy our "hunger".
Includes Raw fudge and Nut Breads
Discussing quality fats and their importance in the healthy functioning of our body.
#5) Other Nutritional ways to take care of your digestive system:
Includes Alternative choices for Thickening Agents:
There are many choices for items to thicken your soups, gravies and etc. Some are better nutritionally.
Plus a few more dietary and supplement choices to help with the many issues that can arise with digestive challenges, leaky gut and inflammation.
There will be a few tools and items to support you in your GF adventure for sale.
"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce qu tu es"
("Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are")
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Artists: Connect with the Land through Color 
A Color-Making Intensive Workshop
September 21-23, 2012
with Artist Tilke Elkins
Connect with the land as an artist at a profound, material level by
painting with the very stuff that inspires you: the landscape itself.
Spend four days in the woods by the creek at Tipi Village in beautiful
Marcola, Oregon -- sleep in a luxury tipi and learn to make paints
from earth, rocks and plants you find and gather yourself.
As you explore the surrounding hills in search of color, you'll be
encouraged to examine the specific human-scale features of the land
that attract you. What are the ways in which these features seem to
echo your inner state of being, and do they hold the potential to
transform you?
Using the pigments you've made, you'll play with color by making small abstract paintings that reveal a wealth of color relationships. Once familiar with the nature of these natural pigments, you'll blend the boundries between 2D and 3D work by using the pigments in addition to found natural objects to create a personal outdoor, ephemeral installation in the form of an alter. Assembled in the combined
spirits of installation artist Andy Goldsworthy, Japanese Shinto
shrines, and sacred pictographs, the alter will express a chosen
aspect of an inner growth edge and offer insight or guidance to those who view it.
Are you chemically sensitive or do you work with those who are? Do you
long to understand the material mysteries of color? Bid farewell to
dependance on expensive, toxic, petrochemical-based art supplies!
Transform the inner through the outer and leave an offering behind.
Bond with the land, swim in the creek, sleep with the stars, eat
scrumptious color-themed food and come prepared to ask every question
you've ever had about color.
DAY ONE
GATHERING COLOR: To begin, we'll take a walk through the landscape
around Tipi Village. We'll gather earth, rocks and plants that will
make brilliant, light-fast pigments that can be used with both watercolor
and oil mediums. We'll take time to be sensitive to aspects of the
land which resonate with us.
Following dinner there will be a lecture on the history of colored
pigments around the world.
DAY TWO
Participants will be encouraged to go on solo morning walks to further
explore the area before we meet as a group. Then, we'll embark on
the exciting, alchemical process of creating color from rocks and
plants by pounding, grinding, separating, boiling and drying, skills
you can use yourself for your future pigment needs. These pigments are
beautiful, extremely light-fast (the mineral ones -- the vegetable
ones are less permanent, unless kept away from light) and easy to work
with.
By the end of the day we will have a broad color vocabulary to work
with the following morning.
Evening: Color Games and Music by the Campfire
DAY THREE
Morning: We'll use the colors we've made to create luminous color
pallets and paint small color abstract paintings on wood to take home.
Afternoon: After selecting a specific site at or nearby Tipi Village,
participants will complete a series of exercises designed to bring
the theme and nature of a personal altar-installation into focus.
Group will disperse to the sites and assemble the altars.
We'll take time to tour the altars individually, then discuss them as a group. As a final project, we'll assemble one large altar together somewhere on the land.
Evening: Color Celebration: Color Meal, Face and/or Foot Painting, Color Ceremony
Farewell!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Artist Tilke Elkins has spent the last seven years studying,
exploring, making, writing about and painting with natural color. She grew up in a family of grapheme synaesthetes (people who see colors in their mind's eye when they think of letters and numbers) and is passionate about both the language of color and the intimate relationship that exists between people and the land.
She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and received an MFA in studio art at Bennington College. You can view her work at
www.tilkins.org and read her blog at
colorsong.tilkins.org .
Other earlier workshops by Tilke Elkins: THE ART OF IMPERFECTION: April 21st for sliding scale $22 - $44 plus $10 for materials - and Make Your Own Color with Artist Tilke Elkins on April 28th from ten to three for $45 plus $15 for materials. If you're interested in either one (or both!), please send a check of $20 minimum to hold your spot. You can make it out to me and send it to Tilke Elkins, 436 W D Street, Springfield, Oregon, 97477. Thank you!
“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
- Dalai Lama
