Tag: transformation

This program is being offered in-person. In order to participate, please register by clicking the RSVP button above or by emailing olivia@smithcenter.org.

Substance of Venom New single channel video work, 2022 (video still) by artist Cherie Sampson

The Smith Center for Healing and the Arts will be hosting an in-person art workshop in collaboration with the current exhibition, every.single.one: art, cancer, and transformation, on display at the gallery! “every.single.one” became the title for a body of creative works developed since 2017 by Cherie Sampson that document and depict personal, familial and community experiences with hereditary breast cancer. Works from the project include video art and short
films, soundscapes, photographs, montages and an additional live performance that will be performed in the beginning of August. We invite you to experience the exhibition in its entirety during our Gallery Art Workshop. Following the exhibition viewing, participants will engage in a reflective art exercise. In this art
space, you will be able to utilize different mediums to create your own work of art inspired by the show. Participants are free to create in their own way.

If you have been touched by cancer in some way, we invite you to join us for this workshop.

Address:

Smith Center for Healing and the Arts

1632 U Street NW

Washington, DC 20009

Smith Center is a 15-minute walk from both the Metro Red Line (Dupont Circle) or Green Line (U Street Cardozo). For those driving, there is On-street, two-hour metered parking on U St and two-hour, non-metered parking in the surrounding neighborhood.

About Cherie Sampson

Cherie Sampson has worked for over 25 years as an interdisciplinary artist in environmental performance, sculpture and video art. She has exhibited internationally in live performances, art-in-nature symposia, video/film screenings and installations in the US, Finland, Norway, Holland, Cuba, France, Greece, Italy, India, Spain, Argentina, South Korea, Hong Kong and other countries. Sampson is the recipient of a number of fellowships & grants including two Fulbright Fellowships to Finland (1998 & 2011), a Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant (North Karelia Fund), three Finlandia Foundation Grants and multiple internal research grants for artistic projects from the University of Missouri. She divides her time between the University of Missouri where she is an Associate Professor of Art and her organic farm in Northeast Missouri where she creates some of her art works in the cultivated and wooded environments. She is the current President of Artists in Nature International Network (AiNIN). Sampson received her Master of Fine Art Degree in Intermedia & Video Art from the University of Iowa in 1997 with a minor in Sculpture.

For more information, please visit: https://cheriesampson.net/every.single.one-(work-in-process)-2019-2021).html

We are pleased to announce our In-Person Retreat will be held at Hallowood Retreat Center, nestled on 55 wooded acres in scenic Frederick County, Maryland.

The spots for our in-person retreat are currently filled. If you are interested in attending, we ask you to please email us at retreats@smithcenter.org.

Transform Cancer: A Healing Retreat

June 9 – 11, 2023

This program is being offered virtually through Zoom. In order to participate and receive the Zoom link, register by clicking the RSVP button above or by emailing programs@smithcenter.org.

You will receive the Zoom information no later than the morning of your program.

with Kayla Harley

Radical Self-Care is both a wellness/mindfulness campaign and curriculum that calls for intra-personal development and transformation. It provides holistic tools, applications, and methods for self-care, mind-body awareness, mental/emotional preservation, and physical conditioning.

Using the GYROKINESIS® Expansion Technique, Breathing Exercises, and Guided Meditation – it instills a sense of awareness, introspection, enlightenment and freedom into participants who may lack the courage or confidence to do so on their own or have adverse conditions/circumstances that do not easily make self-care accessible.

About Kayla Harley

Kayla is an International Wellness Practitioner, Optimal Breathologist and GYROTONIC®/GYROKINESIS® Instructor and the founder of The Beebodi Marketplace who believes firmly that the body has the power to heal itself through actively listening, with proper guidance, care and support. The holistic teaching that Kayla offers –generates a sense of calm, ease, trust, and connection to the DIVINE from within. She has taught in corporate settings, international festivals, conferences and the like. Kayla herself is a testimony of healing faith – using specialized techniques to overcome life as a Chronic Facial Pain Warrior – TN Trigeminal Neuralgia.