Our third Diva Retreat begins tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. In January of 2006, Random Arts sponsored a Passport Subscriptto Creativity retreat with Kristin Steiner. There were ten of us. By the end of the weekend, Kristi was calling us Divas.
A year and a half ago, Sharon Kolbye, one of the original members of the first retreat invited us to participate in an art project exchange. The theme was trees. Two additional people were invited to participate. We each made a dozen small quilt squares based on our own interpretation of the theme. We met in November of 2007 to exchange our squares. The picture below was taken of the original ten when we got together for the exchange in November of 2008. .
The idea of doing another retreat came up when we got together for the exchange. Bob and I are volunteer chaplains at the Snail's Pace in Saluda, so we suggested meeting there. Bob was one of the two members added to the group when we did the quilt square project. So, now we are the Divas and Bob. Last February we had a delightful creative weekend together. And, tomorrow, we''ll gather there again.
This picture was taken of half the group on a hike to Pearson's Falls during our 2008 retreat. Bob was taking the picture and some of the group went shopping at Random Arts instead of hiking.
This year we are each to bring an item we purchased at a thrift shop and alter it to make a new creation during the weekend. I will also be leading the group in journal writing exercises and discussion of Patti Digh's, Life is a Verb.
I'm looking forward to "show and tell.' It will be great fun to see what people have been creating. There will be a gift exchange at the beginning of the retreat. Each of us has made 12 items to share. I have been working hard in the studio most of yesterday and today finishing my gifts. I have a few details to add and then I will post a picture here.
One of my goals for this retreat is to get someone to take a picture of all twelve of us!
Betsy, this is a great visual to our group. Thank you so much
for sharing this with the world.
Jane
Posted by: jane powell | February 27, 2009 at 08:14 AM