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Beltane Embroidery Workshop
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Prepare for and honor the height of Spring with the art of embroidery. Learn three traditional embroidery stitches from workshop author and facilitator Artemis Divine, and call in a critical personal theme you can carry into the Summer months. Combining these practices, you will develop meaningful symbology to incorporate into a hand-embroidered talisman. This intention-infused object may support you as solar energy increases in the Northern Hemisphere.
Artemis’ practice of herbalism draws mainly from traditional western plant medicine practices and principles, with an emphasis on the ways that plants can help individuals engage with both the energetic and applied properties of medicinal plants. Growing their medicinal plants and blending herbal teas are the ways they prefer to practice plant medicine in daily life. They believe we can learn a lot about our bodies and plants, as well as internal and external ecosystems, by establishing an intentional and consistent relationship with plants.
To listen to the wisdom of plants is a careful, quiet, and enduring journey.
Artemis lives and works in their hometown of Portland, OR. Their home studio practice encompasses work with painting, soft sculpture, fiber, healing plants, and a study of illustrated divinatory traditions. Themes within their work manifest the divine, wounded, surreal, and everyday contradictions of a lived human experience. Public art projects include Park It!, a temporary group installation in Madison, Wisconsin, and Bridge for Blankets, an installation for Portland's Broadway Bridge Centennial. Creative contributions as a member of the international, collaborative collective, Expanded Draught have concluded. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Archer Gallery | Clark College, Paragon Gallery, Chehalem Cultural Center, and Wolff Gallery. They are developing a series of hand-painted and embroidered work for an original tarot deck, the Radicle Pleasures Tarot.