Moon Gathering

 Moon Gathering.  12/14/16

  I was inspired by Red Earth,  the environmental arts group that creates site specific

 installations & performances in response to the landscape (To Life, wk 7)
to create my own environmental art performance celebrating positive female strength. I feel most fulfilled when surrounded by other artists,- but when I am within a group of women artists it is as if I have entered a sacred space and I wanted to honor that. My idea was to gather all my female art buddies together in a fertile landscape setting  and lift each other up in positivity and support in our roles of successful female artists. The concept of meeting in a fertile, constantly renewable landscape we would be receiving renewed creativity from Mother Earth as well as remembering the importance of doing what we can to keep the Earth healthy.

          When I started sharing my thoughts with my female art buddies they were really excited!! They had input like crazy! "Let's do a cleansing! ", "We need a fire to gather around!", "Let's make crowns!" "We have to have a talking stick so everyone listens to the person holding the stick!", "Lets make things to share with each other to put on our crowns!" At one point I threw up my hands and exclaimed, "I've lost control of my project and I love it!"

          I wanted a moon gathering since women around the world have been gathering together under new moons and full moons for eons. For the importance of location it was decided **under the full moon** since we would all be going our separate ways soon and would likely never all be together under a full moon again. We could, however, be under the same moon no matter where we were.
         
             So it was decided that November 14th, a full moon, we would have our Moon Gathering.
               more info soon.....