The Harrisonburg/Rockingham community is invited to participate in two arts-based workshops led by Amanda Gross and sheba gittens on Saturday, January 11th at the Lisanby Museum on JMU’s campus. Activities will engage with the museum’s current exhibit, Worlds Within and Without: An Exhibition of Contemporary Black Art. The Lisanby Museum and the Furious Flower Poetry Center present artwork from the Art Bridges Foundation in an exhibition celebrating the work of contemporary Black artists. There is no cost to attend, and participants may attend the first, second, or both workshops. Registration is limited; please click here to sign up by January 8, 2025.
10:00-11:30 am
Worlds within and without: An integrative arts-based engagement with self and community
1:00-2:00pm
Worlds Restore within: A restorative guided meditative drawing experience. Come rest, restore, and review within an embodied neurographic art practice (bring a yoga mat if you have one).
Facilitators:
sheba gittens is an anti-racist heArtivist, art educator, and creative consultant based in this iteration of the world. She is a trained Wellness Practitioner, Anti-Racist Raja Yoga Instructor, and Joy Facilitator. As a creative consultant she has supported numerous organizations and businesses nationally and internationally in manifesting events, programs, and workshops grounded in equity for humanity and that honor intersectionality. As an integrative multimedia heArtivist, she uses mixed media to educate and expand the consciousness of those she serves and currently works with the Ujamaa Collective, Balafon West African Dance Ensemble, and YogaRoots On Location.
Amanda K Gross is an intersectional anti-racist organizer and a weaver of people, ideas, and threads. As the founder, author, and creative director of Mistress Syndrome, she writes about the interconnectedness of racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and white womanhood. She is an anti-racist coach, educator, facilitator. As a hand weaver, mixed media artist, and trained yoga instructor, she integrates creative embodied practices throughout her organizing. Amanda is certified at the 200 hour RYT level by YogaRoots On Location’s Anti-Racist Raja Yoga School. She has an MA in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and is currently pursuing a PhD in Expressive Arts at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Amanda is the author of the recently published book, White Women, Get Ready: How Healing Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change.
Location:
Lisanby Museum, lower level of JMU Festival Conference and Student Center
1301 Carrier Drive
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Free parking will be available in lots C12, D3, R4, across the street from the Festival.