Support our local school by purchasing one of these paintings from the exhibit “Small Wonders” at Occidental Center for the Arts!

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BY BOBBI KATZ

Fluent 2012

When we look through watery darkness, we find an expansion of golden light.

Graton artist and school teacher, Drea Jensen, in efforts to raise money for the Harmony Ark Education Foundation, is putting “Fluent 2012” up for sale, with proceeds going to help fund the enrichment educational needs of local students.

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Marvel 2012

Step back to see the sensational differences in life’s situations.

In efforts to raise money for the Harmony Ark Education Foundation, Drea is putting “Marvel 2012” up for sale, with proceeds going to help fund the enrichment educational needs of local students.

“Providing art, music and sport opportunities to young people encourages them to succeed academically in school,” said Jensen. “It is my hope that selling these paintings will help our local children.”

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Curiosity 2012

Remember the importance and value of innovative creativity. Sometimes it will lead us to things we would have never seen or experienced before.

Graton artist and school teacher, Drea Jensen, in efforts to raise money for the Harmony Ark Education Foundation, is putting “Curiosity 2012” up for sale, with proceeds going to help fund the enrichment educational needs of local students.

http://dreajensengallery.artistwebsites.com/featured/curiosity-2012-drea-jensen.html

Graton artist and school teacher, Drea Jensen, in efforts to raise money for the Harmony Ark Education Foundation, is putting four of her paintings up for sale, with proceeds going to help fund the enrichment educational needs of local students.

“Providing art, music and sport opportunities to young people encourages them to succeed academically in school,” said Jensen.  “It is my hope that selling these paintings will help our local children.”

The Harmony Ark Education Foundation  funds many programs for the Harmony Union School District including art, music, band, after school sports, technology, drama, the garden program, Renaissance Fridays, Spanish, field trips, and poetry as well as scholarships and materials for the classrooms and the library.  This year, the Ark is also funding a new play structure for the Kindergarten area, e-books for the school library, and listening centers for the second and third grade classes.

The paintings can be viewed in the “Small Wonders” exhibit running 10/16/12 to 1/06/13 at the Occidental Center for the Arts.

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice —
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do —
determined to save
the only life you could save.

~ Mary Oliver ~

(Dream Work)

Come and view “Small Wonders” at Occidental Center for the Arts.

http://www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org/

How does turning a painting help you to see the values better, the “weight” of color, the shapes in the painting?  The cool thing about abstract art is looking at it from different directions…

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…”

~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love