Plein Air Painting

59700 Twentynine Palms Highway,Joshua Tree CA 92252

24 September, 2022

Description

Beginning with a friendly sketch of our choice of surrounding landscape, we will be working w/ light and dark in the presence of Desert Reflections. Inside this Plein Air Painting class, students will informally probe and unlock the mysteries of connection w/ nature and art-making as they are being applied to canvas. ALL AGES & LEVELS WELCOME FEES: $22 - $40 (SLIDING SCALE) MATERIALS (OPTIONAL, STUDENTS MAY BRING THEIR OWN KITS): $15 About the instructor: Vanessa Ehecatl Santos is an Interdisciplinary Indigenous Disabled Artist (Sculptor, Ceramicist, Textile, Illustration, Painter and Printer), All Ages Art and Eco-Arts Educator, Nature Educator, Writer and Environmental Justice Advocate that has been in practice for over 20 years. They have published written work thru Painwise Press (Mayan A.I.), Nuerofuzzy Press Taxonomy Press and Eco-Crips Zine. Vanessa, also known as the project ‘Ancient Pocket’ ancientpocket.com runs an all ages Experimental Arts and Ecology Unschool called T.H.E.A. terraheavenecoarts.com and co-curated a Quarterly Outdoor Art Exhibition in Los Angeles seraphimdream.com . Specializing in Indigenous Esoteric Studies (descending from a line of Black Mexica, Yaqui, Apache and Hopi ancestors) they are a Minister of Public Ceremony, a certified Reiki Master, Auto-Immune Herbalist and Bio-dynamic Bee-keeper, Bio-dynamic Farmer and Akashic Tarot Reader. Most recently, Vanessa has displayed artworks at The Beatnik ‘QueerRated’ in Joshua Tree CA, @ HDTS Headquarters ‘Parallel Programs for The Seekers’ in Yucca Valley/ CA, Flowerhead Gallery in Los Angeles/ CA and has served as a traveling Altar installation maker throughout CA’s High Desert, the PacNW and MW. Their theology focuses on the internal world in relationship to the external and sees no distinction between the spheres of these realms.