While the classes take place at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, please note that MBGNA does not sponsor these classes.
6-week class, Thursday afternoons 2-4 pm, May 8-June 12 at Matthaei Botanical Gardens
(Class will take place outdoors, unless weather doesn’t allow, then it will be in conservatory.) Sliding scale $240-$300
Register with Mary Ledvina at this link.
“To see a bird and stop, watch, feel, forget yourself for a moment, be in the bushy shadows,. Maybe then feel ‘wren’—that is to have joined a moment with the larger world.” —Gary Synder
Do you want to connect with nature through writing and art? Do you want to learn simple journaling prompts and ways to do art that are especially conducive to being outside? Do you want to be in a small community that shares their experiences of nature connections?
Experience being in nature while we write, draw, paint, then share. Be guided how to notice, ponder, and make connections with nature through writing along with how to “cloud log”, make a map, press flowers, do diagrammatic drawings and more.
“By setting aside a bit of time each day to become absorbed in just being — you will find yourself refreshed, refocused and better able to approach the rest of your day.”
—Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth
Mary Ledvina, B.A., M.O.T., is a healer, teacher, writer and artist. She has been regularly doing watercolor and other art since 2009 and has been keeping a nature journal since 2018. She writes poetry, self-help essays, along with doing art journaling, urban sketching, plein air painting and more. She loves when words and art combine, especially when it can be done in the outdoors, and she wants to share this with you. Her work has been published in Art Journaling magazine, Paragraph, Seeding the Snow, Open Minds Quarterly, Peninsula Poets, and Harpy Hybrid Review. She has taught art journaling, writing, The Artist’s Way process and more. She lives with her husband in a solar-powered house in Whitmore Lake, MI.
[email protected] maryledvina.com 734-646-9161
Register: https://www.maryledvina.com/classes
