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Progams Overview:

Wild Heart Art Painting

Collage for the Wild Heart

Mandalas
 

Other Programs

Mask Making
 


More Information
If you have a group of 4 or more, a private group workshop for any of the programs can be arranged.
Individual 3 hour sessions by appointment $150.

All programs require advance registration with a deposit. Since classes are small, please, no last minute dropouts. It effects everyone so give thoughtful consideration of your attendance.

Materials and refreshments are included in the programs. Some classes call for the additional use of personal items that are specified in the description of the class. Dress is always casual and comfortable. Classes are small so individual attention is assured.

Payment can be made by check sent to Wild Heart Art, 909 Harvard, Houston, Texas 77008. Please call 832-618-1416 if you need directions or have any questions.

The studio is located in the Houston Heights. There are great little places to eat close to the studio although most are not walking distance. A list and menus of restaurants are available at the studio.

For out of town guests, there are two B & B's near by. Sara's Bed & Breakfast is located three blocks from the studio at 941 Heights Blvd., 713-868-1130, 800-593-1130, www.saras.com and down the boulevard is Bogart's on the Boulevard, at 1536 Heights Blvd., 713-864-2500, www.bogarts.org.


Wild Heart Painting
Through discussion and painting you are introduced to the wonder of your creativity. You will be guided and supported as you connect to your innate creative source as a means of authentic self-expression. This powerful and transformative process invites passion, play, and purpose. All you need is a willingness to open your heart and explore.

The program begins with dialogue and the concepts that make painting for process unique. Within the first hour you begin painting using a rich array of succulent colors and fine brushes. You will discover that painting can be a joyful sensual experience.

Elisabeth Keely Wilson captures the experience of the creative process and describes it as, "Opening to the mystery of myself, I am asked to enter the unknown and to follow my instincts. Hidden within the cloud of unknowingness resides a presence which is constantly guiding me toward my true self."1

When you explore your creativity you may be surprised...you may be delighted...you may be WILD...you learn to trust. Often participants leave the workshop feeling a new sense of freedom.

1 KALEIDOSCOPE: Artistic Techniques for the Creative Soul.





Collage for the Wild Heart and Wild Heart Altar Screens
Express your creativity through collage in an intuitive process of exploration and artmaking.

As with all other Wild Heart Art offerings, no previous art experience is necessary. You will be guided and supported in an atmosphere of caring and sharing as you experiment and play with a wonderful array of materials and techniques. In this class participants absolutely delight in the magic of the creative process.

Most materials are provided but you are asked to bring a few basic supplies. They are: Liquitex Matte Gel Medium or Liquitex Matte Medium (your choice of small or large size), Liquitex Acrylic Gesso (small size), and Tacky glue or any size of another comparable brand. All can be purchased at Texas Art Supply, Michael's, or Hobby Lobby. Participants usually elect to bring their choice of a piece of handmade paper, origami paper, a fabric, or a trim in their favorite color scheme. If you like, you can share bits and pieces, making yours and others' finished art even more interesting.

You'll also want to add personal items to make it uniquely yours. Just scout around the home before class and find any small pictures, poems, totems, icons and/or sacred symbols that are meaningful to you.




Wild Heart Altar Screens are folding collages that can be placed on a table, or as part of a personal altar, and can be folded for storage and travel. They are an exceptional form of personal expression and can provide a visual reminder to connect to and honor that which is meaningful in your life. Many participants elect to create these in memory of a special event or person.

You will be guided in collage techniques to make your altar screen, so bring any significant items you wish to include. It is not necessary to purchase any other supplies for the Altar Screen class.


Other Programs
At Wild Heart Art we are always adding fun new ways to express your creativity. Currently our other programs include Arte del Corazón Nichos (Heart Art Niches) and the Journal Project. We welcome your requests and suggestions, and will also design a program especially for you and your group.


Arte del Corazón Nichos (Heart Art Niches)
Nichos are small boxes from Mexico. They are often metal with a glass front so that a special personal or religious item can be displayed. You will create your own unique nicho with symbols, pictures, and words. In this program dialogue, inspiration, and reflection invite the heart to express what is meaningful, comforting, and healing for you. Choose from an assortment of supplied materials and bring any keepsakes or trinkets that you wish to include in your Arte del Corazón Nicho. It becomes your very personal icon that symbolically represents what brings you strength and well-being.


Collage for the Wild Heart: An Intuitive and Collaborative Process Journal Project
This special project of Wild Heart Art is a year-long exchange that supports each individual's ongoing creative practice. Participants select their own theme, make their journal covers, and three inside pages. The journal then passes throughout the group on a rotation schedule with each person completing art in each journal. At the end of the year there is a reception and showing of all the journals for family and friends to share in this amazing journey. The journal then returns to its original creator.

In the beginning everyone meets to go over the details necessary to ensure a successful program. Other gatherings throughout the year are fun but optional. Attending at least one Wild Heart Art program prior to participation in the program is required so that everyone has an understanding of the "process" approach.

The project that is now in progress will have a show in February 2007. If you wish to receive an invitation to that show or if you are interested in participating in the next project beginning in 2006, please email kay for details.


Wild Heart Art Mask Making
Throughout time masks have been important components of the ceremonial and spiritual life of our ancestors. While masks are generally thought to conceal the wearer, they can also offer revealing and regenerative power.

Connect with your innate creative source energy and make your own unique mask. You will be guided and supported as you animate your mask. As with all Wild Heart Art classes, we will honor the creative process as it unfolds. No previous art or mask making experience is necessary. All materials and snacks are provided. You also may wish to bring additional personal items for adornment of your mask. Please bring a sack lunch.


Mandala Heart Art
Mandalas are considered sacred art. Found in many traditions since ancient times, the circular image becomes a pathway for self-expression, insight, healing, and introspective meditation or prayer. Like other programs at Wild Heart Art, you will be guided and supported throughout the creation of your personal Mandala. In fostering an atmosphere that invites contemplation, spontaneity, and creativity, you connect with the inner voice of the heart as it incubates what needs to be born. All you need reveals itself.




Authentic Movement – Authentic Creativity for Adults at Studio NiaMoves
October 26, 2008
12:00 to 5:00 PM
3221 Houston Avenue
Houston, Texas 77009
713-864-4260

Join Kristie Bryant, instructor and co-owner of Studio NiaMoves and Kay Kemp of Wild Heart Art for a unique afternoon of movement and creative expression. Feel the natural rhythm and flow of your body and let your creativity unfold in this introductory program of movement and process painting. Previous training in art, NIA, or other movement venues is not necessary. You will be guided and supported without critique. All that is needed is a desire to listen to your inner self and explore the wonder of your creative source.

--Experience the freedom and joy of authentic expression
--Practice listening to the wisdom of the body and how it releases facilitates your innate creativity
--Discover unique ways of expressing who you are through movement and painting
--Nourish body, mind and soul as you explore and expand the enormous capacity of your creativity
--Dissolve creative blocks

Kay Kemp, founder of Wild Heart Art, has been teaching painting for process for the last eight years. This unique and individual approach to painting has been instrumental in her own spiritual and creative development as it has for countless others. Kay is both a creativity coach and an artist who is dedicated to helping people find their true voice of authentic expression as they open to the joy and healing that creativity has to offer.

Kristie Bryant, a Nia Blue Belt instructor and co-owner of NiaMoves, is a refugee from the corporate world who discovered Nia in 2000. At the time a national sales manager for a high-tech company's product line, she was seeking to restore balance to a life that had become overly work-focused and tried Nia at a friend's suggestion. In one of Kristie's first classes, a teacher encouraged the class to sense their arms floating towards the sky like blades of grass and to feel the warmth from the sun. Kristie remembers feeling awkward and laughing about the experience with colleagues at her office. Now a Nia devotee, she embraces the blades of grass and sun! And she loves experiencing new body sensations. She also treasures the physical, emotional and spiritual benefits that come from incorporating Nia into her daily life.

Cost: $95
Materials included
Registration through NiaMoves
Click here to register



Collage Greeting Cards for the Wild Heart for Adults - Houston Heights Studio (Day Class)
November 19, 2008
Make your own special and unique holiday greeting cards. Express your creativity through collage in this intuitive process of exploration and artmaking, no previous art experience is necessary. You will be guided and supported in an atmosphere of caring and sharing as you experiment and play with a wonderful array of materials. Participants absolutely delight in the magic of the creative process and come away with one-of-a-kind cards to share with friends and family.


12:30 pm - 4:00 pm Cost: $55 which includes materials. Registration deadline - November 12, 2008. Deposits are refundable until 10 days prior to start of workshop (minus $25 handling).

Due to limited class size, deposits MUST be received prior to class date in order to hold your place and missed classes are nonrefundable.

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(What's Your Favorite) Collage for the Wild Heart (Adults) - Heights/Harvard Studio
December 10, 2008
Express your creativity through collage in an intuitive process of exploration and artmaking. Access your inner voice and give birth to your unique expression from within.

As with all other Wild Heart Art offerings, no previous art experience is necessary. You will be guided and supported in an atmosphere of caring and sharing as you experiment and play with a wonderful array of materials and techniques. Participants absolutely delight in the magic of the creative process in these collage classes.

12:30 pm -4:00 pm
Cost: $50 + $7.50 materials fee
Registration deadline - December 3, 2008 - Deposits are refundable until 10 days prior to start of workshop (minus $25 handling).
Facilitator: Kay Kemp

Due to limited class size, deposits MUST be received prior to class date in order to hold your place and missed classes are nonrefundable.

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Creativity Calls to Your Wild Heart
January 9, 10, & 11, 2008
Explore your creativity as a means of authentic self-expression and self-discovery. Through discussion, PROCESS PAINTING, AND COLLAGE, you
will be introduced to the wonder of your creativity in new ways. This powerful and transformative process invites passion, play, and purpose. All you need is a willingness to open your heart and explore. No previous art experience is necessary. You will be guided and supported without critique.

Friday, January 9th, 6 pm - 9 pm
Saturday & Sunday, January 10th & 11th, 10 am -

Early Bird Registration by December 1, 2008 - Tuition: $260
After December 1st Tuition Cost: $325
Includes all materials
Registration Deposit: $100
Deposits are refundable until 10 days prior to start of workshop (minus $25 handling).
Facilitator: Kay Kemp

Due to limited class size, deposits MUST be received prior to class date in order to hold your place and missed classes are nonrefundable.

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Celebration of a Year of Creativity Intuitive Collaboration Project
January 31, 2009
Bigger & Better!

Reception and Exhibit
6:30 - 9:30 pm

Featuring Artists

Virginia Baker - Sharon Bartlett - Kathryn Berg - Wendy Campbell
Kerri Classen - Celia Clowe - Eileen Crowley-Reed - Ruth Cutting
Heather Dusterhoff - Janet Fronko - Maryann Gremillion - Sue Guidry
Christi Hellrung - Kay Kemp - Rebecca Kveton - Jeri Leer
Melanie Miller - Monica Mizell - June Oros - Mary Riggs Ramain
Nancy Barr Raper - Cherie Ray - Joan Spaw - Mary Jane White

Winter Street Studio Gallery
2101 Winter Street
Houston, Texas 77007

We invite you to join us in celebrating
the completion of our year-long
Wild Heart Art Collaborative Journal Project
and Goddess, Shaman, Crone Art Project

In addition to the projects exhibition,
art created by many of the artists
will be for sale, as well as a silent auction
of selected works of art.



This wallhanging featuring Goddess Archetypes and created by Sharon Bartlett, Kay Kemp, & Cherie Ray will be
among the items available for silent auction.

2101 Winter Street(1 block east of Sawyer behind the Success Rice Mill)




Collage Greeting Cards for Your Wild Heart at The Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas (Adults)
February 7, 2009
Take a day for creative expression and play at the historic Live Oak Art Center located at 1014 Milam in Columbus, Texas.

Participants absolutely delight in the magic of the creative process to create one-of-a-kind mixed media cards to share with loved ones.



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Applying Your Feminine Divine and Healing Wisdom: A study and creative project to explore the feminine archetypes of the Goddess, Shaman, and Crone
March 20, 21, & 22, 2009
- Learn about the archetypes of the Goddess, Shaman, & Crone.
- Identify and access the qualities that resonate.
- Be lovingly guided to a new way of perceiving yourself and others.
- Learn how to apply these fresh insights to the world we live in today.
- Discover a perspective that brings you into harmony with your purpose.
- Create an assemblage that honors your unique qualities.
- Open to your wise intuitive Goddess-Shaman-Crone within.
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Early Bird Discount: $395 (3 full days) if deposit received by February 15, 2009. After February 15th – Tuition: $450. Early registration is suggested as space is limited.

Deposit of $150 due when registering to hold your place.
Balance due by March 1, 2008.
Deposits are refundable until March 1, 2009 (minus $25 handling).

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Understanding the Goddess, Shaman, and Crone can lead to a different way of perceiving yourself and others. Consider that the GODDESS archetype embodies wisdom, guidance, physical grace, athletic prowess and sensuality. Examples: Athena, warrior woman & Venus, beauty and sexuality. The archetype of the SHAMAN is one of a healer which utilizes the gifts of nature along with spiritual knowledge. Examples: Earth Mother, Mother Nature (Pachu Mama), Spiritual and Religious Leaders, i.e. Mother Teresa. The CRONE represents the ancient wise woman. Aging+Creativity= Metamorphosis. Examples: Our ancestors, our grandmothers, and eventually ourselves.

Sessions are designed for women who wish to explore the Divine Feminine within. Both artists and those with no art background are welcome. You will be guided and supported in your creative process.

Over the course of this 3-session program you will create an assemblage that is representative of the essence of your unique Goddess-Shaman-Crone. Another integral part of this program is journaling about your new awakenings which cultivates clarity of purpose.

Most materials are provided but you'll want to add personal items to make it uniquely yours portraying the qualities that resonate most with you. Additional items might include jewelry, photos, poems, icons and/or sacred symbols that have special meaning for you. A list of suggested supplies will be given at the end of session one.

Sharon Grace Bartlett, M.S. is an educator, facilitator, and private consultant. She is a woman who honors her divine feminine, who sits in circles of women and who values all that is divine in others. Her interest in the Goddess dates back to her childhood years when she embraced "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" as her personal archetype. Sharon considers herself an "artist in training", and brings her talents and creativity to present this topic to which she is intensely passionate.

Kay Kemp, founder of Wild Heart Art will facilitate along with Sharon. For more about Kay and Wild Heart Art, please visit those sections of this website.

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Cool, Crazy, Collage Art for the Wild Heart (Adults) Heights/Harvard Studio-Registration
April 22 & 23, 2009
Private Registration

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