Sunday, March 8, 2020 10 am - 1 pm 

At Propagate Sacramento, 1700 I Street, Sacramento, CA

A workshop exploring creative process through movement and painting, for ALL levels of art making experience. ALL SUPPLIES INCLUDED

Move, dance, draw and paint! Connect with your unique, authentic, creative source through awareness and embodied movement while learning about process, basic color-mixing and painting techniques for abstract painting. 

What you can expect: 

guided movement explorations

create expressive drawings 

color mixing with acrylic paint

learn or deepen you knowledge and understanding of painting process

create several abstract process paintings on paper with guidance and feedback 

In this workshop we will tune in to our bodies using mindfulness and movement explorations to source our unique creative impulses. Through the playful engagement of these impulses we can embark on a path of authentic self-expression and create compelling art regardless of skill level.

I will guide you through inner and outer explorations that are both playful and deep, in order to connect what you feel, experience, and store in your body, to how you visually express yourself with color and paint. Drawing from my own process, I will share my approach to color mixing and making abstract paintings. 

This class is for artists and “non-artists” (not actually a thing!) alike. Whether you have a regular creative practice or not, this class will give you fresh tools to move through any creative obstacle and give you access to your own deeply authentic, completely unique, always available, creative inspiration. When we draw from our internal and embodied experience, all emotion, thought and sensation, positive or negative, become potent creative fuel. Since your body is always with you, this means you will literally never have to feel creatively stuck again.

Please wear comfortable clothing that you can move in and don’t mind getting paint on - (acrylic paint does not come out!).

Included supplies:

high quality, professional grade acrylic paint

several sheets of 140 lb watercolor paper per person

variously sized large paint brushes

a paint mixing palette for each participant to use

palette knives

oil pastels

newsprint

The workshop fee minus a $10 non-refundable registration fee is refundable until March 3, 2020

“It is my experience that it’s not WHAT we make, but HOW we make it that gives our work meaning. By valuing process over product, the act of art making becomes nourishing and healing. Paradoxically, when we express ourselves creatively with a focus on process over product, the final product often carries a charge to it that is not only deeply satisfying to you as the maker, but also more inspiring and meaningful to the viewer. In addition, by turning to our bodies for creative inspiration, we initiate a loving dialogue with our body, heart and spirit, and gift ourselves with the healing attention our inner beings crave.'‘

Anna Sofia Amezcua is a working artist and a background in movement, yoga, and other body-centered practices. As a painter, she is known for her evocative abstract paintings and murals, in which she uses color and physicality to express visceral emotion and felt experience. Her process is intuitive, expressive, and gestural, and informed by her background in movement and dance as well as an acute sensitivity to color. Through powerful and intimate expression, she delves beneath the surface to encourage and validate deep emotionality and the strength in vulnerability. She brings this commitment to deep process to her Embodied Abstract Painting Workshops, in which she facilitates deeper connection to authentic creativity through movement-inspired painting.

She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she studied painting, dance, writing and literature, and attended Oxford University, in Oxford, England. She has completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Inner Freedom Yoga, in Arcata California, and has trained extensively in Movement Based Expressive Arts Therapy at the Tamalpa Institute, in Marin County, California. She has been practicing Neigong for the past two and a half years. 

Anna Sofia exhibits her work both nationally and internationally and is included in various private collections.  She lives and works in Eureka, California.