Dawn Project- First Light/ First Tea

Painting workshop with artist Jeannine Bardo

Join us at Spring Tea on May 11 to paint your observations/remembrances on 4×4 canvases.

How to join:
Week of May 5-10, in the morning, look at the sky, and jot down a thorough description of what you see. Try to record at least three days. Make it detailed enough to help you remember the colors, shapes of clouds, light… Here is an example of a description of one of the artist’s early morning sky recordings: “Light blue with a few faint smudges of sparse grey clouds with a very bright 3/4 moon to the right.” Do not photograph this image. It is meant to be an exercise in mindfulness, awareness and being present.

Reflections from the artist:
“Each day I try to record the colors and what I see as a way to jog my memory and make me present for a portion of my day. I orient myself with the sky and my garden. I look to the sky every morning I leave my house, but I realized even though I was aware and present and grateful for the beauty I see every day, I could never quite remember this moment. Perhaps I am not meant to. Perhaps to go on living we must keep our eyes open and in order to go on living with pleasure, hope and awe we must see enormous beauty as if for the first time, every time and be grateful for the continual gift nature presents to us over and over.

The artist will stitch the works together and show them at our Odes to Common Things celebration in Stand4 Gallery on June 1-2 where you are all welcome to see the work come together.

Odes to Common Things

Stand4 Gallery will be hosting the pop-up event Odes to Common Things for our friends Tea Arts and Culture on June 1st and 2nd. Join us as we gather in community to display the poems and paintings from Spring Tea.

Stand4 Gallery
Saturday June 1st and Sunday, June 2nd
12:00-3:00 PM

“In a world full of the abundance of beautiful things at the reach of our fingertips, the beauty of life might more likely be discovered among the common things, with a little wit, a little playfulness, and some time to look at things in a different way. We would like to create more space and time for people to engage in the simple moment through the art of tea and find that common humanity we shared. In our intricate fast changing world with so many undisguised social challenges, we firmly believe our efforts are essential and impactful, contributing to a more compassionate and balanced world.”

– Tea Arts and Culture