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Yountville Community Center, Washington Street, Yountville, CA, USA

YOU CAN PAINT: EXPERIENCE YOUR CREATIVE SOURCE THROUGH ACRYLIC PAINTING

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Yountville Community Center, Washington Street, Yountville, CA, USA

Blessings for World Peace

Karen Pierce Gonzalez, Artist, Writer for Culture formerly with San Francisco Chronicle and Marin Independent Journal. https://folkheartpressblog.blogspot.com/2022/06/blessings-for-world-peace.html

Interviews Francine Kohn, artist, art educator, and healer.

I recently attended a World Peace Prayer Flags Meditation and Flag Making workshop in Yountville, a Napa County (California) hamlet. Others and I decorated prayer flags for a world peace project sponsored by the Town of Yountville. All 100 flags are now installed in the town's central plaza. Below are three examples of prayer flags created that day.  
The event was the brainchild of the workshop facilitator Francine Kohn. A multi-dimensional artist, educator, and healer who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, she developed this project as way for people to collectively pray for peace - each in his or her own way, and to feel uplifted and connected to others. Francine and I recently e-chatted about this community opportunity. Here's part of our

 conversation:

Q: This project offered a way for the public to respond to the war in Ukraine. Can you say more?
A: Activities like this bring together people who share a desire for global peace. Everyone has a chance to express his or her own symbols of peace; sometimes adding words as well. It’s a great way to be creative, to help balance and focus the body and mind towards the spirit while having fun.
Q: What did you want people to experience?
A: The peace, within and without that comes from exploring and discovering individual as well as group power to create the desired change in the world.
Q: Why did you include meditation?
A: Guided meditation can assist people in experiencing their own wisdom and creativity and often inspires them to be agents of peace. In group settings, that can effect real change - locally and globally.              Prayer Flags       

Q: What tools from your own impressive arts and spiritual study toolbox did you use for this?
A: Painting, cave art, Hindustani music, energy heart healing, Nichiren/Tibetan Buddhism, quantum mechanics/perception, conscious channeling, and guided meditation.
Q: What responses did you receive from participants?
A: Everyone enjoyed themselves. Marianne Lyon, Napa Poet Laureate, collaborated with me and remarked that the workshop was deeply spiritual for her and others as well. “People have emailed me to tell me how much they needed the event!!!!!”
Q: You mentioned the workshop, which includes an at-home flag-making component, was a way to give back to the community which has supported your many other artistic activities, including upcoming collaborative art for grandparents and grandchildren, and a painting course designed for those who want to explore their creativity. What is it you are giving back?
A: Safe, natural, and integral art-making opportunities to assist others in trusting their own inner knowing and, at the same time, developing a greater sense of community.
Q:Do you have plans for similar projects? If so, can you give us some details?
A: Yes, I am working now to offer Prayer Flags and Meditation courses, as well as prayer flag installations, in other North Bay locations.
To learn more about Francine’s upcoming events, prayer flag installations, and her artwork, which has been shown near and far and is now in many private and corporate collections, visit her website https://www.francinekohnart.com
Here is Francine's video sample of flags made during the workshop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnUHFnboZA

The Healing Power of Art & Artists Featuring Francine Kohn

Artists for World Peace Exhibition

"Conscious Creation" is a custom, giclee print by Francine Kohn and is part of “Artists For World Peace” is a juried online exhibition presented by The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS, curated by Renée Phillips, in celebration of International Peace Day, September 21, 2018. We asked artists worldwide to submit one work of art that communicates the spirit of world peace and their statement or a famous quotation. We hope you enjoy this exhibition, will return to it often and share this page with others. Please visit the artists’ websites to learn more about them and contact them directly to purchase or exhibit their artwork.

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