Connect to Nature with Art with Teresa Stern
Connect with artist Teresa Stern for a guided nature walk to engage all five key senses with observation and guided art activities! Being surrounded by nature boosts wellness and mood, so let's get outside and create.
We'll explore the gardens of the Chittenden Locks in Ballard. The grounds at the Locks offer a host of trees and plants, both native and ornamental. Join me for a sensory walk through the garden collections and guided art and journaling activities that engage each of the five main senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste.
Goals: use outdoor creative activities to connect with nature and enjoy outdoor time
Activities: Create a rubbing or tracing of fallen plant pieces (leaves, petals, branches), make patterns with found objects, and make prose poems based on observations at the park
Outcomes: participants will receive a copy of the Connect to Nature with Art ‘zine, learn ways that anyone, artist or otherwise, can find greater relaxation and wellness through creating outside, and create 1-3 art/art journal pages.
Class includes a small drawing kit with notepad, pencil, graphite stick, eraser and sharpener.
Open to participants 14+
Teresa Stern is a NW artist, curator and environmental activist who explores the human connection to nature. Her impressionistic landscape paintings highlight the beauty and healing power of favorite local places, with the goal of inspiring conservation, wellness, and climate action. Teresa also founded The Art of Sustainability, an eco-art curation project, to bridge her ecological and art passions by highlighting eco art from around the world. Teresa’s latest project, Connect to Nature with Art, seeks to help others deepen their own relationship to nature through mindful observation and creative activities.
