KATE CHURCH

Well, now that March has come, so has winter ! We have had a very mild winter but with the arrival of March came snow storms and lovely white things are falling gently outside my studio windows.

Winter is my time to hibernate. I am loving the studio we built for me at the back of our house, one that has a story with it which I will save for another writing day …

Here, in my sanctuary, I have been hiding out while the dark and long winter season holds me happily inside it’s walls. This winter, we are finally NOT moving (I counted five moves in five years) and I have begun to work …

It has been a several months of working every day, and some of the new pieces are at the final stages of being built, and so I am posting some pictures of them here… some finished and some not q u i t e :

By next week I will be in the finishing stages of this heavenly time of winter space and will move into preparing costumes and materials for the classes I have coming up.

Teaching is another part of my life, separate from the studio as it takes me at least two weeks to prepare for a class and then followup takes another bit of time.

Speaking of teaching I have been asked to teach one more class in Chester here in Nova Scotia in April !

The class is four days, April 3-6th and is called Rabbit Spring. You can find the information at The Chester Art Center here: https://www.chesterartcentre.ca/services-1/rabbit-spring

Also, the summer course at The Lunenburg School of the Arts will be another week of the workshop ” The Memory Chair” which I am teaching in May, in Courtenay BC. The registration should be open soon, and the dates are August 21-25th. Keep an eye out for the summer workshops or join their mailing list for the notification when they do open registration… https://lunenburgarts.org/join-our-mailing-list/

Stepping between my deep space of work and the vivacious energy of teaching is not easy for me, so I have learned to simply focus on one or the other,

When I teach, I feed my spirit and my confidence, and always brings a huge gift of you, my wonderful students . . .

As always, thanks for listening xo