Dec 20, 2011
Create and write your way into the New Year!
Looking for a gift for yourself?
Julie Kesti and Sarina LaMarche are excited to announce our
Create Your Year Retreats:
* Two fabulous retreats to support you in making 2012 an amazing year of growth, care and creativity.
* Both retreats include a shiatsu massage, wine and treats, and time for reflection, journaling and art-making.
A Year of Self-Care
Saturday, January 7th from 4-8 pm
Create a beautiful portable or hangable calendar to help you commit to a year of self-care in 2012. During this fun and creative retreat you will make develop a theme and an image to aspire to, and a wellness activity to participate in each month. You’ll be able to hang the calendar, stand it by your bed or carry it with you throughout the year. This keepsake will also have room to add pages for journaling or notes during the year.
Expect lots of hands-on time with various art materials, and lots of inspiration! Commit to a year of groundedness cultivated through self-care.
Reserve your spot here.
A Guide for Your Year: Reflecting back and looking forward
Saturday, January 14th from 4-8 pm
Explore through writing, collage, drawing, doodling or whatever you please the things you’d like to let go of from 2011, what gifts you want to bring with you into 2012, and what you want to create in the New Year. This retreat will involve lots of writing, with creative prompts to guide you in your reflection & get your pen moving, followed up by building images from your writing. These images (and writing, too, should you choose) will also be bound into a book you can continue to work with throughout the new year. Get inspired and start your year with a little more clarity!
Writing prompts, creative inspiration, and all supplies provided.
Reserve your spot here.
Fees:
$125 for one retreat
$200 for both
Payment and registration required in advance. Please register by January 2nd, and we’ll email you about payment.
Minimum of 5 people per retreat. Bring a friend!
Oct 24, 2011
below is a sneak preview of an email of GREAT IDEAS i’ll be sending out later this week!
don’t get my emails? sign up here: http://eepurl.com/cSltM
don’t worry, i won’t bug you often. ;)
–julie
ART WITH A BONUS!
BUY ANY WORK OF ART FOR SALE IN MY SHOW
(currently up at Chakra Khan)
AND GET A VOUCHER FOR $15 OFF ANY
BODYWORK SESSION WITH ME!
(Vouchers valid for 20 days or until January 15th, which ever comes first.)
WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR PACKAGE!
A SPECIAL DEAL THRU 12/15
> Schedule a “What Friends Are For” Session online via juliekesti.com
> You and a friend come to Chakra Khan (same day, two sessions in a row–bring a book or a journal to read or write while u wait)
> You each get an hour Shiatsu!
> You each get a super-fun super-special gift to take home, including a coupon for your next bodywork session (yippee!)
PRICE: $140 + tax (i.e. $70 each)
the EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM!
IF YOU KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED
AS YOU CRUISE THE IVY BUILDING
BEFORE OR AFTER YOUR NEXT SESSION,
YOU’LL FIND THERE IS A VERY SPECIAL DEAL
WAITING FOR YOU ON TUESDAY MORNINGS!!
I can’t help you any more than that,
you’ll really have to look.
;)
Oct 16, 2011
Thanks to all who joined Karen and I at Chakra Khan on Friday night–it was a lovely opening. It was wonderful to share the work with friends, with Matthew’s family, and with strangers who stopped by, who were in the building for the Ivy Arts Fest. Many kind words were exchanged, and even people who never knew of or met Matthew were touched by the vibrancy and joy contained in his drawings. Oh, how I miss that sweet boy.
If you weren’t able to make it out, I am thinking I’ll have another reception later in the year–perhaps in December. Stay tuned–I will be glad to share the work with you then.
See you soon.
love,
j
Sep 27, 2011
I spent the afternoon today hanging art at Chakra Khan—my art this time!
I’m excited to share this work with you. It has two parts. One is a series of colorful acrylic gouache and oil pastel drawings. The other is a series of drawings I made from my nephew Matthew’s drawings and writing. I am really curious how they will read to other people, as they are so close and personal to me. Read the statement for the pieces below, and then come in and see the work. We’ll have a reception as part of the Ivy Arts Fest on 10/14 from 7-9pm, but I plan to have another event or two while the work is up as well.
love,
julie
THE MATTHEW PIECES
Matthew K Touching a Maple Tree
The bulk of this show is a series of drawings co-created with my nephew Matthew. Matthew died in December of 2008, just a few days before my birthday. He hadn’t been seriously ill and his death was completely unexpected.
Matthew filled notebook after notebook with drawings, lists and stories in his 9 years here. I took a selection of these pages, reproduced them, and used them to start a series of new drawings.
I have worked on these drawings for three years. After making the reproductions, it took awhile to begin. Once I did, there were lots of breaks. The work was joyful at times, but of course also difficult. It is nice to be “with” Matthew in this way. But it is so hard not to be “with” him in the usual way.
These drawings are guesses–what might Matthew have been doing with this image? What do these lines mean? What compelled him to list out every title of the Box Car Children? I follow his lines and fill in his spaces, making my own marks and in the meantime hopefully conveying some of his brightness, his cleverness, his strange and beautiful heart that is still connected to mine. It is not a replica of what he would have made. It is something I am making, me in this time-space where he no longer is, me as part of the many who have been left behind without him, trying to manage as the years move forward.
These are an attempt to stay with him. To go back with him and embrace who he is and to learn what he is like and to hold him near.
Aug 22, 2011
a new series is emerging. nice to be done moving and back to making!
these are all pretty brand new–so, in-progress.
enjoy!
–j
new series begins
new series begins
new series begins
new series begins
new series begins
new series begins
new series begins
new series begins
some sort of cactus? new series begins
Aug 9, 2011
I’m trying out a fun, new experiment. Please check it out and tell your friends. Thanks!
mysteryARTgift.com
–julie
Jul 26, 2011
As some of you know, I’m elbow-deep in the process of packing up my house. Uff-da, what a chore! More news is forthcoming on my move, but in the meantime I wanted to let you know I am selling some of my art super cheap! It is too sad to send them to storage to freeze/melt/freeze/melt the next few years–i’d rather have them find a home.
Here is a link if you are interested. Or pass it along if you know anyone who might be.
WARNING: some of the pics i took w/ my phone in the garage, so they are pretty terrible. ;)
Price info is listed in the caption. Contact me if you are interested–you can refer to the number in the caption.
https://picasaweb.google.com/iceartswap/ArtForSale?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCJPG_pb1zojNswE&feat=directlink
I’ll also be having a show at Chakra Khan at the end of the year…so you can always look for something then, too. :)
thanks!
julie
Jul 11, 2011
this is pretty awesome!
The Laundromat Project from The Quotidian on Vimeo.
Jun 15, 2011
This is awesome AND super-fun!
Don’t delay! Follow the link to Miranda July’s latest genius idea! She predicts your future on a giant color wheel.
Check it out! :)
–julie