Experience Nature As Healer
March 9, 2023, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm,
Burlington Library hosts my virtual 90-minute workshop.
Preregister http://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=8887&EventID=485313&PK=
The NATURE AS HEALER program will step up your ability to tap into Nature's restorative essence, whether you live in a rural, urban, or suburban community.
- Deepen your capacity to tap into Nature's powers to guide, calm, and restore; the why and how will be investigated and experienced in this program.
- Self-evidence is key to revitalizing our sensory connections to the healing power of Nature. You will investigate our vast potential as sensitive human beings. Learn why sensitivity is a real asset for those of us living in a culture whose numbing speed and information excess collude, often leaving exhaustion and dispiritedness in its wake.
- Refine your innate ability to receive and respond to the web of life's brilliant wisdom in this workshop. You will learn how sensory-ecology has empowered and enlightened those living in a consumer-based culture.
Nature As Healer virtual program
Woodbury Public Library, CT
January 24, 2023
Virtual program 6:30 PM - 8:00 pm
Revisuals Fine Art Animation
Video Wall Exhibit
On view: Dec 12, 2022 - Feb 25, 2023.
Opening Reception: Saturday January 21st, 2023 • 3-5pm
Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Falmouth Rd. Cotuit MA, USA
VIDEO WALL EXHIBIT… It’s a delight to contribute my animations to this six-animation reel of animated fine art—many thanks to the Cotuit Center for the Arts for establishing their new Video Wall program. Special thanks to curator, Karen LaFleur.
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The Cotuit Center for the Arts VIDEO WALL PROGRAM presents REVISUALS - animated artworks by e
The Cotuit Center for the Arts Video Wall Program screens national, regional, and international Fine Art Animations and Moving Image Artworks. The Video Wall is part of the Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit MA, USA.
The Annual MoCA L.I.ghts 2022 | Anything Glows transforms downtown Patchogue into L.I.’s only immersive, open-air museum with site-specific projected installations on both modern & historic architecture throughout the downtown to be viewed by the public at no cost on foot, by car, or live-streamed. Oct. 13-16, 2022. Below is a still frame from my animation, Making Light.
My animation, Stardust, will be shown from October to December 2022 at the Art Gallery at the Visual & Performing Arts Center of Western Connecticut University in Danbury, Connecticut.
This large-scale exhibit will occur simultaneously in several locations in the Hudson Valley of New York and Connecticut.
Address Earth Art Expo © 2022 Bibiana Huang Matheis, Founder of Inspiration Art Group International and Curator, writes - "We are at a critical juncture in the history of our planet where recognizing our common interests and shared well-being are vital. As artists, we have the ability to speak to these deeper truths and bring our vision to the wider world. This exhibition celebrates varied aspects of the planet home we all share. Artists will address ecology, sustainability, climate change, endangered species, clean water, deforestation, humanity – or any other subject."
Visit Inspiration Art Group International's website for details of all exhibitions https://inspirationartgroup.org/exhibitions/address-earth-art-expo/
September 2022
My piece, Hatching Light, was juried into this diverse, international exhibition. The artists offer diverse and beautiful perspectives on the exhibition's challenging theme, LIMINAL II. Dive into the minds and hearts of the creatives whose works comprise this compelling show. Visit this virtual gallery https://www.verumultimumartgallery.com/exhibitions
Woodbridge Library will host my experiential workshop, Nature As Healer Wednesday, August 10, 6:30 - 8:00 pm. This is a live outdoor presentation. Inclement weather or COVID issues arise, the program will be held on Zoom.
Register online https://woodbridge.lioninc.org/events/
or call Phone: 203-389-3433Fax: 203-389-3457
10 Newton Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
Opening May 14, 2022
The exhibition is up through May 14, 2023
My animation, Homage to Taraxacum, is one of a beautifully curated exhibition. This show features ArtWomen@Work Artists.
Alice Harrison | Bridget Pavalow | Carol Schwartz | Cassandra Jennings Hall | Corinne Lapin-Cohen | Ellen Pliskin | Jenna Lash | Karen Fitzgerald | Karen LaFleur | Khadija Zizi | Leslie Connito | Lisa Breznak | Marlow Shami | Mimi Czajka Graminski | Nalini Rau | Nancy Tucker | Niki Ketchman | Osiris Munir | Siena Gillann Porta | Sophie Simpson | Tanya Kukucka | Pam Smilow
My work, My View: If humans were one inch tall, was juried into Abstraction Exhibition. The show is live and online at the Cotuit Center for the Arts. Exhibition. Gallery: 4404 Falmouth Rd., Cotuit, MA. The show closes on November 14th.
Flight, my digital work, was juried into Verum Ultimum Gallery's Abstract Catalyst #8 Exhibition. The show has compelling and imaginative artwork!
https://www.verumultimumartgallery.com/general-4
Homeland 1, archive print, juried into Cotuit Center for the Arts virtual Show, "All in the Family".
Manross Library, Bristol
The Nature of Mindful Living and Eating https://www.marlowshami.com/workshops-talks
The food of life is found on our plates (or bag of take-out) and within five integral life areas.
How you fulfill your unique needs depends on understanding what floats your boat! You are one of eight billion people living on this beautiful planet. Our consumer culture preaching one size fits all makes discovering what gives or dissipates our life energies a challenge. Why not turn the challenge into a game of detection. Mindfulness, the current term for an age-old wisdom practice, is key.
Wells International Foundation in partnership with the Hammond Museum, "Musutal Us" video was juried into Pandemic Stories through Art, a Conversation.
The Nature Of Mindful Eating & Living
Hosted by thee
a live onsite workshop for adults
Monday August 23, 2021 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
The Bethlehem Public Library
32 Main Street South
Bethlehem, Connecticut 06751
203 266-7510,7
Free, please preregister
Nature As Healer a virtual workshop hosted by Derby Necl Library, Derby Neck, CT.
Thursday, July 8
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
This is a Zoom event. To register, call the library at 203-734-1492 or email headlibrarian@biblio.org
Join us on Thursday, July 8th at 6:30 PM and discover how everyday-anywhere nature can guide, calm, inform and restore you. This program, presented by Marlow Shami, includes a guided meditation designed to relax the mind and develop sensitivity to the natural world.
Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden
28 Deveau Road, North Salem, NY 10560
Nature As Healer
Saturday August 14, 2021
9:30 a.m. tea
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Nature As Healer Workshop
This is a live, onsite, workshop. Preregister https://www.hammondmuseum.org/events-calendar
Step up your ability to tap into Nature’s restorative essence, whether you live in a rural, urban, or suburban community. Deepen your capacity to tap into its powers to guide, calm, inform, and restore — the why and how will be investigated and experienced in this program.
Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden
28 Deveau Road, P.O. Box 326, North Salem, NY 10560
914-669-5033
info@hammondmuseum.org
Three pieces of my figurative were juried into this diverse and inspiring Exhibition.
Digital Exhibition of Visual and Performance Art on view April 16 - June 30, 2021.
The climate crisis is upon us, but we still have a limited time to make an impact. Use your art to lead the way! Artists added their art, poetry, music, short story, spoken word, performance, or multidisciplinary work to show their response to the crisis, to envision a new world, and to motivate positive action. This exhibition was an invitation, open to all, of work in any medium as defined below.
Artists used their climate inspire art to:
• Inspire Action.
• Capture beauty.
• Document this time of change.
• Help others imagine a better future.
• Stand in solidarity with those on the front lines.
• Mourn our collective losses.
• Share their unique vision.
• Showcase their hopes or dreams
My poem Entering the Day was juried into this virtual exhibition. I read my poem live.
The thirty artists that comprise this show offer a wide variety of expression and media in an exceptionally beautiful exhibition.
Curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis 黄家璧
Hosted By Poet Gold
Saturday, April 3, 2021 - Friday, April 1, 2022
My video short, Mutual Us, was curated into Hammond's March Virtual Exhibition alongside thirty fantastic artists hailing from around the globe!
Curated monthly exhibition of artwork by Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden artist members, viewable on the virtual exhibition webpage. Each exhibit will stay online for a year.
The monthly theme is based on a color painting by Bibiana Huang Matheis. Each month the painting is posted to use as a muse or inspiration for submissions.
Artist Reception:
Saturday, March 6, 2021, 10:00 am New York Time
Curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis
Hosted by Poet Gold
Artist Reception is on the first Saturday of the month at 10:00 am New York Time and streaming live on Facebook.
LIVE EVENT BROADCAST ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/hammondmuseum/events/
The virtual Artist Reception will be live on Facebook.
Join curator Bibiana Huang Matheis, event host Poet Gold, and virtual tech Douglass Ridgeway, as well as this month's exhibition artists. See the first broadcast of the month's virtual exhibition montage and be there at the Artist's Spotlight where we feature one artist.
Above ~ "Delight" by MarlowShami
February 6, 2021 – February 2021 Hammond Museum
Virtual Art Exhibition Group Member show
Curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis
The Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden in North Salem, New York, is an eminent cultural institution with generous exhibit spaces and a serene sculpture garden. Art exhibitions, musical performances, Japanese tea ceremonies, and other activities are just a few of the many cultural events offered. It is a unique and inspiring museum with a big heart, building an artist community locally and globally.
Virtual Exhibition
Curated monthly exhibition for Hammond Museum Artist members that will be viewable on the Hammond’s virtual exhibition website. Each exhibit will stay online for a year.
March 2, 2021, 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Virtual Program, Nature As Healer
Berlin Peck Library, 234 Kensington Road
860-828-7125
Nature as Healer with Marlow Shami - Step up your ability to tap into Nature’s restorative essence, whether you live in a rural, urban, or suburban community. Deepen your capacity to tap into its powers to guide, calm, inform, and restore — the why and how will be investigated and experienced in this program.
Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden
28 Deveau Road, P.O. Box 326, North Salem, NY 10560
914-669-5033
info@hammondmuseum.org
September 2020 - September, 2021 -Virtual Exhibition Artists - curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis
Kenneth Sean Golden
Carol Radsprecher
Karen LaFleur
Nancy Tucker
三木 祥子 Shoko Miki
Jackie Merritt
LaThoriel Badenhausen
Yvette Cohen
Sarah Haviland
Bridget Pavalow
Patricia Stuart
Stacey Schuman
Karen Allen
Linda Stillman
Asra Rán Björt
Hildreth B. Potts
Veronica C Wilkinson
Connie Freid
Nalini Rau
Leslie Pelino
Marlow Shami
Monroe Hodder
Melinda Tepler
Niki Ketchman
Miyuki Kido, 城戸みゆき
Mireya Samper
October 29, 2019, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Location: Woodbury Public Library
269 Main Street, Woodbury CT
Tel: 203-263-3502
Cost: Free, preregister
The food of life is found not only on our plates (or bag of take-out) but also within five integral life areas. Sustenance is found within the quality of our rest, companionship, novelty, exercise, and outdoor nature time.
How we fulfill our unique needs depends on understanding what floats our boat! Each of us is one of eight billion people living on this beautiful planet. Our consumer culture preaching one size fits all makes discovering what kinds of foods give or dissipate our life energies a challenge. Why not turn the challenge into a game of detection. Mindfulness, the current term for an age-old wisdom practice, is key.
Whether seeking a healthier weight, new friendship, struggling with depression, contending with a bully at work, or simply a wish to be outside more often, the obstacles preventing one from experiencing the change sought are found in the moment.
The Mindful Eating Meditation and Nature Ramble program is designed to provide the experience, information, and inspiration to help deepen understanding and awareness of the challenges and benefits of cultivating mindfulness of the five food groups of daily life.
Dress comfortably for indoor meditation and an outdoor nature ramble. Our afternoon together includes a keynote talk, guided meditation, outdoor nature activity, and nature’s healing touch (a form of energy medicine).
Location: Canton Library
40 Dyer Lane, Canton CT
Tel: 860-693-5800
View during library hours
The Ever-Expanding Body of Restoration Work
Artist Statement
Like words used to build a story, sensory attractions build my experience. I wait, listen, leap, stop, and begin again to collect, compose, wonder, experience.
Each mosaic-like piece within the Restoration series, captured during one of New England’s seasons, is a segment of one of hundreds of digital photographs taken for each piece.
The many hours spent outside in nature form the matrix upon which I build. The nature of this experiential process elicits a restorative response within me as the colors, character, smells, sounds, textures, and season direct my attention. Tuning into the sensory language of nature bestows both direction and joy in my process.
Most of the finished work within this series may appear to be symmetrical, but it is not. The composition is a reflection of the internal urgings to create balance, perfect imperfection.
Marlow works with a Canon D7 Mark 11. My canvas is digital. She utilizes Photoshop to piece together the final work.
Shami’s work is commissioned by private collectors and shown in solo and group regional and national juried shows.
Date: October 13, 2019 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: Ansonia Nature Center
90 Deerfield Lane, Ansonia, CT
Tel: 203-736-1053
Cost: $20. preregistration required
This 90-minute workshop is designed for adults seeking inspirational guidance and healing restoration within their daily life.
Both the wisdom of elder/earth-based cultures as well as recent empirical research in the fields of ecopsychology, environmental psychology, mindfulness-based stress reduction, meditation, and energy medicine, form this program's foundation.
Empirical studies conducted over the past twenty years confirm that contact with the natural world and meditation can lift your spirits, reduce anxiety, alleviate pain, increase brain function, and help cultivate a sense of belonging and compassion.
In this program, beautiful and compelling images support Marlow’s focus on the healing wisdom we humans can acquire from the natural world
Learn about and experience the simple power of nature’s wisdom and healing effects through this talk, a deep-guided meditation, and compelling outside experiential activity.
Location: Harwinton Public Library
80 Bently Drive, Harwinton, CT
Tel: 860-485-9113 preregister
Time 10:00 - 11:30 am
Immerse Yourself in a Healing Guided Meditation
This talk, illustrated with beautiful compelling images, is followed by a powerful guided meditation, and one simple outdoor activity. Nature As Healer is designed to provide information, insight, and tools that help each of us deal with the challenges and rewards of connecting with nature, anywhere! -- no matter how rushed, messy, or stressful your life is!
I urge you to attend this presentation. You have everything to gain.
~ Harry Ainsworth President, Litchfiled Hills Audubon Society
I got more from this short, guided meditation and activity than I ever dreamed I would.
~Mary Danboise, Director of the Nature Center at RMSP, NY
The beautiful presentation offered a way to connect with nature on a profound and personal level. Fabulous!
~Susan Piel, Woodbury Public Library
I loved the information and guided meditation. I haven’t felt so calm for a long time.
~Jackie Kutuer, Teacher
Sunday January 27, 2018, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Genesis Spiritual Life & Conference Center
53 Mill Street
Westfield, MA 01085
Phone: 413.562.3627
Preregistration is required. Fee $40.00. Follow this link to register
The food of life is found not only on our plates (or bag of take-out) but also within five integral life areas. Sustenance is found within the quality of our rest, companionship, novelty, exercise, and outdoor nature time too.
How we fulfill our unique needs depends on understanding what floats our boat! Each of us is one of eight billion people living on this beautiful planet. Our consumer culture preaching one size fits all makes discovering what kinds of foods give or dissipate our life energies a challenge. Why not turn the challenge into a game of detection. Mindfulness, the current term for an age-old wisdom practice, is key.
Whether seeking a healthier weight, new friendship, struggling with depression, contending with a bully at work, or simply a wish to be outside more often, the obstacles preventing one from experiencing the change sought are found in the moment.
The Mindful Eating Meditation and Nature Ramble program is designed to provide the experience, information, and inspiration to help deepen understanding and awareness of the challenges and benefits of cultivating mindfulness of the five food groups in daily life.
Visual Memoirs and Restoration Exhibition 1/3/10-1/30/10 Litchfield, CT. Two bodies of work in a solo show at the Gallery in the Oliver Wolcott Library, Litchfield, CT.