Groups of (4-12 participants in each location) meeting in various locations in the Pioneer Valley area. The groups will be meeting in locations in and around Amherst, Greenfield, Holyoke, Northampton, Montague and other towns. The participants will focus on exploring the interrelationships between art, meditation, healing and spirituality with a focus on visual art. Through the visual arts and meditation we will explore the ways that movement and stillness, sound, poetry and spirituality all can …

Over a year ago New Craft Artists in Action team captain launched MOLTENi Net Works in Boston. Bringing together makers and players in collaborative exchange, the project aims to create functional, hand-crafted basketball nets for neglected public hoops. Dr. James Naismith created the game of basketball in Springfield, MA in 1891. He posed a recycled peach basket as the first hoop. Now nets help break a ball’s fall, give players a sense of depth for good aim, and allow refs to see that a bas …

Movement and Creativity are vital to our lives. When we direct our focus to deepening connections to ourselves, each other and life itself, our experience of life becomes fertile, rich, vibrant. Movement: classes, workshops, experiments, performances, curiosity, discovery. Creativity: art, music, process, creation, discussion, experiencing, learning. The body is the physical aspect of the personality and movement is the personality made visible.- Mary Starks Whitehouse http://www.tiffanysankary …