Art is Moving's: Art Break Day's August Newsletter.

8/28/2019

Here is our newsletter from my Non-Profit Art is Moving. Our epic 9th Annual Art Break Day is happening on 9/6/19.

Two women can make a difference, but all together we can rock the world.
Over 58,000 Art Breaks so far!

Hey there, it’s Lisa, one of the Co-founding Directors of Art is Moving. I always get reflective during the month of August as our annual Art Break Day draws near. Today I wanted to share these reflections and a bit of our history with you.

Art is Moving began as an art collaboration with the goal of connecting more people with art and connecting the art world with more people.

We had our work cut out for us.

In 2008, when this adventure began, Lauren and I noticed a lack of art interactivity in museums, galleries, and other such art spaces. People were just passive viewers, quickly glancing at each artwork. Viewers were benefiting, for sure, but we wanted them to continue feeling the power of art after their visit.

If art museums weren’t going to give people the opportunity to feel the positive impact of making art, what, as two artists, could we do to help?

Why not bring the art making to the people?

It sounded good to us! So, over the years we’ve done just that.

By creating several cutting edge projects including ARTcart, Art in Your Pocket, and Art and Everything Calendar we’ve made art more accessible so everyone has an opportunity to take an art break and make art part of their daily life.

What better way to connect people with art and connect art with people than to have an annual global art event?

Art Break Day is a dream come true for me.

I dream of a world where the collective consciousness creates together. What would happen to our world if, all at once, everyone’s heart was on creative fire? To me, it feels like the interconnectedness of the World Wide Web, but with art making.

#ArtBreakDay is here again!
Let’s #MakeArtWithTheWorld
What began in 2011 as a San Francisco Bay Area event across 5 communities has been celebrated in over 240 communities. With the amazing help of 847 passionate and committed volunteers, Art Break Day has been and continues to be a global art movement.
We're excited to welcome 9 new registered sites to this year's 9th annual Art Break Day!

JNJ Craftworks / Verona, WI
Dogwood Pottery / Richlands, NC
Creekside Counseling Group / Capistrano, CA
The Accidental Artist / Jacksonville, NC
The Accidental Artist of New Bern / New Bern, NC
Wine & Design - Art Buzz Kids Jacksonville / Jacksonville, NC
TUGfat (ThankyoUG-d forallthethings) / Escondido, CA
Ouro Studio / Los Angeles, CA
Bartholomew County Public Library / Columbus, IN

And, let me give a super duper giant shout out to the amazing Heather Parker and Floriopolis!
Stop by one of 52 LOCATIONS in Historic St. Andrews, Florida to enjoy a variety of different options to Take An Art Break!
It’s not too late to register your Art Break Day Site!

CLICK HERE.
Why Register? Trust us, it feels good to connect with the whole global Art Break Day crew. And, we love knowing who is making a positive impact with art in their community. We want to send you a virtual high five and give you a shout out whenever we can. Plus, we have this really cool map that we’d love to pin you on.

Can't host Art Break Day this year?

That's ok!

Copy and Share this placard, take an art break, and encourage your friends and family to join the fun!

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Lisa Rasmussen MFA is the Founder and Director of the Harmonia Institute. Lisa Rasmussen—artist, educator, curator, life coach, arts and healing practitioner, and art advocate—believes art can change and heal the world.

Lisa is the Co-Founder and Practitioner of Artemis Sacred Journeys. Which women's empowerment retreats to Tinos Greece. Rasmussen also served as Executive Director and Co-Founder of Art 4 All People and AY Atelier Art, an international Center for arts and consciousness in Malibu, CA. She is also Co-Founder/Co-Director of the non-profit, Art is Moving and International Art Break Day, an annual community arts event that has been held in the U.S., India, Mexico, and West Africa.

Rasmussen is an award-winning professional painter, who has been represented in galleries in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. As well as Lisa’s work has been in numerous solo and group exhibits and publications. For her painting is a very visceral, physical, and metaphysical process. Rasmussen’s paintings have been called abstract expressionism, with a spiritual twist. Her paintings reflect her holistic worldview and her deep connection with the natural world. For Rasmussen, art making is a transcendental experience. When she paints, Rasmussen taps into a force greater than herself; a force that creates through her. Each painting is a product of her dance with divinity. Through her process she hopes to invoke in herself and the viewer a deeper connection to the world within and around us through reflection and inspiration. Early on Lisa developed a thirst for travel and distant cultures. A key conceptual element of her artistic process is the study and travel to ancient cultures and sacred sites around the world. Some of her travel adventures include Nepal, Greece, Egypt, Peru, Ireland, and Brazil. She has also lived and taught English in the mountains of South, China, as well as she had studied antiquities, the Art of the Renaissance, and Ceramics in Florence, Italy.

Rasmussen is also known as a pioneering and passionate arts educator. For many years, she has taught art to residents of under-served, at-risk communities. In 2006, she created the Transformative Art Program at a mental health institute in Oakland, CA for emotionally traumatized youth, ages 5-14. Her art therapy program to create public youth art installations and gallery exhibits garnered awards, grants and media attention.

Rasmussen worked as a fine arts consultant at the prestigious Merrill Chase Gallery in Chicago and The Weinstein Gallery in San Francisco. She also managed The Red Door Gallery & Collective, a grassroots art-reach gallery in Oakland, CA. Rasmussen earned her BA in Sculpture and Ceramics and her MFA in Arts and Consciousness from John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA. She earned several academic awards, including Graduate Student of the Year, in 2008, and Alumni of the Year, in 2013.

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11/10/2019 01:17:20 pm

Art has many forms and art is a very special topic for me because it shows the individuality of each person. A way to be ourselves and be the one that will be idolized by many people. I am also surprised that singing and dancing is a form of art and according to my research this is a way to show the special asset that we have. An asset that tells the whole story of our personality. I want to make my own craft, a craft that will be the our own pride in the world.

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11/27/2019 07:26:08 am

I am very happy to read this when“Your dream is fulfill” because behind to achieve goal there is lot of efforts of the people. So can please share your key learning who could help to others to fulfill their dreams?

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