Give Me Strength

Judy Shintani, California-based "art facilitator for all ages", keeps a blog called Kitsune.

This week, she shares and reflects on a recent visual art class for Elders:

I enjoy facilitating an Elders’ art class in San Francisco every Friday. For the past 6 weeks we have been focusing on mandalas. I discussed the sacredness of the circle symbol in many cultures, in nature, and in religion. We designed rose window mandalas based on the cathedral stained glass windows of Europe. We made shield mandalas to give us strength.

There is a terrific slide-show of some of the work, which involves leaves, petals and other gorgeous organics. Also, note in her description of the class that she is not working solo:

For the eco mandala inspiration, my two high school aids presented a report on Andy Goldsworthy and showed how he used things found in the environment, nature, to create installations.

Let's go where she is.