Chrissy Sie-Merritt

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An explorer of the sacredness of being, Chrissy Sie-Merritt expresses a passion for peeling away the layers of self and honours this process through her art practice. Her work is one of a personal healing journey. Intuitively, she creates marks using her whole body to express a moment in time or sits in quiet to allow ideas and images to rise from within. This physical conversation with the ebb and flow of life is her impetus to go deeper, exploring our connection to the natural rhythms of the world around and within us. These images are expressed with both charcoal and acrylic.
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Residing in East Braintree Manitoba, Chrissy has always been inspired by the cycles of nature and the connection of these rhythms within her life's journey. Chrissy studied Fine Art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has continued to work on her art career with Creative Manitoba since 2013, including mentoring local youth and creating art programs for all ages. Chrissy has shown her work in a solo and group setting at the Cre8ery Gallery in Winnipeg and the Reynolds Business Centre in Prawda. She has created various murals in and around the Whiteshell Provincial Park and was selected to be a guest artist and interior designer for a unique water themed moving gallery for Canada’s 150 celebration.
 
Langue (s): English
Classes scolaires pour lesquelles la programmation est prévue: Preschool / Early childhood, Primary (K - 3), Junior (4 - 6), Intermediate (7 - 8), Secondary

Cette personne offre une programmation en ligne

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Facilite les cours en groupe

  • 1 cours collectifs par semaine
  • Where group lessons are facilitated: At home, School
  • Arts organization(s) where lessons are facilitated:

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Offre des cours privés

  • 20 students
  • Where lessons are facilitated: At home, Online, Other

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Offre des services aux écoles

  • Arts communautaires
  • Éducation
  • Arts visuels

Featured Project

Mindfulness of Art and Movement

Mindfulness of Art and Movement
with Chrissy Sie-Merritt

 

In this workshop, artist and yoga instructor, Chrissy Sie-Merritt will guide students through an informative yoga session using both traditional yoga postures and intuitive movements to connect our body/mind relationship with a free flowing art experience.

Chrissy Sie-Merritt has developed her own intuitive, abstract artistic style that has been used in many workshops for all ages as a tool to move our thinking process, primarily from the head, to moving it into our bodies. This process helps to relieve stress, explore our creative thinking and discover ourselves in an organic, fluid way. Using this technique, students are able to move from thinking outside of themselves and the world around them to discovering the vast beauty of the world within.

During the workshop there is an opportunity to collaborate with other students in a connected movement practice. This practice prepares the students to create art work together that comes from a more intuitive, mindful and connected  experience. The focus is more on having fun making marks together and letting those marks guide the imagination. The students are then encouraged to work together to fill the spaces between the lines with colour to create a uniformed piece. This form often presents like a mandala, connecting the student’s personal experience into one large beautiful collaborative art piece. If time allows students are encouraged to create a personal intuitive piece with the same process of fluid movement.

The entire workshop is designed to be a calming, fun and meditative experience. The combination of art and movement offers insight to each students personal inner tool box that already lies within, empowering them to use mindfulness, compassion and their intuition in everyday life.

Elements of the workshop include:

  • exploring our brain / right/left brain actions
  • breath as a tool to calm and centre
  • feeling grounded in your body
  • how the body holds/carries our thoughts
  • fluid movement to relax the mind
  • listening, watching and honouring others
  • emotion in line and colour

Supplies Needed:

  • Large Paper: (48” or 36”wide rolls) for groups of 4 students per sheet
  • 1, 36” long sheet of paper per student
  • Multicolour Pastels: one box per group of 4
  • pencils: enough for each student to have 2 each
  • Yoga mats: one per student (15 available for use)

Chrissy Sie-Merritt / 204-918-5359 / southmoonarts@gmail.com / chrissysiemerritt.com

Profil mis à jour le: avril 3 2020

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