The MASKS OF THE GODDESS Project
with Lauren Raine
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
3 pm Eastern Daylight Time
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"Myth comes alive as it enters the cauldron of evolution, drawing new life from storytellers who shape it." --Elizabeth Fuller, the Independent Eye Theatre
"I’ve always seen masks as "vessels for our stories". When I went to Bali to study mask arts I was privileged to produce collaborative masks with Balinese mask makers while there, and I returned inspired by their traditions of sacred Temple masks, masks that “belong to the gods”. In 1999 I was commissioned to create 30 multi-cultural masks of Goddesses for Reclaiming’s 20th annual Spiral Dance. As I researched worldwide feminine mythologies for the "Masks of the Goddess" collection, I found myself in a grand conversation that continually grew as colleagues and communities - dancers, storytellers, ritualists, psychologists and theologians, used the masks, each bringing new meaning to a universal heritage of sacred stories by “embodying” the many faces of the Goddess. The Collection travelled throughout the U.S. with many different communities and individuals for over 20 years, and is the subject of a self-published book. In 2019 the Masks of the Goddess Project was formally closed with a performance and an exhibit of the Collection at HerChurch in San Francisco." Learn more about the Masks of the Goddess Project here.
Lauren Raine. MFA, is an artist and writer known for her "Masks of the Goddess" Collection that traveled throughout the U.S. for over 20 years. In 2015 the Collection was presented at the Parliament of World Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has also created the projects "Spider Woman's Hands" and "Our Lady of the Shards." She received the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center Fellowship and has been a resident artist at Henry Luce Center for the Arts Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C, Cherry Hill Seminary, and Coreopsis Journal of Myth and Theater. See more of her work on her website.
"Like the Spider Woman herself, Lauren has become one with the work of her hands. It is unusual to find a talented artist who is also sublimely articulate about her inspiration, her study, and her realization."
---Sarah Gorman, THE CREATIVE SPIRIT CENTER, Midland, MI
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