Need to really digest this.....

Lisa:

I am truly amazed at what you have accomplished and the level to which you
have taken our art program. I get a big smile every time I see an email,
knowing that you are once again doing great things for our kids. It is truly
transformative in their lives, and in ours.

Thank you,

Chris
Christine Stoner-Mertz, CEO

And thank you for being the source of its creation!

Chris
Christine Stoner-Mertz, CEO

Looking forward to it Lisa - thanks! And thanks again for your
responsiveness in helping brighten up our hallway. I really appreciate it...

Chris
Christine Stoner-Mertz, CEO

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"my experience of creating with these extraordinary children, two of my core
beliefs about art have been affirmed. Art is intrinsic to the nurturance of
the human spirit and art’s true essence is transformative.”
Lisa
ArtTeacher at LCC

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Lisa,
Again thank you this is wonderful for our students!!!! It just keeps getting
better and better.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME...... not just the art but our children's comment's .... simply amazing!
val
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Lisa

I am so excited about this! Thanks for doing this!
Vinya S.V.

In Honor of my Dad

Every time I visit my Dad's house in Ozarks I feel I am on a sabbatical. I can breathe and center myself. Although, this time was very different my Dad is sick and we had to take him into the VA for some tests.

This image is piece a created after my healing run down to the lake. Honoring the place and my connection to it.

Value!

HS Student of the Year Nomination:
To Lisa Rasmussen:

Lisa,

Five years ago, you entered the Department of Arts & Consciousness as a student in the Transformative Arts program. As your creative process unfolded, your paintings grew ever more compelling. By the end of three years, you transferred to the MFA program to more deeply engage your artwork. During this period, you continued to develop a program in transformative arts for clients at the Lincoln Child Center in Oakland. Your program bridged the gap between art as a transformative tool and art as a form of cultural expression. Your Lincoln Child Care Center students exhibited their work in a Sausalito Gallery and were the focus of an annual benefit for the Center. Because of your dedicated and creative work with the students at Lincoln Child Center, they have experienced the invaluable joy of self-expression and the all-important process of being seen in their fuller humanity. You have been a profound, transformative influence in their lives.



As an artist, your work has gone far beyond the limits of traditional painting. Your final MFA Exhibition entitled Caol Ait (Thin Spaces) reveals the full scope and power of your artwork, moving beyond the genre of painting into installation and environmental art, as well as movement, ritual and sculpture. In your teaching and in your artwork you celebrate the realization that art lives at the edges of life and spirit. You explore and then dissolve the boundaries between inner and outer, self and other and in so doing represent the highest ideals of Holistic Studies. You are an outstanding individual, and we are proud to nominate you as Student of the Year. Congratulations and best wishes for continued success.



Peter M. Rojcewicz, PHD

Dean, School of Holistic Studies