Excerpted from "You may not realize this, he said, but I can fly." by Cathy Williams                    831-477-1911     Email: Cathy Williams     © Cathy Williams 2000

Within each of us is the ability to create and to find joy and connection in the process of creating. In an Art & Soul class, you learn the stages of creativity (called the Creative Process). You are led into paint, clay, pastels and collage, each journey bringing you to a unique expression. You explore what stops you. You learn ways to use the power of the Critic to enhance and deepen your creativity. Creative Process is an approach to artmaking that finds its source from within you. Once a week, for six weeks, you learn how to show up, get moving and follow where you're going until you get there. (You need not show up perfect. You need not show up good at it. You need not know what you are going to make.) Just show up. You're hopeful. You're scared. You're cynical. You eat at Taco Bell. Yes. It is astounding the way that artmaking ripples into a life, shifting it into a more satisfying balance. It is the small stone tossed into the lake of everyday. The ripples reach into your relationships, your connection with your work, your way of planting a garden. The ripples create changes, reveal appreciations, suggest possibilities that were perhaps not discernible before. Art & Soul is about finding the breath in your body and discovering the truest story of your life.