Description
Saturday Studio Visit: Mysteries Revealed: Meaning and Magic (A Field Trip to South Whidbey Island)
As we explore Jerry Wennstrom’s thousand square foot Whidbey Island gallery, covered floor to ceiling with art, he and Marilyn will share the mystery, and magic behind the making of many of Jerry’s art pieces. Jerry will answer questions and perhaps demonstrate how he creates some of the details for his art pieces. Marilyn as Jerry’s partner and Muse will speak about her experience and her, sometimes, inadvertent involvement in the process of Jerry’s art.
TRAVEL DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS WILL BE EMAILED TO ALL REGISTRANTS
Marilyn C. Strong has a B.A. in Religion and Adult Education through Antioch University West and an M.A. in Spirituality and Culture from Matthew Fox’s Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality. Marilyn has worked in the areas of educational design and development and in group facilitation, ritual, music, and celebration. As a Jungian-oriented spiritual counselor, an ordained minister, a ceremonialist, a singer, and a trained Death Midwife, Marilyn leads workshops, facilitates weddings, memorial services, and home and family funerals. After years of exploration and teaching on the Divine Feminine, she currently offers on-line courses and leads small groups of women on pilgrimage to Black Madonna/Mary Magdalene sites in France.
Jerry Wennstrom was born in New York 1950 and lived-out the first half of his art career there. In 1979, realizing his limits as a studio painter, he destroyed his large body of art, gave away his possessions, and trusted the spirit of creation to carry his life. He threw himself out into the new life, penniless and homeless, for fifteen years. He “returned to the world” on Whidbey Island, met his now-wife, Marilyn Strong, and began doing art again. Jerry’s unusual life story, was made into the Parabola documentary film, In the Hands of Alchemy, 2000 and Sentient Publications books, The Inspired Heart: An Artist’s Journey of Transformation, 2002 and Wennstrom’s magnum opus, A Second Wind: Art Resurrected, 2024, The latter picks up the story and shows the work that emerged in the last twenty-five years. Celebratory in nature, this work integrates joyful embodiment and reveals the golden thread of a long and magical journey.
Jerry Wennstrom & Marilyn Strong
Website – www.handsofalchemy.com
