fish art
Acrylic collage art, by Bucky Buckman, All In Jest, Santa Cruz, California

Current Workshops


The  Art of Dreamweaving I
: Web Design Is Visual Art. This workshop teaches the  fundamentals of Dreamweaver and CSS for web design with an emphasis on  elegant, provocative, and unusual visual presentation. We will create  websites that not only house visual art, but are visual art. We’ll explore  tools, resources and concepts for artists who want to use the web to reflect  their art as well as present it.


The  Art of Dreamweaving II
: Storytelling on the Web. This workshop will use  Dreamweaver and CSS to design narrative-fiction architecture. We will  consider what it takes to create a website that successfully houses  narrative fiction, and explore the impact of nonlinear, interactive, visual  design on narrative. We will also look at collaborative writing environments  and the role blogs might have in the future of fiction. (Can be adapted to  accommodate nonfiction and poetry.)


Healing the Wounded Imagination: Designed to strengthen the imagination, this workshop is not about the creation of external “product,” but rather about the process of internal alchemy. Our port of call is the nexus where our private inner world bumps against the creativity inherent in the universe—that mysterious font of synchronicity.  Our medium is language and story, the written and spoken word; our goal, the magic and power of authentic creativity—not because we long to become visionary artists per se but because we seek to deepen our capacity to consciously participate in the unfolding creativity of the universe, because we seek to ride the waves of creativity that are moving in our midst.