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