Medicine Painting: Connection to Self, Others and the Earth with Andrea Sauer

Join Andrea Sauer for a restorative day, focused on intentional creativity, mindfulness, and nature-based healing practices. Align with the energies of Fall, connect with yourself and others. Carve out time to tend to your own seeds of wisdom and lean into the joy of playful and intentional creativity. Find the space and time to metabolize grief and process the challenging times we are living in. Learn new practices that spark delight. Leave with a new practice to support you long after the class. No painting experience necessary! All materials are included in the price. Appropriate for ages 15 and up.

Andrea Sauer is an artist who focuses on color and composition. She works both realistically and abstractly, predominantly in oils and watercolors. All her paintings focus on her deep appreciation for the natural world and integrate her study of shamanism into her practice. She enjoys pushing lush colors and playing with the media in innovative ways. Her paintings have won many awards and have been exhibited across the U.S. More recently, Sauer has combined her twenty years of teaching art in the public school system with her understanding of trauma and the brain’s rewire ability to create a class that focuses on using painting as a meditative practice. She explores with her classes ways that indigenous cultures around the world have used intentional creativity and medicine painting practices to gain insight and heal lingering personal wounds. Beyond a B.F.A. and a M.A.T. from Maryland Institute, College of Art her most proud achievements in the art world was to be chosen by Los Angeles County Museum of Art as one of the top 12 Emerging Artists in the U.S. and being selected to hang with Andy Warhol and Wolf Kahn in the U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan through the Art in Embassies Program -U.S. State Department. Sauer’s studio is in Bel Air, Maryland. andreasauer.net