Wild Rose Teaching Artist

09/29/2026

04/11/2026

Let nature restore what life exhausts. 🌲

“A walk in nature walks the soul back home.” – Mary Davis

04/11/2026

𝙲𝙸𝚁𝙲𝙻𝙴𝚂 𝙾𝙵 𝙻𝙸𝙵𝙴

𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚃𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚜, 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜, 𝚂𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚜, 𝙲𝚒𝚛𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚜, 𝙻𝚘𝚘𝚙𝚜, 𝙿𝚞𝚕𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜, 𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜, 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚁𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚜. 𝙲𝚒𝚛𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎, 𝙱𝚘𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝙿𝚞𝚕𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝, 𝚅𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚃𝚘 𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎, 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚂𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙾𝚞𝚝𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚃𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎, 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝙰 𝚜𝚎𝚊 𝙾𝚏 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙻𝚞𝚌𝚒𝚍 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚜. 🌀 𝙿𝚘𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚞𝚣𝚢 𝙺𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚖

03/22/2026

In a garden, leaves fall, they dry, gather on the ground, and eventually we sweep them away.

We don’t do this with anger, neither with resentment, but just as part of tending the space.

We don’t look at the tree and think it betrayed us. We don’t curse it for doing what trees naturally do.

Leaves fall because that’s the season, but when it comes to people, we tend to forget this.

Someone (that someone can be us) disappoints us, someone makes a mistake, and others shed a version of themselves we once knew (or thought we knew), and suddenly we turn the entire tree into the problem.

Zen teachings often remind us that life moves in cycles: Growth, shedding, renewal.

People change. We change. Sometimes what falls away was simply part of a season that has ended. This doesn’t mean we ignore what needs cleaning, as boundaries still matter, and consequences do too. Just like the gardener still sweeps the leaves. But there is a difference between tending what has fallen and carrying bitterness toward the tree.

The idea here is to handle what needs to be handled without letting resentment take root.

Gardens (symbolically representing the psyche in this case) stay healthy not by stopping leaves from falling, but by learning how to care for what the seasons bring.

03/20/2026

Welcome to my page!
I am a local teaching artist. I am inspired by the story art tells. How architecture and story intersect in shape and form. I am interested in how the human experience is shaped by the environment as much as the way humans actually shape the world around them. My why comes from a simple idea: art enhances our understanding of our human emotions and how we move in the world around us can define our life story.

-We are like gardeners tending to our personal experiences and our community is like visitors to these spaces we create in our lives. Art is an essential element to how we see our world and how we share our inner experience. It can impact our intention and therefore our purpose.

-Discovering one's personal mission statement, how a person wishes to define themselve and live out their lives, is so important to one's perspective and can really help inspire motivation in life's hardest moments.

Some of my purpose with this page is to share insight into how art is a living ongoing process that enables us to connect with each other and across time. Which means we can better understand our history and where we are going as a society. Hopefully for the betterment as we engage in civics and use our human resources to bring forth a more humanitarian awareness for world peace. Art tells a story and finding meaning across a diverse nation and world requires practice of this science, which is the fine arts in this case.

03/27/2023

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Dates: May 5,12,19,26 @ 10:15-11:30 a.m.
Location: Auburn, NY
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