labore est orare - to work is to pray
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Curriculum Vitae
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Recent Public Art Commissions
Snoqualmie Point Park Orientation Table
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Above: Download recent article about orientation table in Alpine Lakes Wilderness Society Newsletter, see page 2.
Below: Download full color pdf image.
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CONTACT
Email: denita dot benyshek at gmail dot com
Send message through personal page on RedefineGod:
http://www.redefinegod.com/profile/WhiteHorse
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News - continued
2008
The 25th Annual International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternate Modes of Healing, Santa Sabina Center, San Rafael, CA
Moderator, Art, Consciousness, and Spirituality, ongoing international discussion: http://www.redefinegod.com/forum/topic/show?id=855906%3ATopic%3A30131
Assistant Editor, Psychoscience: The Journal of Mind and Spirit
Seclef Hoetzel Award, Council for Higher Education
Tuition Grant, Saybrook Graduate School
Society for Shamanic Practitioners
Full scholarship to conference in Santa Fe, NM
"Creative Opportunity within Creative Block," lecture to Creative Studies Department., Saybrook
2007
Orientation Table Artwork for Snoqualmie Point Park
Commissioned by Alpine Lakes Protection Society
Park project by Mountains to Sound Greenway
Seclef-Hoetzel Award, Counsel for Higher Education
USA Funds Scholarship
Rudy Melone Presidential Scholarship, Saybrook
The 25th Annual International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternate Modes of Healing, Santa Sabina Center, San Rafael, CA
Moderator, Art, Consciousness, and Spirituality, ongoing international discussion: http://www.redefinegod.com/forum/topic/show?id=855906%3ATopic%3A30131
Assistant Editor, Psychoscience: The Journal of Mind and Spirit
Seclef Hoetzel Award, Council for Higher Education
Tuition Grant, Saybrook Graduate School
Society for Shamanic Practitioners
Full scholarship to conference in Santa Fe, NM
"Creative Opportunity within Creative Block," lecture to Creative Studies Department., Saybrook
2007
Orientation Table Artwork for Snoqualmie Point Park
Commissioned by Alpine Lakes Protection Society
Park project by Mountains to Sound Greenway
Seclef-Hoetzel Award, Counsel for Higher Education
USA Funds Scholarship
Rudy Melone Presidential Scholarship, Saybrook
News
The Goddess Cycle:
A Ritual of Renewal
February 2, 2010
Berkeley, California
Free!
Celebrating Imbolc, the return of the light of spring, 1st Tuesday in February. A beautiful, mystical, and meaning filled ritual performance presented by The Fellowship of the Spiral Path/Gateway and a collaboration of artists.
Words (libretto) by Lezlie Kinyon, musical composition and arrangement by Lauren Renee Hotchkiss, art by Denita Benyshek, with Mark O'Neil, Destiny, Theodosia, Michael Schemel, Roberta Gould, Hallie Frazer, Diana Rowan, Carol Jaron.
Special appearances by Chorus, Supplicant, Tiresias, Forest God, Iris, Medea, Athena, Spider Woman, Calypso, and The Queen of Heaven.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
8:00pm - 11:00pm
The Fellowship hall of Unitarian Universalists
1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita),
Berkeley, CA 94709
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=193238333752&ref=mf#/event.php?eid=171011113330&ref=mf
The Annual International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing was founded in 1984 by Dr. Ruth-Inge Heinze to preserve and further the integrity of shamanism and share the latest insights in the field of alternative healing.
2009 Conference - Shamans of the 21st Century
Santa Sabina Center, San Rafael, California
Saturday, September 5, 9:00 am to
Monday, September 7, 4:00 pm
Labor Day Weekend
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2009 Conference - Shamans of the 21st Century
Santa Sabina Center, San Rafael, California
Saturday, September 5, 9:00 am to
Monday, September 7, 4:00 pm
Labor Day Weekend
.
July 21 - 26, 2009
Starwood XXIX Festival, Sherman, NY
We welcome you to the Starwood Festival; a celebration of diversity and alternatives in belief systems, lifestyles, and spirituality. Here you will never find a struggle to define which truth is the "real" truth, but rather a community of explorers fresh from their many journeys through realms both alien and familiar, flush with discovery, eager to share the wisdom they have found. Here are the children of the quest, their vision neither obscured by the forest nor are their minds diverted by the numbering trees, but peering upward and outward in wonder, beyond the night sky to the distant stars themselves.
The Starwood Festival is the largest Pagan/Magickal/Consciousness gathering in North America (perhaps the world). Starwood features classes and workshops by both locally and internationally acclaimed artists and authors. For fine music, dance, drumming, poetry, and film there is no equal to Starwood, currently held near Lake Chataqua at the Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman New York. See for more information:
http://www.rosencomet.com/starwood/2009/index.php
Starwood presentations:
Art Audience as Shamanic Society
Denita Benyshek's current research investigates the art audience as shamanic community. Denita will define shamanic community, examine how individual and societal needs are met through art, reframe attendance of art events as ritual, provide a brief overview of recent research on the healing power of art, and share personal stories. This presentation will enhance your ability to engage with art, find meaning, and achieve a state of mystical union and transcendence through art.
The Contemporary Artist as Shaman
When 82 year old anthropologist, Dr. Ruth-Inge Heinze, taught her last seminar on shamanism at Saybrook Graduate School, Denita Benyshek was among her fortunate students. Knowledge, conveyed through lectures and through a series of visions, revealed many similarities between shamans and artists. Using Dr. Heinze’s definition of a shaman, Denita will demonstrate how artists may qualify as shamans. The discussion is grounded in over three decades of experience as a professional artist, which provides autobiographical evidence of shamanic experiences during artistic creativity. Research, from psychology, anthropology, sociology, creative studies, art history, and religious studies, is also considered towards constructing an interdisciplinary and multicultural theory of the artist as shaman. Topics will include calling, initiation, androgyny, shamanic journey, healing, integration, and an alternate, nonpathological, model of artistic creativity.
Starwood XXIX Festival, Sherman, NY
We welcome you to the Starwood Festival; a celebration of diversity and alternatives in belief systems, lifestyles, and spirituality. Here you will never find a struggle to define which truth is the "real" truth, but rather a community of explorers fresh from their many journeys through realms both alien and familiar, flush with discovery, eager to share the wisdom they have found. Here are the children of the quest, their vision neither obscured by the forest nor are their minds diverted by the numbering trees, but peering upward and outward in wonder, beyond the night sky to the distant stars themselves.
The Starwood Festival is the largest Pagan/Magickal/Consciousness gathering in North America (perhaps the world). Starwood features classes and workshops by both locally and internationally acclaimed artists and authors. For fine music, dance, drumming, poetry, and film there is no equal to Starwood, currently held near Lake Chataqua at the Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman New York. See for more information:
http://www.rosencomet.com/starwood/2009/index.php
Starwood presentations:
Art Audience as Shamanic Society
Denita Benyshek's current research investigates the art audience as shamanic community. Denita will define shamanic community, examine how individual and societal needs are met through art, reframe attendance of art events as ritual, provide a brief overview of recent research on the healing power of art, and share personal stories. This presentation will enhance your ability to engage with art, find meaning, and achieve a state of mystical union and transcendence through art.
The Contemporary Artist as Shaman
When 82 year old anthropologist, Dr. Ruth-Inge Heinze, taught her last seminar on shamanism at Saybrook Graduate School, Denita Benyshek was among her fortunate students. Knowledge, conveyed through lectures and through a series of visions, revealed many similarities between shamans and artists. Using Dr. Heinze’s definition of a shaman, Denita will demonstrate how artists may qualify as shamans. The discussion is grounded in over three decades of experience as a professional artist, which provides autobiographical evidence of shamanic experiences during artistic creativity. Research, from psychology, anthropology, sociology, creative studies, art history, and religious studies, is also considered towards constructing an interdisciplinary and multicultural theory of the artist as shaman. Topics will include calling, initiation, androgyny, shamanic journey, healing, integration, and an alternate, nonpathological, model of artistic creativity.
May 27 - June 2, 2009
International Society for Shamanistic Research,
Presenter, Biennial Conference, Anchorage Alaska.
http://www.folkscene.hu/magzines/shaman/index.htm
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/anthropology/conference.cfm
International Society for Shamanistic Research,
Presenter, Biennial Conference, Anchorage Alaska.
http://www.folkscene.hu/magzines/shaman/index.htm
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/anthropology/conference.cfm
Featured Artist in Coreopsis:
an online Journal of Myth and Theatre
Spring Issue, 2009
Welcome, Onlooker.
I have gifts for you, brought from the frozen arctic, passionate Slavs, and animist farmers. Please enter my artwork.
Stay for awhile. What do you find?
In the light of your focused, extended gaze, you leave sensate reality and a trance develops that will take you to a visionary realm. Slow, breathe, open, and be receptive. You see images, textures, and colors merging with the images of your memories, the textures of your emotions, and the colors of your mind.
As you form relationship, between yourself and the art, you are engaged in a creative process. Waves of impressions arrive while the boundaries of self begin to disintegrate. Waves of color and light enter you to dance within. The dance is ancient and new, a troupe of plankton in the ocean, and a flickering trail winding through synapses. Follow that trail. Whatever you discover is gradually integrated into a changed you. Now, you are the work of art – a subtly yet definitely renewed self.
http://sites.google.com/site/mythandtheatre/Home/spring-2009-vol-1-no-1/featured-art-and-artist-jinka-denitabenyshek-zavanova
WinterStar 26: Tribal Spirituality, Presenter, "Contemporary Artists as Shamans" and "Healing Arts", Atwood Lake Resort, OH, www.rosencomet.com
Tuition Grant, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco
Tuition Grant, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco