Spiritweavers

Josie was born into a Mexican-Cuban family rooted in the healing arts of Curanderia, shape shifting and clairvoyance. At an early age she was introduced to the practice of Curanderismo, Folk Herbalism, as a way of life. Today, Josie is a modern day Curandera. Her role as a Yerbera, one who works with herbs, is to share her knowledge with depth, joy, and clarity. She has created various programs and retreats to share Curandersimo, Reiki, and other healing modalities to empower others in self-healing. As a Modern Day Curandera, Josie is a bridge between tradition and modern practices. Sharing the essences of the ancestral ways in an open and contemporary way. Josie Castaneda will be offering Modern Curanderismo - Medicine Making & Limpias and holding Cacao...

31 December, 2023

  Karin is a fiber artist based in Orangevale California. She has worked in quilting, knitting, crochet, garment sewing and design, embroidery, and both synthetic and natural dyes. Her current project, spent flora, is an inclusive clothing line comprised of handdyed silk pieces. Mending is a natural extension of her reverence for the fiber arts that clothe our bodies. Karin Gillingham will be sharing Visible Mending....

31 December, 2023

Kelly (she/her) is a metalsmith, sewist, lover of crafts, mother and outdoor enthusiast. She has been metalsmithing for 10 years. Her passion for metals stemmed from a young age, being drawn to the art of jewelry making and metals. She has studied at Boulder School of Metals, Cabrillo College, and received a Bench Jeweler Technician certification at Revere Academy in San Francisco. She has worked in formal jewelry settings, repairing heirloom jewelry, as well as many hours in her home studio creating organic jewelry pieces inspired by nature. Since becoming a mother, she has explored a variety of other crafts and is enjoying combining her knowledge of metalsmithing into wearable art and practical art, such as spoons, bowls and combs. She currently lives in Northern California,...

02 January, 2024

Anna Liza McKeon has been a teacher for over twenty years. Always willing to pass on what what she has learned and experienced, the majority of those years have been spent teaching the art of Hula dancing and as of late herbalism and plant medicine. Anna Liza found inspiration for dance early in life. As a dancer, she began her journey with ‘Hula Halau he inoa no Ipu Lei Manu’, a dance troupe headed by Denise Bigelow. Driven by a need to expand her knowledge of the Polynesian arts, Anna Liza also sought teachers from different veins of dance and culture. Under the direction of Mapuhi Tuku Tekurio with “Tekurio Nui” she learned Tahitian drumming. With instruction from Mel Liufau of “Nonosina”, she learned the...

18 January, 2024

I am a Hawaiian Culturalist and have graduated in three different ancient lineages from Hawaiʻi. Kumu Hula Farrah Māhealani Linder carries the Tom Kaulaheaonamoku Hiona lineage from her Kumu, Auntie Noelani Mahana ʻO Kala McIntosh of Kaneʻohe Oʻahu. She continues her studies in ancient hula traditions on the Island of Molokai with Loea Hula Dj Pelekai of Pelekunu Valley, Molokai. In addition to her Hula lineage, she also holds the prestigious title of Alakaʻi Hulu of beloved Kumu Hulu Lokelani Reichert of Lei Hulu of California (Auntie Mary Kovich/Auntie Mary Kekuewa lineage) and is currently the Alakaʻi Hulu of Kumu Pilialoha Johnson and Kumu Robert Beebe of Lei Hulu O Hilo (Auntie Doreen Henderson’s lineage) in Hilo, Hawaii. In conjunction with these masteries of Hula and Lei Hulu,...

07 January, 2023

Phoebe Whipple is currently a senior at the Milwaukie Academy of the Arts. She’s a gifted fiber artist, with advanced skills in knitting, sewing, fiber spinning, mending and crochet. She’s completed the Summer camp counselor training program at Camp Namanu, and plays piano in her School Jazz Band, and viola and violin in her school Orchestra. A nature enthusiast, she hopes to study Environmental Science and Forestry in college next year. Phoebe was born in Portland, Oregon and has many family members who are very gifted makers, especially her paternal grandmother Susan Whipple, who is an incredible visual and fiber artist. Laura Whipple is the CEO and Co-founder of Scout Books, a B Corp Certified manufacturer of custom notebooks based in Portland, Oregon. Always the print...

04 January, 2024

  Lauralina Melendez Is an indigenous multidisciplinary artist from the island of Borikke, also knows as Puerto Rico). A mother of two, she creates and channels dolls from her garden studio y the ocean in the west coast of the island. Her and her family steward a 4 acre food forest. She is a witchy mama with ancestral intuition from a lineage of radical birkeepers and medicine women. Dollmaking was passed down by her abuela and she is blessed to share it as a tool of empowerment, and remembrance. Lauralina is a queer, polyamorous, devoted wife and home-maker, in partnership with her beloved for over 13 years, they have challenged all beliefs constructed and created a life aligned with the heart, practicing self directed education and...

10 January, 2024

Lauren Godla is a dance artist, director and movement educator based out of Gasquet, CA. She graduated with a BA in Exercise Biology and a Minor in Dance from UC Davis in 2012. She spent the following decade teaching yoga, performing, choreographing, studying movement and playing on rivers across the west. She co-directed and performed for FloorPlay Dance Comedy and toured and performed nationally with BANDALOOP, a Vertical Dance Company based out of Oakland. In 2020 she moved home to Del Norte County and in 2021 she founded DiRT & Glitter, an environmental art organization that creates site-specific productions. She has directed multiple site-specific performances along the Wild and Scenic Smith River, turning canyon walls into stages and audience members into paddlers. Her vertical dance...

12 May, 2024

Growing up on the coast of Miami, Florida, Lexy was always found in nature and in the ocean. She found the natural world most inspiring, and went on to receive a degree in Biology. After receiving her degree, she decided to dig deeper into the ways of her ancestors, learning more about plant medicine and primitive skills. Her grandparents were nomadic Romanian Romani’s (Gypsies). They migrated to New York during World War II. She found that her individuality was deeply seeded from her Grandmother and the Eastern European nomadic culture. Full of artistic drive and a love for medicinal plants and natural fibers, she went on to her own journey working with textiles and leather and creating herbal medicine. Lexy has worked in many fields,...

02 January, 2023

I am a painter and illustrator, creating medicine beings in imagined landscapes. I often find these works to contain oracular elements woven with the archetypes. It is my joy to bring forth imagery that has a peaceful and magical essence. My work is intuitive and a timeless process. I allow the spaciousness to reveal the direction a piece wants to go. I paint in oils, acrylics, and watercolor. I am deeply inspired by the natural world, which I experience daily living by a wild and free river in Southern Oregon. more of my work can be found at www.lindykehoe.com   Lindy will be leading and sharing her work in the Artist Village at both sessions...

13 May, 2024