RITUAL + RUINS

Andrea shares intuitive tools that she has gathered over the course of her life, that she uses in her art practice, to generate work. She shares rituals in connection to exhibitions, such as in her project, Unbounded Histories, at the Barnes Foundation in 2017. She also offers sessions and workshops to aid others in exploring creative generation of aspects of their lives. Her father taught her self hypnosis at age 6. A shaman who was a family friend taught her drum journeying at age 9. She also grew up learning dream work, shiatsu, and energy healing techniques. She has since worked with various teachers and healers globally. In between her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute, she was certified in shiatsu and energy healing. She still often trains with one of her favorite shamanic teachers and participates in dream work with one of her long-time intuitive practice teachers.

Andrea has been deepening her own intuitive skills throughout her life. She has worked with individuals alongside her art practice. In 2009, she began sharing the skills that she uses to generate her art work in related contexts, and is continually in the process of expanding her audience and toolbox.

In 1996 Andrea discovered that her intuition was as active at certain ruin sites as it had been with her clients. In 2015, she was invited to attend an artist residency in Sicily, Due South, where she felt she had direct connection at various pre-Greek, Greek, Roman temple ruin-sites. She has been returning annually and exploring other sites globally. She is now sharing her experience of these sites as portals for connection with the elements, spirit beings, and ancestors through tools of intuition, for personal and collective healing and transformation. Healing the human connection with the earth is always integrated into her group work.

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