The Midwives bring you
Julia Cameron's
The Artist's Way
Facilitated by Midwives Alum, Amy Schwabauer
Feeling stuck in your artistic practice? Feel like you don’t even have an artistic practice? Searching for that extra boost of motivation and inspiration? Then join the “Artist's Way” Group and start your journey on a path towards “Higher Creativity”.
I’ll be your guide on this artistic 12-week journey as outlined in Julia Cameron’s Book, “The Artist's Way”. Together we will work through each chapter, doing exercises to regain your artistic purpose. Along the way you will learn a multitude of different tools to help you break through your artistic blocks, refill your well of inspiration, and find a new way of creating your art from a place of abundance. By the end of this 12 week program you’ll find how to reclaim your artistry and to let go of your artistic insecurities, fears, and self doubts. Working through the Artist's Way is a powerful and transformational experience for artists that helps us grow and change, reminding us of the world of possibility that lies before us if we are only willing to take the first baby step.
The artist journey can be very lonely. The value of working through this book in a group is for accountability and having someone to push you forward even when you want to give up.
Meet Amy
The loneliest moments of my life always seem to happen in rooms full of people. The longing to be seen by others as our truest selves in all our raw, ugly, mediocre, beautiful, and complex glory is the heartbeat behind my work.
For me, the experience of laughter and loneliness go hand in hand. Comedy is my way of building a relationship with my audience. Laughter is essential in my process and performance as it creates a safe space for both imaginative play and mourning. I give the audience the freedom to laugh and the security to cry as I address dark topics such as death, grief, addiction, and mental illness .
I am a comedic actor, playwright, solo performer, and toy theater creator.
My work is inspired by curiosity, vulnerability, laughter, whimsical ephemera, ancestry, and play. My productions vary widely in form, scale, and process, ranging from the miniature to the full proscenium stage.
I create and build miniature worlds of nostalgia for toy theater productions. I use improv to develop characters and write plays. I also write from my personal experience of loneliness and grief to create vulnerable realities for my solo performances.
My hope is for my audiences to see the universality in the “dark” moments of all our lives. That they recognize no one is spared the pain and feelings of being human. Most importantly, that despite all the darkness, we can survive the hardest moments of our lives and still find magic in this world.
www.amyschwabauer.com
The Details:
WHERE: This group meets virtually on Zoom
WHEN: Meetings are Sunday evenings from 7pm - 9pm CT (Meetings will get shorter as we progress through the 12 weeks, but please block off 2 hours per meeting just in case.)
MEETING DATES: Sunday, September 7th - Sunday, November 23
ORIENTATION: Thursday, September 4th 7pm - 9pm CT
COST: Sliding Scale $300 - $900; payable in one lump sum, or broken into three installments
MISSING A MEETING: It is absolutely fine if you miss a meeting! To respect everyone’s privacy and to encourage sharing, we will not record meetings. However, the facilitator will email the agenda for each meeting to the group and we encourage you to reach out to a buddy in the group to catch up on what you missed.