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My name is Wenona Gardner. I am enrolled in the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohicans tribe. I am an writer and an artist.
In May 26, 2000 I created the Artist's Way Circle of Milwaukee group and have moderated it for over four years and still do now. I have musical experience for ten years. I studied violin for 2 years, saxophone for 1 year, and clarinet for 8 years. I performed in several bands, orchestras, and musicals. I also played the Native American flute and was the lead singer for the Oneida Intertribal Singers of Milwaukee. I obtained a business & management and arts & humanities degree from Alverno College in '95.
Two years later, I mustered up the courage to dare to live out my creative dreams...I went back to college at UW-Milwaukee to study drawing and painting post graduate. I began to play my Native American flute publically in the park. I helped paint a mural and got my picture in the paper! These were so exciting to me!!
While I have had a long background learning music, it was only when I began to sing native songs and play the Native American flute that I began to feel the most benefits. I find myself talking about Native American culture more and it also shows up more often in my Morning Pages. I find more joy in exploring native themes in my drawings too. Indigenous artistic expressions are definitely the best medicine for healing to me!
WHAT I AM CREATING NOW?
I still love making collages with rubber cement (I love the smell of rubber cement. lol), looking at crazy quilts, star quilts, stained glass rosettes, and crystals. While I still do art, music, jewelry making with beads, and dance...I am trying to put more focus on my writing. Musically, I recorded my own mp3 singing the "Rose." I want to record me singing in more mp3s. I have my Azure Breeze Gallery website of drawings, paintings, and poetry at: http://www.geocities.com/azurebreeze
I created the Artist's Way Circle of Milwaukee inspired by my experience using Julia Cameron's' The Artist's Way. The group of 185 members will celebrate it's five year anniversary May 26, 2005. You can check it out at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artist...cleofmilwaukee
In May 26, 2000 I created the Artist's Way Circle of Milwaukee group and have moderated it for over four years and still do now. I have musical experience for ten years. I studied violin for 2 years, saxophone for 1 year, and clarinet for 8 years. I performed in several bands, orchestras, and musicals. I also played the Native American flute and was the lead singer for the Oneida Intertribal Singers of Milwaukee. I obtained a business & management and arts & humanities degree from Alverno College in '95.
Two years later, I mustered up the courage to dare to live out my creative dreams...I went back to college at UW-Milwaukee to study drawing and painting post graduate. I began to play my Native American flute publically in the park. I helped paint a mural and got my picture in the paper! These were so exciting to me!!
While I have had a long background learning music, it was only when I began to sing native songs and play the Native American flute that I began to feel the most benefits. I find myself talking about Native American culture more and it also shows up more often in my Morning Pages. I find more joy in exploring native themes in my drawings too. Indigenous artistic expressions are definitely the best medicine for healing to me!
WHAT I AM CREATING NOW?
I still love making collages with rubber cement (I love the smell of rubber cement. lol), looking at crazy quilts, star quilts, stained glass rosettes, and crystals. While I still do art, music, jewelry making with beads, and dance...I am trying to put more focus on my writing. Musically, I recorded my own mp3 singing the "Rose." I want to record me singing in more mp3s. I have my Azure Breeze Gallery website of drawings, paintings, and poetry at: http://www.geocities.com/azurebreeze
I created the Artist's Way Circle of Milwaukee inspired by my experience using Julia Cameron's' The Artist's Way. The group of 185 members will celebrate it's five year anniversary May 26, 2005. You can check it out at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artist...cleofmilwaukee
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