Workshop Presentation:
Arts Potential to Save Lives through Connection and Healing
Art and the written word have been used to reveal our true selves and heal our souls for centuries. Part of Michelle’s presentation will be a video she created as an artist/parent in response to working through the trauma of her daughter, McKenzie’s, substance use disorder.
Michelle will touch upon how creating can help transform traumatic events into empowering learning experiences. Looking within yourself using the creative process to bring you face to face with your truth. That truth will set you free once you have acknowledged it, felt it, shared it and then let it go.
Bio:
Michelle is a contemporary painter/printmaker, writer/blogger and plans to launch a podcast this year entitled “An Artist’s Journey”. She has been creating art professionally since the 1980’s.
Ms. Lindblom spent 24 plus years as a College Professor of Visual Art. During her tenure, she taught drawing, painting, coordinated the campus art galleries, served as the department chair for Arts and Communication and operated her own studio/gallery.
Ms. Lindblom left higher education in 2015 and now works as a full time artist in her Bend, Oregon studio. Michelle’s work has been exhibited all over the United States. Ms. Lindblom loves traveling and draws inspiration from her journeys and the people she has met, taught and visited along the way. Michelle currently displays her work at Red Chair Gallery, Bend, OR and Angi Wildt Gallery, Seaside, OR and is a member of the High Desert Art League (Bend) and the National Association of Women Artists (NYC).
“My work reveals my subconscious and the continuous dialogues with my psyche. I am guided by intuition with no preconceived ideas of what I will create.” Since learning of her daughter’s substance use disorder in 2016, Michelle’s work has taken on a more expansive role. She is using art, writing, blogging and soon, podcasting, as mediums to illustrate the healing and connections that can be made through the creative process.