Aspen Art Museum

Have you ever wondered what your dreams mean? Wewer Keohane is the author of the book Artful Dreaming and holds PhDs in both Creative Arts and Depth Psychology. Inspired by Keohane’s work, join AAM Educator Vanessa Porras this Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MT) as she creates a symbol from her dreams and teaches you how to do the same!

Supplies:
Linoleum Block
Carving tools
Ink pad or printing ink
Paper
Wooden spoon

About the Artist:
Wewer was raised in Europe and worked in New York and D.C. before moving to Carbondale, Colorado in 1981 to pursue art and dream work. Wewer is the author of Artful Dreaming and holds PhDs in Creative Arts & Depth Psychology.

Wewer’s art is in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Brooklyn Library, Musee L’Eventail (Paris), and Powers Collection, among others. She is an Inaugural Fellow of the Aspen Art Museum and the founder of Art Saves Lives Scholarship Program at Carbondale Arts, Colorado. During the 2020 pandemic, she curated The Flash Card Project for Carbondale Arts, which included over 50 artists from Colorado and beyond.

Artist Statement:

“My quest is to make the invisible visible.” Through dreams, meditation, and journaling, I explore the subconscious for divine intervention and ideas that represent my authentic voice. Presently, I am working on a dream I named “Breakfast in Japan” using mixed media materials of old and discarded Japanese books, paints, used tea bags, and other found materials and papers to do my best to portray the felt sense of this truly life-changing dream.

—Wewer Keohane