ART & LISTENING for kids at Healing Force of the Universe is returning for the month of September beginning Monday, September 2, and running through September 30. Our teacher, Samantha Simmons, walks kiddos through some fundamental elements of visual art like color, line, pattern, and form while listening to some choice albums in our beautiful record store. Kids engage in both their auditory and visual senses while exploring their creativity.

Accepting up to 10 students for this session.

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About our teacher:

Samantha Simmons (B. 1986, Maryland, USA) - link to website

Samantha is a sound installation artist and composer based in Berlin and Los Angeles.  She was a resident DJ on WFMU freeform radio for 7 years working with sound collage, and she currently practices installation and composition. Her specific focus is collaborative sound installation and hybrid composition, or music that blends various genres as a way to deconstruct hierarchies.

Coming from a painting and drawing background, she considers listening through a visual lens.  When she works with sound, she has a specific idea of how the soundscape could create an aesthetic. Her work pulls from sound memories to create overarching themes inspired by distance, locations, weather, glass, heat, cold, airlines, trains, food, fog, animals, water, and shopping malls.  She is interested in exploring the elemental in sound, and to expand on recurring themes of place, weather, and natural elements that she finds in it. 

Samantha is a recipient of the DAAD Performing Arts Award in 2021, and the MusikFonds Award in 2022

Email us with questions: kiddos@healingforcerecors.com

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