Her Flowering: Clay Self-Portraits For Resilience

August 1

Teachers: Melissa Lafontaine
Start Time: 5:30 PM
End Time: 7:00 PM

FREE!!!

For Female Expressing Bodies: Caregivers & Students 6th grade and up.

First come, first served.

Join Earth Within Girls (EWG) for a girls empowerment workshop inspired by the exhibition Body Politic: Christa Carleton And Tonja Torgerson. Tap into your innate capacity to rise above collective body shaming and reproductive health challenges. Ground yourself with authentic movement and plant remedies while crafting a clay-based self-portrait that will 'bloom' with intention. Please note this is wet-clay project that does not require firing. Earth Within Girls is a nonprofit founded in 2020 that works to inspire adolescent girls and women to connect their internal cycles to the natural environment by providing accessible, prevention-based hormonal literacy tools so they can thrive.

Melissa Lafontaine

Melissa Lafontaine is on a beautiful lifelong journey of connecting with plants and her own inner wisdom as she has healed from sexual violence and chronic illness. In 2020, she founded Earth Within Girls (EWG), a non-profit organization that works inspire adolescent girls and women to connect their internal cycles to the natural environment by providing accessible, prevention-based hormonal literacy tools so they can thrive. EWG is an extension of MA in Environmental Studies: ‘Cultivating Earth Centered Children through Plant-Based Education’ at the University of Montana and her studies in Western Herbalism with Green Path Herb School. Melissa also creates natural floral designs at her sustainable floral design studio Earth Within Flowers. Melissa is at her fullest while playing in her floral garden oasis, hiking and kayaking with her pup Yarrow and dancing, singing and laughing as often as possible.

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