Lauren Raine

Lauren Raine is a painter, sculptor, mask artist, performance artist, author, and choreographer with work in international private, public, and museum collections. She has been the Director of Rites of Passage Gallery, a Center for Transformative Arts, in Berkeley, California. She is a recipient of the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center Fellowship for the year 2007.

Education

Raine holds a BFA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA in painting and cross-disciplinary arts from the University of Arizona (1987). She has attended Otis Art Institute and the New England Institute for Art Therapy. She learned to make "Commedia dell'arte" masks, and was introduced to the shamanic use of masks, at the New York Renaissance Festival in 1989. In 2000 she went to Bali, where she studied with master maskmaker Ida Bagus Anom.

Exhibitions, classes and performances

Raine was an exhibitor at the Symposium for Art and the Invisible Reality at Rutgers University (organized by Dr. Rafael Montanez Ortiz) in 1989. She began a mask business in 1991 after winning "Best of Show" at the Mill Ave Arts Festival in Tempe, Arizona, and in 1992 designed a line of mythic masks for festivals and other events in the Neo-pagan community. In 1999 she opened Rites of Passage Gallery in Berkeley, California, and created "The Masks of the Goddess" for the Reclaiming Community's Spiral Dance. In 2000 she made masks for "Hungry Ghosts of Albion", and both made masks for and collaborated on "Tragos", a film and play by Antero Alli. After studying with master maskmaker Ida Bagus Anom in Bali in 2000, she produced (with Anom and others) collaborative works that were exhibited (and performed) at Buka Creati Gallery in Ubud.Fact|date=October 2007 She is on the faculty of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health [ [http://www.kripalu.org/presenter/V0000617 Kripalu faculty bio] ] .

Recent performances

* "Restoring the Balance", Nations Hall Theatre, Tucson, AZ. (With Katherine Josten and The Global Art Project)
* "Goddess" (choreographer Serene Zloof) - performance at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, New York, N.Y.
* "Woman With A Thousand Faces" at Black Box Theatre, Oakland, Ca.
* "The Divine Feminine" - ritual directed by Evelie Posche, at the University of Creation Spirituality, Oakland, Ca.
* "Invocation - The Spiral Dance", San Francisco, CA (2006)

Recent exhibitions

* "Masks of Transformation", University of Illinois Museum of Art, Carbondale, Illinois (Featured Speaker)
* "Masks, Visages & Veils" & "Sacred Icons - Symbolic and Ritual Objects" (2005 & 2006) Artisans Center of Virginia
* "Liminal", 2-person show at Turn of the Century Gallery, Berkeley, Calif. (with Rye Hudak)
* "Sacred Mask - Sacred Space", MUSE Gallery, Tucson, Az., (with Catherine Nash)
* Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

Bibliography

* "The Song of Medusa" (with Duncan Eagleson) (2000) Infinity Publishing ISBN 0-7414-0484-2

Articles

* [http://www.awakenedwoman.com/masks.htm "The Masks of the Goddess" - Awakened Woman, November 11, 2001]
* [http://threadsofspiderwoman.blogspot.com "Threads of the Spiderwoman" - journal by Lauren Raine]
* [http://www.spiralgoddess.com/Masks.html "Making Sacred Masks" - Goddess 2000 Project, Spiral Goddess]
* [http://www.awakenedwoman.com/lauren_raine.htm "Dancing the Masque of the Goddess" - Awakened Woman July 1, 2002]
* [http://www.butterflyspirit.org/stories/lamariposa.html "La Mariposa" - Butterfly Gardeners' Association]

References

* [http://www.divineanimal.com/apriledition/contributors.htm The Divine Animal]

Notes

External links

* http://www.rainewalker.com/laurenraine.htm
* http://www.spiralgoddess.com/Masks.html