My Creative Travels Fundraiser Art Event in Photos

Thank you to everyone who made this event possible. I believe art is a universal language that transcends all language barriers (whether it be differences linguistically & culturally, whether it be differences potically & socially, whether it be differences spiritually & faith based, whether it be struggles emotionally & relationally with self and others). Creativity is an amazing expression of one's world view and inner voice that needs to be heard...and it can be the element that opens conversation. Thank you to everyone who came and shared in this conversation with me and heard my heart, viewed my art, experienced our live painting/dance performance, and spent time connecting with me and others. Thank you to everyone who contributed and continues to contribute to the support of these creative travels and adventures that I'm on (whether financially and/or through prayer and encouragement). Wherever I go I take you with me. You are all just as much a part of "painting on people's lives" as I am...together we are loving on people throughout this world in creative ways. Thank you. May we love much and love well.

A Fundraising Art Show for my Creative Travels

Sunday June 17, 2012

The Woman of Steel Gallery

3640 W. Chinden, Garden City (Boise) ID, 83714

3pm sharp to 5pm

Free to Come

Semi-Formal

Catered Food & Wine

Live Jazz Music by Rex&Beverly

Live Painting&Dance by Lisa Marten&Lukas Evergreen

My paintings on display&for sale

Chance to pre-order/pre-pay for giclee prints of selected paintings

Silent Auction of a painting

Raffle drawing of the painting created live

Opportunity to help support my creative art travels

2 FULL HOURS OF ART & ENTERTAINMENT

Sex Dreams Erased By Water: a Marten/Evergreen & Company Production

se libre: BE FREE!

Sex Dreams Erased By Water

a live avant-garde performance at The Knitting Factory for Art in the Bar VI in Boise, Idaho

By: Marten/Evergreen and Company

Lisa Marten

Lukas Evergreen

Gonzalo Valdez

Krysta Nebeker

 

sex dreams...exploitations, addictions, those things that trap us in our minds and in our past...fears, rejections, those parts of us that keep us in isolation and bondage...lies, trappings, seductions, those triggers that hinder us from receiving Truth, Love, Beauty, and Life...those things that keep us from being who we really were meant to be...from being Free.

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  “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”-Sigmund Freud

about the performance:  This piece is the vulnerable exorcism of a man trapped in his mind. As the world goes on by, his world is being rocked by inspiration, desire and of course, lust. The man must break through the chains of his underdeveloped psychosocial self and find truth. Thankfully truth is Divinely guided by love and he must choose to live or die.

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hiding within...yet always covered by Divinity

dreaming and waking up

wrestling with the process

relinquishing to the process

embracing the process of cleansing

clinging to God, receiving Love

allowing the self to let go and receive Truth





experiencing something new to come forth from within that is beautiful

releasing by embracing Life and Love

cleansing Love pouring forth like a waterfall bringing freedom

experiencing freedom in heart, mind, body, and soul

The struggle through the process to receive True Freedom is worth it!

BE FREE!

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about Marten/Evergreen & Company: As a performing arts company, we have the desire, as most artists of any medium do, to connect with viewers on a given level of reality and/or fantasy. Progression plays a large factor and obstacle in this goal in being original, unique, and respected.

photography by Starry Night Media

Art in the Bar 6

52 local Boise artists under one roof!!!

ART IN THE BAR VI

The BIGGEST all local art show EVER!!!

sponsored by Dead Bird Gallery & Framing.

Saturday June 9

Noon-10pm

 The Knitting Factory Concert House downtown Boise

FREE to all ages

Open bar with ID

Lots of opportunity to connect with our local Boise art community.

Myself and Lukas Evergreen will be there sharing a booth inside once again to display and sell our art (we both will have NEW work at this show).

AND...

Marten/Evergreen & Company are back for another live performance!!!

We will be peforming an all NEW LIVE production of choreographed dance, painting & music in the alley in front of The Knitting Factory. Our performance will be one you won't want to miss. We should be performing around 5pm or 6pm (not quite sure about exact time yet as of writing this post). If you're planning on being there for the performance, let me know day of and I can give you the exact time we'll be performing.

Hope to see you!

Go Paint on People's Lives

After only being back a couple of weeks from eastern Europe...I'm heading back out on the artistic trail to continue my creative adventures. This time I'm traveling to the last frontier: the wilderness of Alaska!

I've been asked to by a college friend to come up and connect with some artists and musicians and see what kinds of creative fun we get ourselves into. So once again I'm packing my paintbrushes and with my pack on my back I'm setting out to go love people all around the world (even in the remotest places of the United States).

What an amazing adventure I'm on!!! I love love love what I get to do!!!

Keep watch at Traveling Artist for updates, stories and photos as I head north to hit the trails, and wilderness, and the tundra, and the mountains, and the waters, and the coffee houses of the wilds of Alaska and continue partnering with God and others to paint on people's lives.

everyone gets to play!

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."-Bilbo

3 backpacks. That's a picture of my bags packed and ready to go. The black one on the right is the one with my clothes for the trip. It will be a carry-on for my air travel and will easily ride on my back (thanks to fellow Seattle-ite and world known travel guide, Rick Steves). It has ventured to far away lands with me before and has been a trusted friend. The little one in front is the one with my journal and paints and books to be close to me as my one personal item. It's excited to accompany me, having traveled countless times to places all over this big blue marble as an extension of me. The one on the left with the red & blue coloring is the one experiencing it's first journey. It is stuffed with a huge variety of new art supplies for the purpose of "painting on people's lives". It will be checked into the cargo hold for the crossing journey. It's the one with the treasure awaiting to land and be freely given, poured out, and lavished as an offering of love. Myself and the other two backpacks will at some point return to the States to continue our creative adventures together, but this third one...it will stay in Lithuania (where I am traveling to this month)...it will get to experience it's own adventures with a new owner, for it has a different path to hike. Yes, "everyone gets to play"...even backpacks.

To follow my artistic travel and creative adventures in art ministry, go to my blogsite where I post about and document my trips: Traveling Artist

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Next trip: Lithuania