Beth Benson calls herself an artmakerpoet. Beth is a Transformative Artist using every day art materials and sacred intention to weave webs of connection for the experience of her viewers. Beth earned her MA in Transformative Arts from the Department of Arts and Consciousness at John F. Kennedy University and went on to begin her PhD in Women’s Spirituality in the School of Philosophy & Religion at California Institute for Integral Studies. Beth is a serial gallery owner and arts experience facilitator. She opened her first gallery in Los Angeles in 1987, and has been a founder for unique arts experience spaces that include Talented Amazing People Gallery in Los Angeles, Artescape Studios in San Ramon, CA, The Art Well in Berkeley, CA, The Poet Treehouse in Jingletown, CA and her current effort, The Shaman’s Seaside Sanctuary, in Pacifica, California. Collaboration is Beth’s favorite art form. Born in Topeka, Kansas, she now lives with her partner and their Brew on the edge of a cliff, west of highway one, overlooking the whales, dolphins, surfers and sunsets that are her miracles to snap and share.
Artists Statement
For this installation I’m offering this show, I’ll either use what is already a part of the space or add some nails, and then weave a web of connection. Participant viewers can add their own intentions, inspirations, ideas, memories or confessions of “Risky Business” to the web that connects all women’s stories. The theatre will receive a record of what has been named in the web. Who knows what that will spark and inspire!