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 dog 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.
Beth will be collaborating with Celeste Joy Greer Walker who has embraced a variety of mediums to express the dark ironic core of the divine feminine. Celeste Joy is dedicated to Upcycling art about 70% of each peace or installation is made from recycled salvaged material.
Celeste Joy currently calls the Bay Area home but has lived all over Southern and Central California. She received her BA in digital media from Otis College of Art and Design and completed her MA at California Institute of Integral Studies majoring in Women Sacred Arts and Healing. celestejoyg@gmail.com