From 1/15/2022 Presentation at Conference on Current Pagan Studies at Claremont School of Theology - "The Art of Lauren Raine". Retrospective of 50 years of cross disciplinary work of artist Lauren Raine MFA

1. (by Lauren Raine)
………a Work in Progress

2. “Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices
of (those) who can see alternatives to how we live now. Who
can see through our fear-stricken society …..to other ways of
being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.
We will need (those) who can remember freedom—poets,
visionaries; the realists of a larger reality.”
Ursula K. Leguin

3. Rooted, entwined,
spiraling snake-shedding
….. motifs since 1970

4. Starhawk & The Spiral Dance & The Goddess

5. Ancient Mysteries

6. The Rainbow Bridge Oracle

9. Leaving Academia to Join the Circus!
the Renfairs……..

10. Populating the World
with
Green Men

11. Masks are Open Art Forms:
They INVITE Story And Give Voice to Persona
“Mask for the Crossing of Dimensions”
Shape Shifter Masks

12. We are the Myth Makers of our time.
So, what are the stories we’re telling?

13. The Masks
of the Goddess
Project
1999 – 2019
“Temple Masks”
in celebration of the
multi-cultural Divine Feminine.

14. Gratitude to Collaborators and their Communities:
who brought the masks to life,
and gave them Voice and Story.

15. The Weavers Mask

16. Quan Yin
Tara

17. Amaterasu & Bridgit

18. The Virgin of Guadalupe
Hagia Sophia

19. Sedna

20. Spider Woman

21. Numina
“Masks for the Elemental Powers”
In Collaboration with Ann Waters
& “The Awakening”
(2013)

22. Pele The River Face The Bone Goddess
Numina Masks

23. “Restoring the Balance”
Community Theatre 2004
Muse Community Arts Center
Tucson, Arizona

25. Spider Woman’s
Hands
A Contemporary Exploration
of the Legend of the Spider Woman

27. “The Universe is made of
stories,
not atoms”
…..Muriel Rukeyser
“Tse Che Nako,
Thought Woman, the Spider
is sitting in her room
thinking up a good story:
I’m telling you the story
She is thinking.”
…..Keresan Pueblo Proverb

28. Fraying of the Web:
For the 6th Extinction

29. “To the Hopi,
weaving is an act that uncovers
a pattern that is already there.”
John Loftin,
Religion and Hopi Life

30. Aldon B. Dow Fellowship at Northwood University,
and Midland Arts Center,
Midland, Michigan

31. Creative Spirit Art Center,
Midland, Michigan

32. Henry Luce III Center for Arts and Religion
at Wesley Theological Seminary,
Washington, DC

33. Our Lady of the Shards
ICONS for Re-membering the lost,
rising from the Shards of the past

34. Hecate
The Memory Keeper

35. Shrines for the
Ancestral Midwives
Cosmic Birth
Earth Birth

36. The Weaver of Dreams

38. The Black Madonna:
Isis, Sacred places,
and the Alchemy
of the dark, rooted Earth

39. Earth Shrines:
“Rooted and Woven”
Reflections on Gaia
& Interdependency
2005 – present

40. Gaia

41. Earth Icons
for
Co - Creation

42. Found Artifacts
Ipark Residency 2005
Persephone Sacred work
Reliquary for the Flight
of a Phoenix

43. Found at Chalice Garden, Glastonbury, UK
On Pilgrimage 2018
The Great Conversation
"Speak to the Earth and it shall teach thee"
Job 12:8

44. Dedicated to all those who are
Realists of a larger Reality